Desiree Marisol Carcamo is a...
DIRECTOR - ACTOR - WRITER - PRODUCER
contact at DesireeMarisolCarcamo-DMC@proton.me
Desiree Marisol Carcamo (they/them) is a very superstitious Mexican-Salvadoran-American Gen Z self-taught director, actor, writer, and producer. They grew up in a haunted house that was once owned by devil worshippers in South Central LA and survived being a closeted queer kid at a toxic, conservative, religious high school and earned their masters-bachelors in bioengineering at University of California Riverside.
PHOTO BY: Gí Tenamá
PHOTO BY: Gí Tenamá
Career Highlights:
• Civil Rights Icon, Dolores Huerta, presenting Desiree and other filmmakers a certificate of recognition from the city of Los Angeles for their directorial and producing work at the 2nd Annual Justice for My Sister Film Festival (2025)
↑ Desiree Marisol Carcamo's DIRECTING REEL (2025) ↑
Career Development:
• being selected for the Latinx Theatre Commons' Latinx Actor Training Laboratorio at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of Theater and Drama (actor, 2026)
• directing the LA Premiere of Diego Muñoz Holguin's play REY DE LA LUNA at the Eastwood Theater for the Hollywood Fringe Festival (2026)
• developing their sophomore full length play MANUELA'S HOME at the Teatro Frida Kahlo's 10 Minute Play Festival (writer-director, 2026)
• the CBS Leadership Pipeline Challenge (director, 2022)
• the Disney-NHMC Series Writer program (writer, 2021)
• winning NBCUniversal and Nosotros' Ya Tu Sabes! Monolog Slam (writer, 2020)
• winning Open Screenplay's and M Film's Lab's Latinx Lab (writer, 2022)
• Kimberly Bautista's film non-profit Justice for My Sister (2022-Present)
• directing the LA Premiere of Diego Muñoz Holguin's play REY DE LA LUNA at the Eastwood Theater for the Hollywood Fringe Festival (2026)
• developing their sophomore full length play MANUELA'S HOME at the Teatro Frida Kahlo's 10 Minute Play Festival (writer-director, 2026)
• the CBS Leadership Pipeline Challenge (director, 2022)
• the Disney-NHMC Series Writer program (writer, 2021)
• winning NBCUniversal and Nosotros' Ya Tu Sabes! Monolog Slam (writer, 2020)
• winning Open Screenplay's and M Film's Lab's Latinx Lab (writer, 2022)
• Kimberly Bautista's film non-profit Justice for My Sister (2022-Present)
What Stories does Desiree like to tell?
• humor as an entry for happy-sad stories about real life with elements of surrealism & magical realism•
•emotionally in-tune storytelling•
•complex family stories•
• queer BIPoC femmes & delicate relationships•
•creating safe & open spaces for collaboration•
↑ Desiree Marisol Carcamo's WRITING REEL (2025) ↑
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