About HOLAtalks: DAVID ZAYAS

DAVID ZAYAS is a star of stage and screen. Formerly a NYC police officer, he started acting, where, fittingly, he often played a cop. Having won many roles in film and television, he quickly reached a point in his career where it seemed that acting was truly his calling, and he was able to leave the police force and focus solely on performing. He won raves as the terrifying and powerful prisoner Enrique Morales, from HBO's “OZ”. A longtime member of the LAByrinth Theater Company, he had his debut on Broadway in Nilo Cruz’s Pulitzer Prize-winning drama Anna in the Tropics. He can currently be seen playing Ángel Batista in the hit Showtime series “Dexter.” In October, he received the 2012 HOLA José Ferrer Tespis Award and in November, he received a 2012 Latin Trendsetter Award from Latin Trends magazine.

LOUIS PEREGO MORENO (a.k.a. TÍO LOUIE) is an interactive content producer and educator who for the past 31 years has owned Skyline Features, a bilingual (English- and Spanish-language) multimedia and educational production company focusing on culture, women, urban youth and health. His area of specialty is developing documentaries, television programming and advertising commercials featuring Latinos, Blacks, Women, Urban Youth and LGBT people. He custom-tailors content for multiplatform media: television, internet, print, radio and public venues. He has trained 1,500 Latino and Black Youth over 10 years to produce 70 documentary shorts addressing social, public and mental health issues. He takes many of the documentary shorts, as well as features and speaks at colleges and universities nationally. For two years he was the President of the National Association of Latino Independent Producers in New York (NALIP) and now produces Prime Latino Media Salon, New York's only monthly gathering of Latino multimedia-makers and actors. He also serves on the Board of Advisors for the Center for Latino Arts & Culture at Rutgers University. He will be the moderator of the HOLAtalks: DAVID ZAYAS event.

The HOLAtalks event was founded in 2009 with a simple concept: have a Latino celebrity be interviewed about his/her life and career in front of an audience, followed by a question and answer period. Previous HOLAtalks event have featured award-winning performers such as Daphne Rubin-Vega, Tony Plana and Lauren Vélez.

The HOLAtalks: DAVID ZAYAS event
will take place on Monday, December 17, 2012 at 7pm.

It will kick off the 2012 HOLAfestival of staged play readings
by HOLA member-playwrights Florencia Lozano,
Alfonso Ramírez and Alberto Bonilla.

 The 2012 HOLAfestival will take place
Tuesday-Thursday, December 18-20, 2012
at 7:30pm each night.

The HOLAtalks: DAVID ZAYAS and the HOLAfestival events

will take place at Teatro LATEA, 107 Suffolk Street, Second Floor, NYC

(between Rivington and Delancey streets). 

$10 SUGGESTED ADMISSION FOR EACH EVENT
($5 FOR HOLA AND NALIP MEMBERS/FRIENDS OF HOLA)

RESERVATIONS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED

ALL READINGS AT 7:30pm
(HOLAtalks: DAVID ZAYAS AT 7pm)

 

FOR MORE INFORMATION OR TO RSVP, CALL (212) 253-1015.

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