Eva Cullen’s work as an actor, director, costumer, scenic designer and technical director for New Mexico State University’s theater department and the Las Cruces theatre company they cofounded are helping them take the next big step as a theater major: directing a full-length play on the main stage at NMSU.
“You have to be well rounded,” said Cullen, 20, a senior at NMSU who has been acting and singing since age 10.
Cullen will direct “that drive through monterey” next February. They are taking an independent study course at NMSU aligned with the play, and their research into the Chicano and feminist movements will contribute to Cullen’s vision for the production, they said. Playwright Matthew Paul Olmos wrote the play about his Mexican-American mother’s first love experience in 1971 Los Angeles…