Alejandro Rodriguez

M.A. '11

Alejandro Rodriguez

Alejandro Rodriguez aka Lady Quesa’Dilla  --  is a native Tejan@ from the El Paso and Ciudad Juárez border. Their work is at the intersection of cultural identity, drag, and community. “The Brown Queen,” an autobiographical solo performance about growing up queer in the southwest, premiered at HERE Arts Center in the spring of 2010. Most recent solo performances include “My Tia Lupe” and “The Faggot in the Pink House”. Alejandro has performed in New York City, El Paso, Texas, Chiapas, Mexico, and Montreal, Canada. Alejandro is a member Bushwig, as Lady Quesa’Dilla, duties include Volunteer Coordinator for the annual Bushwig Festival.

Lady Quesa can also be found as a Youth Leadership Developer in the Youth Department at the LGBT Community Center in Manhattan, organizing the JEM (Jose Esteban Munoz) Mentoring program and the Youth Pride Chorus.

Lady Quesa holds a BA in Theater from Eugene Lang College The New School for Liberal Arts, and a MA in Performance Studies from Tisch School of the Arts, New York University, where he studied under José Esteban Muñoz, and is an alum of The Hemispheric Institute for Performance and Politics.

Lady Quesa’Dilla is a former Miss Coney Island Queen of Drag.

Education

New York University

Master of Arts - Performance Studies

New York, New York

 

Eugene Lang College - The New School

Bachelor of Arts - Theater

New York, New York

Other Special Tidbits

• Featured in "This Latinx Drag Queen's HIV Disclosure Brought Down the House in Brooklyn," The Body.

• Featured in "Chicana Drag Queen Lady Quesa'Dilla Counsels, Paves the Way for LGBT Youth," NBC News.

• Featured in "THE TWO TRIPS OF LADY QUESA’DILLA," Distintas Latitudes.

• Featured in "Drag Queen Lady Q Shares Moving Story About Her HIV Diagnosis and the Struggle to Love Her 'Queer Brown Body'," People.

• Lambda Literary Award for Best Anthology, 2016 (contributor)

• former Miss Coney Island Queen of Drag