Playwright and TV scribe Tanya Saracho has a new project in the works. She’s tapped to serve as showrunner on “Brujas,” a series being developed by indie producer and financer Big Beach. Deadline reports that the series centers on four Chicago-based Afro-Caribbean/Latinx women and explores “the relationships and community born out of the growing identification with the Bruja movement.”
According to the source, “Brujas” will “use the brujería counter-culture as a foundation. The brujería culture is a means for Latinx feminists to reconnect with their heritage through music, style, nightlife, and art. It’s a powerful return to indigenous practices and a reclamation of feminine strength.”
Saracho will pen the series and serve as an exec producer.
“Obviously I’m obsessed with women and Latina women,” Saracho has said of the themes in her writing. “I think I’m on my seventh or eighth all-Latina play. I’m really comfortable in that world. So, if I had to say what I’m interested in exploring, it’s that — class, and how it affects Latinas and people of color.” She’s revealed, “I started the TV thing so I could keep going with theater. But I’m loving TV — it reaches so many people, even more than film; it’s like art for the masses — if you think it’s art. And that is magic — you can really affect perception.”
Saracho’s plays include “Fade,” “The Tenth Muse,” and “Song for the Disappeared.” “How to Get Away with Murder,” “Looking,” and “Devious Maids” are among her TV credits. She has a series in the works at Starz. “Vida” centers on two Mexican-American sisters who make a shocking discovery about their mother. “Vida” received a series order in September.
