Amalia Ortíz: I'm proud to say that all of the work that our theater produces is all written by the students. So I'm very much a facilitator, asking questions. We're given a theme. So we do research first. Right now, we're researching Dia de los Muertos, and then I ask a bunch of questions, like, "What do you have to say that's different from all the other media out there, about Dia de los Muertos?" And then we start writing, and really, it's the students dictating to me. I'm at a computer, and I do shape it. I do talk to them about the structure of a play-- the introduction, the exposition, introduction of the characters, rising action, main conflict, falling action, all of that-- so that, definitely, by the time they graduate high school, they are playwrights, and that is deliberate. Based on my experience as an actor, you can get frustrated waiting around, waiting for the callback, waiting to be cast, or you can create your own work, in your own voice, about topics you care most about. And that's the main idea that I try to impress upon all my students, is that they have agency to tell their own stories.