Esther is Honduran and proud; She’s a graduate from Teatro Prometeo’s Conservatory at Miami Dade College. Then received her BFA in theatre arts from Oral Roberts University in Oklahoma.
She translates plays from English to Spanish and vice versa. She’s taught Rasaboxes Jr. for Syracuse Stage in NY and directed for the Fort Worth Fringe and Newark Arts Festival. She recently translated subtitles for the Emmy-winning documentary Eat Your Catfish By Noah Arjomand. Some of her other works of translation are: Dreamscape By Rickerby Hinds. Birthmark By Rickerby Hinds. Autism Goes to College (Documentary) By Eric Linthorst.
Her writing is bilingual and seeks to explore the liminal identities of women and immigrants through a comedic angle. As a playwright and dramaturg, she’s written/directed several of her one-act plays. She premiered her play Latinext at the New Play Festival at the University of California, Riverside. She was also part of the Lime Arts Unfinished initiative, where she developed her play Una Cita en él Salon.
Esther recently obtained her MFA in Playwriting at the University of California, Riverside, where she’s collaborated with the Latinx Play Project and Gluck Foundation. She is also part of the Playground-LA writers pool with various selected productions, making the “Best of” thrice. The most recent for Best Of 2026, Waiting For... The Bus.
She is featured in a chapter of the book Latinx Actor Training and Inside the Performance Workshop: A sourcebook for Rasaboxes and Other Exercises, both published in 2023 by Routledge Press.
Currently, she works for the local black-owned social justice-focused newspaper Black Voice News as a writer, project manager, and audience engagement coordinator. She also works for Hindsight Productions in Riverside, California, and is a founding board member of the World Builders Incubator as well as a writer developing solutions-based stories. She also offers her varied expertise as a core member of Distinctive Voices LLC.
Waiting For...The Bus
returns in Best Of Playground LA 25-26 season.
April 6th
DNA You and Me
Becoming We
is going to be featured as part of the Frida Kahlo Theater 10-Minute Theater Festival 2026.
April 10th-May 6th
Vis A Vis A VISA
This TV series pilot episode with be read at the World Builders Incubator Stories event at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco.
May 1st-3rd