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The Teatro Experimental Blue Amigos (TEBA) is presenting the first annual Festival de Comedias TEBA, taking place April 10-24, 2016 at the Broadway Blackbox Theater in Manhattan's Washington Heights neighborhood. This year's festival is dedicated to the actress, writer, director, journalist and producer Cecill Villar. A list of the productions is below. HOLA members are shown in boldface.

• Maduritas, macrobióticas, y multiorgásmicas
Written by Cristián Cortez Galecio
Directed  by Franco Galecio
Produced by Fragal
With Kathy Tejada, Fior Marte, Melba Miranda

• Santa Bárbara es una femme fatale
Written by Mariana and Camila Monclova
Directed by Edna Lee Figueroa and Edmi De Jesús
Produced by Edna Lee Figueroa and Edmi De Jesús for Producciones El Barrio With Edna Lee Figueroa and Edmi De Jesús 

• Q.E.P.D. (Que en paz descansen)
Written by José Martinez Queirolo
Directed by Iván L. Argudo
Produced by Teatro Vanguardia
With Ivan L. Argudo and Aileene Pérez 

• 2 veces 2+ 1
Written by Julie de Grandy
Directed by George Riverón
Produced by Teatro Del Aire
With Natalia Ivana Escobar, Sandor Juan, Úrsula Tinoco, Léster Arellano, Victor Alfonso

• Que Bárbara
Written and directed by Yoshvani Medina 
Produced by ArtSpoken
With Barby Ganesh

• Ya viene abuela
Written by Dinorah Coronado 
Directed by Raúl Rivera
Produced by Teatro Coronado 
With Olga Camil, Helen Rodríguez, Digna Carvajal, Pedro Vargas, Jorge Nieto and Gloria Almázar

• Cama para tres 
Adapted by Elías Balladares (from a play by J.C. Garccione)
Directed by Cecill Villar
Produced by Compañía de Comedias Cecill Villar
With Cecill Villar, Edison Carrera, Ingrit Pérez, Aksel Tang, Piedad Castaño

• Carne
Written by Maikel Chávez Directed by Erom Jimmy 
Produced by Miami Factory Theatre
With Héctor Alejandro González, Rosabel Ceballes, Miriam Bermúdez, Monica Bermúdez, Jessica Mesa

In addition, on Tuesday, April 12, 2016, the festival will have a panel titled, "¿Por qué escribimos comedia?", and will consist of four Latino playwrights based in New York– Dinorah Coronado, Pablo García Gámez, Franco Galecio, and Pedro R. Monge Rafuls.

For more information about the first annual Festival de Comedias TEBA, dedicated to the actress, writer, director, journalist and producer Cecill Villar, and taking place April 10-24, 2016 at the Broadway Blackbox Theater in the Washington Heights neighborhood of Manhattan, click here or here.

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