2015 HOLA Performer's Choice Awards Recipients Announced – ¡Por mi madre que es verdad! & Manchild Machismo

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.

Outstanding Production
• El invierno de Abril (Tabula RaSa NYC/Festival de Teatro Hispano del Comisionado)
• Federico García Lorca vuelve a nacer (E3Outlaws Productions/Lorca Al Desnudo-eARTh Theater Festival)
• Non Tutti I Ladri Vengono Per Nuocere/No hay ladrón por que bien no venga (E3Outlaws Productions/Festival de Teatro Hispano del Comisionado)
• ¡Por mi madre que es verdad! (Group of the Arts)
• Rosita (Group of the Arts/Lorca Al Desnudo-eARTh Theater Festival)

Outstanding Solo Production
• Juana, reina de España (Monologando Ando Festival)
• Láyel (Monologando Ando Festival & Teatro Círculo)
• Manchild Machismo (The ONE Festival/TTO Productions)
• The Naked Truth (The ONE Festival/TTO Productions)
• You Are Confused! (Ryan Repertory Company)

With over 38% of the vote, the 2015 HOLA Performer's Choice Award recipient for Outstanding Production is ¡Por mi madre que es verdad! (Group of the Arts). Accepting the award was producer-director-actor J. Edgar Mozoub*. He was joined onstage by fellow actors Enmanuel García Villavicencio*, Raúl Rivera* and 2015 HOLA Awards recipient Héctor Luis Rivera*. Also receiving a 2015 HOLA Performer's Choice Award are producer Arberto Fernández, playwright Pablo Cabrera, and actors Digna Carvajal, Telba Cavero*, María Cotto*, Dílcia De Jesús, Altagracia Frías, Agar García, Milo Galicia, A.B. Lugo*, Amado Marte, Erickson Peralta, Yvette Quintero, Schneider Ureña and Pedro Vargas. (Names marked with an asterisk indicate an HOLA member or a Friend of HOLA.)

With over 32% of the vote, the 2015 HOLA Performer's Choice Award recipient for Outstanding Solo Production is Manchild Machismo (The ONE Festival/TTO Entertainment). Accepting the award was playwright-actor A.B. Lugo*. Also receiving a 2015 HOLA Performer's Choice Award are director Omar Pérez*, and producers Verónica Caicedo and José A. Esquea*. (Names marked with an asterisk indicate an HOLA member or a Friend of HOLA.)

Congratulations to all of the 2015 HOLA Performer's Choice Award recipients!!

[Photos by Anthony Ruiz/ARuiz Photography.]