In order to save it, Raul Trevino, a playwright, approached Lozano with a proposal to produce a play about a 1969 walkout in Crystal City that protested unequal treatment for Mexican-American students.
Premiering in 2009, Crystal City 1969 was successful enough to keep Cara Mía afloat, and inspired Lozano to return and begin producing works that addressed the socioeconomic difficulties faced by Latino people.
[9] During Lozano's time at Cara Mía, the company has pursued extensive community engagement by backing youth arts programs that support up to 15,000 students per year.
[11] Characters are based on real participants, and the play attempted to capture the reality of the walkouts by relying on first-person accounts to shape its narrative.
[12] Deferred Action is the second in Lozano's trilogy, and focuses on a DACA recipient in Texas named Javi who is attempting to navigate the political discussion surrounding immigration.
Initially, it seems clear how Javi will side, but on a television appearance he criticizes the DACA in front of both candidates as being a temporary solution that fails to address the long term.
[8] As in Lozano's previous work, Deferred Action was produced in part by interviewing DACA recipients and understanding their personal experience as undocumented immigrants.