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DIGNA
BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND, TEATRO DIGNIDAD PRESENTS,
DIGNA BY PATRICIA DAVIS
In this one woman play, Digna by Patricia Davis, Digna Ochoa y Placido, a Mexican indigenous human rights attorney, returns from the dead to address the public. She confronts the harrowing attacks she suffered at the hands of Mexican security forces in response to her defense of environmentalists, Zapatistas, and other indigenous people. Based on her life, this play explores the cost of resistance and its essential transformative power.
ABOUT DIGNA OCHOA Y PLACIDO(May 15, 1964October 19, 2001)
Digna Ochoa y Placido, born in Misantla, Veracruz, was a former nun and human rights attorney in Mexico. Ochoa defended those without access to representation. Her work included defending environmentalist in Guerrero, Zapatista guerrillas in Chiapas, and other indigenous communities. Ochoa took on controversial human rights cases challenging powerful governmental agencies, some of which included criminal charges against the military and other members of the state. On several occasions throughout her career, Ochao was kidnapped and tortured, forcing her to seek exile in the United States for 6 months prior to her death.
On October 19, 2001, at the age 37, Ochoa, was found shot dead in her Mexico City office. Despite evidence pointing to foul-play, including death threats, incidents of torture, a previous sexual assault, and multiple attempts on her life, Mexico City prosecutors have maintained that Ochoa committed suicide. The human rights community and Ochoas family, continues to reject the governments suicide theory, noting the inconsistencies and lack of transparency in the governments investigation and the weight of that evidence that point to the murder of one of the worlds most renowned human rights defenders.
ABOUT THE PLAYWRIGHT
Patricia Davis is a 2016 fellow in the Arena Stage play development program at Arena Stage in Washington, DC. Her plays include Alternative Methods (2010 NYC Fringe), Cleared (Kennedy Centers 2013 Page-to-Stage Festival); and After the Blood (presented at La Mama in 2014). Former director of the Guatemala Human Rights Commission, she is co-author, with Dianna Ortiz, of The Blindfolds Eyes. Her articles on foreign policy have been published by the North American Congress on Latin America, the Copenhagen Initiative for Central America and Mexico, and the Center for International Policy and have appeared in The Nation, Foreign Policy in Focus, Counterpunch, and Common Dreams. She also writes theater reviews for HowlRound. She has published a collection of poetry (The Water that Broke You, 2014). Her poetry work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Davis holds an MFA from American University and a BA from Carleton.
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