Dino Foxx, born and raised in San Antonio, lives his life as a Queer Xicano actor, singer, dancer, writer, spoken word poet and activist. Dino has performed as a part of the Tragic Bitches theatrical poetry project at La Peña Cultural Center in Berkley, The Village in Hollywood, MACLA in San Jose and The historic Victory Grill in Austin, Tejas. Dino has also performed alongside such greats as Lorenzo Herrera y Lozano, Sterling Houston, Vickie Grise, Miguel Pablo-Gonzalez, Adelina Anthony, Anel Flores and Jackie Cuevas.
Dino has headlined in New York City alongside Emanuel Xavier in Mariposas, a spoken word benefit for SOMOS (A program of the Latino Commission on AIDS) at the Bowery Poetry Club. In the fall of 2008 his work will be featured in Mariposas: A Modern Anthology of Queer Latino Poetry (Floricanto Press 2008) an anthology edited by Emanuel Xavier that celebrates the theme of the spoken word benefit held at the Bowery.
As a Company Member of Jump-Start Performance Company, Dino Foxx has performed and written for such Jump-Start performances as Finding Love in Wartime (2007) Jump-Start: The remiXX directed by Steve Bailey (2006) Epcot El Alamo created with Guillermo Gomez-Pena (2004), Calor de Amor: The Temperatures of Love directed by Raquel Araujo for the Festival de Libre Enganche where he also premiered the first version of his one man show Some Little Boys Want To Be Beauty Queens (2003).
His poetry, which follows "themes of family unity and disunity, ethnic bonds and divisions, assimilation and displacement as well as sexuality and love" (Andres Duque of Blabbeando), has been published in such collections as the 19th issue of Suspect Thoughts: A journal of subversive writing (2007) and the radical Queer People of Color Anthology, Queer Codex: Chile Love in association with Evelyn Street Press & ALLGO.
Dino is also in the process of publishing his first collection of poetry called Memoirs of a Joto – Part I (Xorizote Press 2008).
