HOLA Member Bochinche

Bochinche refers to "gossip." In this sense, we use it to mention HOLA members who are getting acting and performance gigs.

Modesto Lacén just wrapped up producing Sunilda Caraballo's solo show Hardware Dreams at Theater for the New City and will follow that up with portraying the Brazilian sculptor Antônio Francisco Lisboa (also known as O Aleijadinho) in the NY Artists Unlimited/Montauk Theatre Productions' Black Gold - the Passion of Aleijadinho. Written and directed by Melba LaRose, the show is scheduled for a December run at the Shooting Star Theatre at the South Street Seaport in Manhattan.

Blanca Vásquez recorded voiceovers of two different characters for a children's interactive iPad application called "Goodie Words," recorded audiobooks for Audible.com and recorded educational books for Pearson Education.

Éric-Dominique Pérez had a sold out performance of his self-penned solo show El Gringuito (directed by A.B. Lugo) at Theatre Row Studios in the theater district of midtown Manhattan. He will next perform the show in December at The PIT (People's Improv Theater) in Manhattan's Chelsea neighborhood.

If you are an HOLA member and want to submit a bochinche item, send us an e-mail at holagram@hellohola.org. If you are not an HOLA member, why not join?

HOLA Member Bochinche

Bochinche refers to "gossip." In this sense, we use it to mention HOLA members who are getting acting and performance gigs.

Gladys K. Nilsen e-mailed us to let us know that she sang a repertoire of songs in English, Spanish and French, as well as a tribute to the Chilean miners at the restaurant ETC. ETC. located in the theater district of midtown Manhattan.

Actor-dancer-choreographer Milteri Tucker brought a dance program to the Alvin Ailey Dance Theater in the Columbus Circle area of Manhattan. She and a company of nine performed a number she choreographed; it marked the first time the Afro-Puerto Rican dance bomba was presented on that stage.

Angelina Llongueras e-mailed us to let us know that her self-penned solo show Phoolan is Everyone was invited to perform in the Festival de Mujeres en Escena por la Paz: Memoria e Independencia and Festival de Teatro Contemporáneo de Mujeres theater festivals, in Bogotá and Cali, Colombia, respectively.

FELT and Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural and Educational Center (the latter home to HOLA) is set to present The Pins and Needles of the Heart. Written and directed by Arcadio Ruiz Castellanos, the play is produced by Gloria Zelaya, is scheduled for a December run in the Flamboyán Theater in the CSV Center (located in Manhattan's Loísaida neighborhood) and features Jorge Hoyos, J.W. Cortés, Cristina Rodríguez, Paul Cosentino and Joanna Blais in the cast.

Tony Chiroldes booked the audiobook narration for the Spanish language version of Ricky Martin's memoir Me (naturally titled in Spanish, Yo).

If you are an HOLA member and want to submit a bochinche item, send us an e-mail at holagram@hellohola.org. If you are not an HOLA member, why not join?

WELCOME NEW AND RETURNING MEMBERS - SEPTEMBER AND OCTOBER 2010

Below is a list of new (and returning) HOLA members who joined between September 1, 2010 and October 31, 2010.

(Top row, left to right): Miguel Belmonte, Melita Camilo; (second row, left to right): Koko De Jesús, Henry Gaínza; (third row, left to right): Richard Gómez, Susanna Guzmán; (fourth row, left to right): Laura Lona, Ignacio Meneses.