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.

Eric Robledo and Frank Robles, shown at left and at right, respectively, are starring in Julio Ramón Ribeyro's Fin de semana. The play is directed by Diego M. Chiri and is running in July and August at Repertorio Español, located in the Rose Hill neighborhood of Manhattan. For more information, click here.

Gerardo Gudiño will star opposite George Bass and Mariana Buoninconti in Walter Ventosilla's Flor de lirio. Directed by Julián Mesri, the play will be presented in September and October at IATI Theater in Manhattan's East Village. For more information, click here.

Mauricio Pita, shown at left, is in the cast of I Like to Be Here: Jackson Heights Revisited, or, This Is A Mango. A series of plays written by Camilo Almonacid; Jenny Lyn Bader; J. Stephen Brantley; Ed Cardona, Jr.; Les Hunter; Melisa Tien; and Joy Tomasko, it is directed by Ari Laura Kreith as part of the Theater: Village Festival of New American Plays, presented in September by Theatre 167 at the New Ohio Theatre (located in Manhattan's West Village). For more information, click here. He will follow that up with a role in the play 1989, a collaborative effort using Anne Bogart's Viewpoints. Directed by Tatiana Pandiani, the show will take place in November at Columbia University in the West Harlem/Manhattanville area of Manhattan. (He received this latter gig through a referral that took place via HOLA.)

Mônica Steuer, shown at right, will be playing Sylvia Plath to Rebeca Alemán's Frida Kahlo in Néstor Caballero's Musas. Directed by Iraida Tapias, the play imagines a meeting between the Mexican painter and the English poet. Performances will take place at the Greenhouse Theater Center in Chicago, Illinois. For more information, click here or here.

Laura Patalano and Harmony Rose Santana star in You're Dead To Me (written by Adelina Anthony and directed by Wu Tsang). The short film has been hitting the film festival circuit; its next screening will be in August at the Martha's Vineyard African American Film Festival (MVAAFF) in the town of Oak Bluffs, located on the island of Martha's Vineyard in Massachusetts. For more information, click here, here or here.

If you are an HOLA member or a Friend of HOLA and want to submit a bochinche item, send us an e-mail. If you live in the New York metropolitan area and want to be an HOLA member, why not join? If you live outside the New York metropolitan area and want to be an HOLA member, you can find out more information on how to do so, by clicking here. If you are not a Friend of HOLA, why not become one?