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.

Aileene Pérez and Héctor Luis Rivera, shown above, left to right, were featured in the Arte NY blog, where her starring in the titular role of the Teatro Experimental Blue Amigos (TEBA) production of Mirandolina (La posadera), directed by him, was noted. The play will be presented in June as part of the seventh annual Festival de Teatro Latino Del Comisionado at the Teatro Rafael Villalona at El Comisionado Dominicano de Cultura en EEUU, located in Manhattan's Washington Heights neighborhood. To read the blog, which is in Spanish, click here.

Mônica Steuer, shown at right, starred in The Painter's Dream, a short film written by Fabián Zarta and directed by Paul Stancato. The film is currently in post-production.

Judy Torres will sing her freestyle dance music hits on Friday, June 23, 2017 at QXT's in Newark, New Jersey, and then on Friday, June 30, 2017 at the Freestyle Explosion (Summerstage Edition) concert at the Mount Airy Lodge Casino Resort in Mount Airy, Pennsylvania. For more information, click here and here, respectively.

The award-winning feature film 11:55 (written by Víctor Almanzar, Ari Issler, and Ben Snyder, and directed by Issler and Snyder) will be released in theaters in 11 cities in the United States of America and Canada (New York, New York; Los Angeles, California; Chicago, Illinois; Orlando, Florida; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Dallas, Texas; Denver, Colorado; San Francisco, California; Phoenix, Arizona; Boston, Massachusetts; Toronto, Ontario) on Friday, June 9, 2017. The film is produced by Danny Mendoza, Joshua Blum, Gia Walsh, Kara Baker, and Matthew Thurm; and co-stars Almanzar, former HOLA Awards honorees John Leguizamo and David Zayas, and Erick Betancourt. For more information, click 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?