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.

Edna Lee Figueroa received a New York Latin ACE Award from the Asociación de Cronistas de Espectáculos de Nueva York for her work in the Nitsy Grau-helmed award-winning feature film Medardo, which also won the New York Latin ACE Award for Best Opera Prima for Grau. For more information, check out the New York Impacto News article (which is in Spanish) by clicking here. Figueroa and Medardo star-writer-producer Julio Ortega, shown at right, in a scene from the film, were also profiled about the ACE Awards win in the ANDES (Agencia Pública de Noticias del Ecuador y Suramérica) blog. To read the blog, which is in Spanish, click here.

Cynthia Bastidas is acting in the Deborah Zoe Laufer play Informed Consent. Directed by Kristen Coury, the play is produced by the Gulfshore Playhouse for a January 2016 run at The Norris Center in Naples, Florida. For more information, click here.

Manuel Herrera will be presenting a voiceover workshop in March 2016 as part of the Programa Hispano at the national VO Atlanta voiceover conference, scheduled to take place at the Atlanta Hilton Airport Hotel in Atlanta, Georgia. For more information, click here (note: website is in Spanish).

Inma Heredia will be performing at an homage to actress (and previous HOLA Award honoree) Lupita Ferrer. Produced by Kayros Theater Group, the event will also feature performer Juan José Sumba and take place on Friday, January 29, 2016 in D'Antigua Lounge in the Jackson Heights neighborhood of Queens.

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?