Tanya Saracho, the showrunner for 'Vida' on the Starz network, is dedicated to telling stories from an LGBTQ and Latinx perspective. Pride50
The Starz show “Vida” was always going to be about the “gentefication” — gentrification driven by young, upwardly mobile Latino individuals — but it was the series' showrunner, Tanya Saracho, who decided to place queer actors, crew members and writers at its forefront. The result? “Vida” has been praised by viewers and critics alike for moving beyond buzzwords, pushing past tokenism and caricaturization and revolutionizing queer representation in television.
Soon, however, Saracho discovered that her opportunities as a Latina actress were limited to playing maids, sex workers and other stereotypical roles. To combat the dearth of acting opportunities, Saracho and her friend Coya Paz founded Teatro Luna, an all-Latina theater group, in 2000. In 2012, Saracho began writing for television and became a staff writer on Lifetime’s “Devious Maids” the following year. She also wrote for “Girls,” “Looking” and “How To Get Away With Murder,” before becoming the showrunner of “Vida.” “Vida” has an all-Latinx and majority-queer writers’ room and is told from a “brown, queer gaze,” according to Saracho.
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