This is the official blog of the Hispanic Organization of Latin Actors (HOLA). www.hellohola.org
HOLA has been funded, in part, through the New York State Council on the Arts, The City of New York Department of Cultural Affairs, Friends of HOLA and the dues-paying members of HOLA.
Bochinche refers to “gossip”. In this sense, we use it to mentionHOLAmembers 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. Mônica Steuer, shown at right,is starring in the Robby Ramos play Alpha66. Directed by Jake Turner, the play will be presented in July at T. Schreiber Studio and Theatre, located in Manhattan's Chelsea neighborhood. For more information, click here.
Marina Catalán, Alicia Cerón, and Julissa Román were highlighted in the New York daily newspaper El Diario/La Prensa, as a result of them starring in the LaMicro Theater production of Leonardo González's play Nanas. Produced by Berioska Ipinza and Pietro González (also featured in the article), the recently shuttered play was directed by Tatiana Pandiani and took place in June at IATI Theater, located in Manhattan's East Village. To read the article, which is in Spanish, click here. [Clockwise from above left in the image at left: Catalán, Cerón, Román, González.]
Raquel Almazán, shown at right, was recently featured in The Huffington Post, where she was interviewed about her Latin is America play cycle and recent activist work with La Paloma Prisoner Project. To read the blog, click here.
A.B. Lugo was interviewed by Rhina Valentín on her talk show "Open" (BronxNet), where he talked about his recently published book of poetry Spanish Coffee: Black, No Sugar (La Casita Grande), and his upcoming book release party, scheduled to take place at Friday, July 14, 2017 at Word Up Community Bookshop, located in Manhattan's Washington Heights neighborhood. To see the interview, click on the video below.
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?
Bochinche refers to “gossip”. In this sense, we use it to mentionHOLAmembers 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.
Caridad de la Luz (also known by her nom de poésie et de musiqueLa Bruja), is one of two honorees (the other being musician K7 of TKA) of the 2017 edition of The 116th Street Festival. She received the award from Rhina Valentín on Monday, June 5, 2017 at the Pelham Bay & Split Rock Golf Courses, located in the Pelham Bay Park section of the Bronx. The festival, in its 32nd year, is the biggest Latino festival in the Northeast United States, will take place on Saturday, June 10, 2017 (the day before the National Puerto Rican Parade) in Manhattan's El Barrio neighborhood. [Shown left to right in the photo at right: de la Luz and Valentín at the awards ceremony.]
A.B. Lugo, shown at left, was featured in the LCG Lounge blog, where he was interviewed about being a writer and his recently published book of poetry Spanish Coffee/Black, No Sugar (La Casita Grande Editores). To read the interview, click here. To buy the book, which is available via Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and the publisher directly, click here, here, and here.
ABC Casting continued their collaboration with the Hispanic Organization of Latin Actors (HOLA), conducting a casting workshop in New York. The workshop concluded with an audition for the ABC Diversity Workshop. The HOLA members selected by ABC through member submission were Marcelo Carrascosa, Shevy Gutiérrez, Al Lanfranco, Marisel Polanco, Stephanie Rocío, and Christina Villa. Special thanks to ABC Casting Director of Primetime Casting Marci Phillips and Casting Coordinator Erica A. Hart.
Ángel Gil Orrios, Soledad López, Edison Carrera, Modesto Lacén, Mayté Hernández, and Yvette Quinterowere named among the best dressed at the recent New York Latin ACE Awards, according to the Héctor Luis Sin Censura resident fashionista Raúl Rivera. To read about who else made the cut, click here. [Clockwise from left: Gil Orrios and López, Carrera, Lacén, Hernández, Quintero.] Víctor Cruz appeared in a national commercial for CitiBank with actor-comedian Jim Breuer. He appears at the left of the trio in the commercial which can be seen by clicking on the video below.
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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?
Bochinche refers to “gossip”. In this sense, we use it to mentionHOLAmembers 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.
