Alumnae
HAARTS 2025
Marcelina Chavira ’03
TV WRITER AND SKETCH COMEDIAN
Los Angeles, California
Marcelina Chavira ’03 was conceived during a ham-fueled moment of passion over an Easter Holiday weekend in Eagle Pass, Texas. She spent her formative years in Dallas scaring her friends' more conservative parents with her passion for NPR. Marcelina attended Bryn Mawr College and received an MA in Performance Studies from New York University. Her undergraduate and graduate work focused on post-colonial theory and the performance of identity and ethnicity. She then decided against a Ph.D. and moved to Los Angeles, California, to become a cartoon.
But cartoons are not real. So, she resigned herself to writing and has since found a wonderful home in sketch comedy. Marcelina writes, performs, and directs sketch comedy at Upright Citizen’s Brigade and The Pack Theater.
Marcelina’s pilot, Macho Libre, was included on The Black List inaugural Latinx TV List. Her credits include Amazon's Upload and Netflix’s Super Giant Robot Brothers. Most recently she has written for a Texas-based animated series on Hulu, which is scheduled to premiere in fall 2025.
The Hockaday School
Within the private school community, The Hockaday School is an independent college-preparatory day school for girls from grades PK–12 located in Dallas, Texas. Students realize their limitless potential through challenging academic curricula, arts, athletics, and extracurricular programs so that they are inspired to lead lives of purpose and impact.
The Hockaday School does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, ethnicity, creed, religion, sexual orientation, disability, or any other status protected by applicable law in the administration of its educational, admissions, financial aid, athletic, and other policies and programs.
The Hockaday School does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, ethnicity, creed, religion, sexual orientation, disability, or any other status protected by applicable law in the administration of its educational, admissions, financial aid, athletic, and other policies and programs.