(Top row, left to right): Angélica Álvarez, Martha Alzate; (second row, left to right): Edward Azcorra, Raphael Benavides; (third row, left to right): Gonzalo Cardani, Mariana Cárdenas; (fourth row, left to right): Samuel Garnica, Sandra Gumuzzio; (fifth row, left to right): Nicolet Lisotto, Nick Luis; (sixth row, left to right): Martha Luisa Osorio, Gloria Ospina; (seventh row, left to right): Eric Robledo, Esteban Rodríguez-Alverio; (eighth row, left to right): Ura Yoana Sánchez, María de Lourdes Severny; (bottom row, left to right): Marcos Sotomayor, Fabián Zarta.
Manuel A. Morán, shown at right, was featured in the Puerto Rican daily newspaper El Nuevo Día, where it talks of him taking his 2015 HOLA Award-winning production of Sueño (based on the William Shakespeare play A Midsummer Night's Dream; adapted by Norge Espinosa and directed by Morán) to Puerto Rico. The production will be part of the 51st annual Festival de Teatro Internacional of the Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña (ICP), which is dedicated to Morán. Sueño will take place in December at the world famous El Castillo San Felipe del Morro (more commonly known as El Morro) in Viejo San Juan. To read the article, which is in Spanish, click here.
Edison Carrera is directing Dinorah Coronado's Secreto de mujeres. The play, which features Maritza Vives in the cast, will take place as part of the Festival Internacional de Teatro - Mujeres en Escena (FITME 2015), taking place in November at the William V. Musto Cultural Center/Union City Museum in the West Hoboken area of Union City, New Jersey. For more information, click here.
2015 HOLA Performer's Choice Award recipient Raúl Rivera is directing Arnaldo Rodríguez's play El chismecito. The production will feature Martha Alzate in the cast and be produced in November as part of the En Un Acto Theater and Film Festival, being presented by TEBA at the Broadway Blackbox Theater, located in Manhattan's Washington Heights neighborhood. For more information, click here.
Marcos Sotomayor acted in The Flama comedy video "If Dominicans Created Uber" (He can be seen briefly as the "potential cat caller". To see the video, click here or on the top video below. He also appears in the third webisode of the webseries "The Streets" (written and directed by Will Hue and produced by Old Kid Productions), which can be seen in the bottom video below (caution: adult language and violence).
The Teatro Rafael Villalona at the Comisionado Dominicano de Cultura en EEUU has announced its fall 2015 season and many HOLA members can be found in many of the productions (some of which are being remounted after winning awards for their original runs). They are listed below (HOLA members are listed in boldface).
Starring Jorge Luis Berríos, Venuz Delmar, 2015 HOLA Awards recipient Franco González, Ángela Pérez, et al.
Starring 2015 HOLA Awards recipient Sandor Juan, et al.
The Comisionado Dominicano de Cultura en EEUU is located in Manhattan's Washington Heights-Harlem neighborhood. For more information about its theatrical offerings, click here.
Elaine Del Valle was featured in Latin Trends magazine where her role as a co-producer of the popular interactive webseries "Gran'pa Knows Best" was mentioned. Del Valle negotiated an acquisition deal with HBO Latino for the series (in a first of its kind deal for interstitial programming). Created, co-produced, directed, shot and edited by William D. Caballero (shown at right, with Del Valle and "Gran'pa") and based on his award-winning short film How You Doin', Boy? Voicemails From Gran'pa, its star is Caballero's own grandfather Víctor Muriel (who voices the title character, itself a 3D model of Muriel). "Gran'pa Knows Best" (which can also be seen on HBO Go, HBO Now and HBO On Demand, in addition to HBO Latino). To read the article, click on the image at right.
Teatro Círculo is presenting Carlos Ferrari's Los titingós de Juan Bobo. Directed by José Cheo Oliveras, the production will take place in December at Teatro Círculo's namesake theater in the East Village and star Eva Cristina Vázquez, Oliveras, Johary Ramos, Fermín Suárez, Jessica Florí, Jeanette González, Edna Lee Figueroa and Jorge Dieppa. For more information, click here.
Caridad de la Luz (also known by her nom de poésie et de musique La Bruja), shown at left, at the Day of the Dead festival taking place on Halloween weekend and presented by The American Indian Museum located in the South West area of Washington, District of Columbia. For more information, click here.
2015 HOLA Award recipients Mario Golden and Andreas Robertz, through their HOLA Award-winning company OneHeart Productions and in collaboration with the Fantastic Experimental Latino Theater (FELT), are presenting the Allen Davis III Playwriting Lab. Named after the playwright, teacher and HOLA Lifetime Achievement Award honoree Allen Davis III, the workshop will take place for fall, winter and spring sessions at the FELT studio, located in the Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural and Educational Center (home to HOLA) in Manhattan's Loísaida neighborhood. For more information, click here or here, or look at a video interview with Mssrs. Golden and Robertz by clicking here or on the image below.
2015 HOLA Awards recipient Juan Villarreal, shown at right, received a gold medal and a certificate from Premios Pablo Podestá for his 50 years of affiliation with the Congreso Nacional Argentino. The ceremony took place in the Salón Azul of the Congreso de la Nación in Buenos Aires, Argentina. For more information, click here (note that the site is in Spanish).
Patrick Michael Valley is acting in the play In Sheep's Clothing. Written and directed by Tony Vozzo, it will be presented in December at the Producers' Club Theaters, located in the theater district of midtown Manhattan.
Mónica Delgado will be performing in October with the Colombian folkloric dance company Pajarillo Pinta'o (under the direction of Daniel Fetecua) at the Borough of Manhattan Community College, located in Manhattan's TriBeCa neighborhood. For more information, click here.
The recipients of the 2015 HOLA Performer's Choice Awards were announced at the 2015 HOLA Awards on Monday, October 12, 2015 at the Battery Gardens in New York City. The general public voted online for Outstanding Production and Outstanding Solo Production, respectively, in the New York City Latino theater season between July 1, 2014 and June 30, 2015. More than 2600 votes (for over 80 productions) were cast, and the five finalists (top five vote-getters) were announced shortly before the awards ceremony. The recipients of the award would be the playwright, director, actor(s) and producer(s) of the producer(s). The finalists are listed below in alphabetical order by title.
Congratulations to all of the 2015 HOLA Performer's Choice Award recipients!!