Juan Villarreal, shown standing, in character, at a curtain call, in the photo at right, is co-starring in the Ricardo Talesnik play La fiaca. Directed by Leyma López, the production has premiered in May at Repertorio Español, located in the Rose Hill neighborhood of Manhattan. For more information, click here. Pablo Andrade will be directing the Luigi Laraia play Too Close. The production is being presented in June at the Evi Auditorium in the North West quadrant of Washington, District of Columbia.
David Ponce is co-starring in the Óscar Liera play Cúcara y Mácara. Directed by Juan Roca, it is scheduled for a May and June run at the Havanafama Teatro Estudio in Miami, Florida.
Aileene Pérez and Héctor Luis Rivera, shown at left, left to right, were featured in the Héctor Luis Sin Censura 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. Also mentioned for his work behind the scenes of the production is Raúl Rivera. 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.
Samuel Garnica and Mafer Rodríguez, shown at above left and above right, were mentioned in the Héctor Luis Sin Censura blog where their co-starring roles in the play Ni que nos vayamos nos podemos ir was noted. Written and directed by Lupe Gehrenbeck, the production will run in June at Santiago Rubio Hall in Manhattan's Chelsea neighborhood. To read the blog, which is in Spanish, click here. Fabián Zarta associate produced the film Finding God. Written and directed by Brittany Franklin, the film will premiere at Cannes Film Festival's Short Film Corner in Cannes, France. To see a trailer for the film, click on the video below.
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?
Bochinche refers to “gossip”. In this sense, we use it to mentionHOLAmembers 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. The Corezon production of Federico Roca's Seis (directed by Pablo Andrade, shown at right) won Best Production at the 2017 FuerzaFest LGBTQ+ Festival, which was produced by the Hispanic Federation and took place in May at the Julia De Burgos Performance and Arts Center in Manhattan's El Barrio neighborhood. Andrade also picked up a Best Director award and the production also picked up awards for Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Playwright (in a tie with Joselo Arroyo for his play Máscaras afuera, produced by Edna Lee Figueroa). For more information on the festival, click here. Caridad de la Luz (also known by her nom de poésie et de musiqueLa Bruja) recently performed at the Using Her Voice: A Performance event where she headlined alongside Mahogany L. Browne, Natalie Caro, Jane Gabriels, and Jess X. Snow. The event took place in May at Wave Hill, in the Riverdale area of The Bronx. For more information, click here. She will also be a special guest performer at the concert performance of Gilberto Velásquez (Don Sonero) on Sunday, May 27, 2017 at the West Gate Lounge in Nyack, New York. For more information, click here.
Cedric Leiba, Jr., shown at left, is co-starring in the Pregones-PRTT production of El Bolero Was My Downfall. Based on the Manuel Ramos Otero short story "Loca la de la locura", the piece was adapted and directed by Jorge B. Merced (who also stars), and will be presented in June at Pregones Theater, located in the Mott Haven section of the South Bronx. For more information, click here. Gabriela García, Joseph Meléndez, Olga Merediz, Luis Salgado and Allison Strong are among the Broadway veterans who appear in the R.Evolución Latina webseries "Faces of Broadway". To see the first two webisodes, click on the videos below.
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?
Bochinche refers to “gossip”. In this sense, we use it to mentionHOLAmembers 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. Caridad del Valle, shown at right, booked a commercial (and accompanying print ad campaign) for the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (NYCHealth) after reading the casting notice in the e-mail announcements HOLA sends to its members and self-submitting. Raquel Almazán will have her play La Paloma Prisoner presented in a workshop reading by Hi-ARTS and La Lucha Arts. The play will be directed by Estefanía Fadul, co-star Almazán, Gilbert Cruz, Adriana Sananes, and Mônica Steuer, and take place in May at Hi-ARTS, located at the ArtSpace PS 109 space in Manhattan's El Barrio neighborhood. For more information on the presentation, click here.
