HOLA Member Bochinche

Bochinche refers to “gossip”. In this sense, we use it to mention HOLA members or Friends of HOLA who are getting acting, performance or similarly artistic gigs and/or recognition in the media. The names of HOLA members and Friends of HOLA are listed below in boldface. To see what other HOLA members are doing currently, click here.

Academy Award-nominated actress Rosie Pérez, shown at right, has just published a memoir. Titled Handbook for an Unpredictable Life: How I Survived Sister Renata and My Crazy Mother and Still Came Out Smiling (And With Great Hair), it is published by Random House and recounts her turbulent childhood and how she became a dancer, then choreographer, then actress. She was profiled in the New York Daily News regarding the memoir. To read the article, click here.

Ángelo Mercado, Jr. booked a role on an episode of a new, as yet untitled program on the Investigation Discovery (ID) network.

J.F. Seary will be returning to the stage with Soledad Speaks. Written and performed by Peggy Robles-Alvarado, Meriam Rodríguez, María Rodríguez and Seary, the spoken word piece was created and directed by Linda Nieves-Powell and curated by Robles-Alvarado and Seary. It will be presented at the Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance (BAAD!), located in the Bronx's Westchester Square area in March as part of its BAAD! Ass Women Festival. For more information, click here or here.

TEBA is presenting Ramón Del Valle Inclán's Las galas del difunto. Adapted and directed by Héctor Luis Rivera, the play will be presented in March at the Broadway Blackbox Theater in Manhattan's Washington Heights neighborhood and feature Telba Cavero, Nicolás Díaz, Hermilo Galicia, Enmanuel García Villavicencio, Alex Manzano, J. Edgar Mozoub, Raúl Rivera, Kathy Tejada and Claudio Weisz in the cast. For more information, click here.

Anthony Ruiz can be seen in a new commercial for the New York State Lottery. The commercial can be seen below.



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