[4][7] Both cities are part of the bi-national Reynosa–McAllen metropolitan area straddling the Rio Grande (Spanish: Río Bravo del Norte).
[10][2][7][5][excessive citations] Saracho initially attempted to work as an actress, but found that her opportunities as a Latina were limited[1] to typecast roles as maids or sex workers.
[tone][1][7] Saracho took part in the creation of numerous works through Teatro Luna, including Machos, Dejame Contarte (Let Me Tell You), The María Chronicles and S-E-X-Oh!.
[1][11] Machos is a play examining "contemporary masculinities",[14] drawn from interviews with 50 men across the U.S.[14][15] and performed by the all-Latina cast in drag,[14][16] which earned 2 Non-Equity Jeff Awards.
[5] The same year, she co-founded The Alliance of Latinx Theater Artists (ALTA) of Chicago,[17][18][19][20][excessive citations] which describes itself as "a service organization dedicated to furthering the Chicago Latinx Theater movement by promoting, educating, representing, and unifying Latinx-identified artists and their allies".
[2][22] One of her first works after leaving Teatro Luna was El Nogalar for the Goodman Theatre, co-produced with Teatro Vista, as a reconstruction of Anton Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard set in the pecan orchards of Northern Mexico amid the drug wars,[2][3][18][23][excessive citations] which ran at the Goodman Theatre from March 26 to April 24, 2011.
[2][3][23] She was also then working on two Andrew W. Mellon Foundation commissions for Steppenwolf Theatre, an adaptation of a Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz play for Oregon Shakespeare Festival called The Tenth Muse,[23][25] and a historical fiction piece for About Face Theatre called The Good Private.
The latter, about a transgender soldier in the American Civil War,[2][3] was inspired by the story of Albert Cashier, recognized as female on birth in Ireland but who lived out their life in Illinois as a man after fighting for the Union Army.
She is also developing another series with Big Beach called Brujas,[17][41] based on her 2007 play Enfrascada,[42][43] which will follow four Afro-Caribbean / Latinx Chicagoans within the brujería counter-culture.
[23][17] She has also won the Goodman's Ofner Prize,[5][23] a 3Arts Artists Award[23][44] and a National Endowment for the Arts Distinguished New Play Development Project Grant with About Face Theater.
[48] In June 2020, in honor of the 50th anniversary of the first LGBTQ Pride parade, Queerty named her among the fifty heroes “leading the nation toward equality, acceptance, and dignity for all people”.
[53] Saracho has cited a number of individuals as influences, including the 17th-century nun Juana Inés de la Cruz, African-American playwrights and professors Lynn Nottage and Lydia R. Diamond, Cuban-American avant-garde playwright María Irene Fornés, British director Caroline Eves, and LGBT writer and director Luis Alfaro[7]