Inma Heredia, shown at left, will present a special one-night-only performance of her self-penned solo show Divas de España. Directed by Adolfo Vásquez, the show will take place on Friday, April 28, 2017 at Thalía Hispanic Theatre, located in the Sunnyside neighborhood of Queens. For more information, click here. Pablo García Gámez was interviewed by Javier E. Gómez on the latter's talk show "Diálogo abierto" (BronxNet) where the former spoke on the Callback Series 2017 which is being presented in May at Teatro Círculo, located in Manhattan's East Village (García Gámez's own play, Olvidadas, directed by Diego Chiri and starring Rosie Berrido, is represented in the series. To watch the interview, which is in Spanish, click on the video below (the interview begins at 06:27).
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?
Bochinche refers to “gossip”. In this sense, we use it to mentionHOLAmembers 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.
Maite Uzal, shown at right, was interviewed in the Spaniard daily paper El Correo Gallego, where she spoke on her life and career as an actress and singer in New York. To read the article, which is in Spanish, click here. April is National Poetry Month and two HOLA members (who also happen to be poets) were featured in two different blogs. [Shown below, left to right, in the photo below left: A.B. Lugo, Caridad de la Luz "La Bruja" at a recent HOLA Awards ceremony.] • Caridad de la Luz (also known by her nom de poésie et de musiqueLaBruja) was featured in the APlus blog, which talked about her career as poet-actress-singer-activist. To read the blog, click here. • A.B. Lugo was the featured poet in the Latina Book Club blog, which also features two excerpts of poems featured in his debut solo collection Spanish Coffee: Black, No Sugar (published by La Casita Grande Press). The book is currently available for pre-orders, with an official release date of Tuesday, May 9, 2017. For more information on the book (including how to pre-order), click here. To read the blog, click here.
Iván Argudo (shown at above left with his wife Nila Murillo de Argudo) and Arisleyda Lombert (shown at above right) were named among the best dressed at the recent Latin Alternative Theater Awards (LATAs) according to the Héctor Luis Sin Censura resident fashionista Raúl Rivera, shown at right. To read about who else made the cut, click here (note that the blog is in Spanish).
Rosie Berrido was interviewed by Rhina Valentín on the latter's talk show "Open" (BronxNet), where the former spoke about her diction coaching workshop Rosie's Rules, taking place on Saturday, April 22, 2017 at PUNTO Space (located in the fashion district of midtown Manhattan). To see the interview, click on the video below.
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?
Bochinche refers to “gossip”. In this sense, we use it to mentionHOLAmembers 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. Andrea Navedo, shown at right, was featured in an article in People magazine regarding her health and nutrition regimen. To read the article, click here. Gualterio Alomar is directing the documentary Colonization is Extinction, which deals with the status of Puerto Rico as a commonwealth/colony of the United States. For more information, and to see two trailers of the documentary, click here.
Rhina Valentín honored four Latinas who were both mothers and entrepreneurs (dubbed "mompreneurs") through her MNN television series "Colors of Rhina" for a Women's History Month event on Wednesday, March 1, 2017 at the Bronx Museum of the Arts (located in the Morrisania section of the Bronx). The NYC Mothers Flo Award honorees were Evette Ríos, April Hernández-Castillo, Shirley Rodríguez, and Verónica Caicedo. In addition, each (including Valentín) received a certificate of appreciation from State Senator Gustavo Rivera. [Pictured, left to right, in the photo at above left: Caicedo, Ríos, Valentín, Hernández-Castillo, Rodríguez.] Héctor Palacios co-wrote and will star in and co-produce the feature film Buga (co-written, co-produced and directed by Juan Carlos Londoño). The film is currently in pre-production. For more information, click here, or look at the trailer below.
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?
Bochinche refers to “gossip”. In this sense, we use it to mentionHOLAmembers 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.
Claudio Weisz, shown at right, was featured in the New York weekly newspaper El Especial, as a result of his starring role in the Corezón production of Julio Ramón Ribeyro's El uso de la palabra. Directed by Diego Chiri and produced by Pablo Andrade, Yessi Hernández and Chiri, the two-hander also stars Javier Figuera and will be presented as part of the second season of Teatro SEA's Micro Teatro New York festival, which will run February through April at Teatro SEA's namesake theater in The Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural and Educational Center (home to HOLA) in Manhattan's Loísaida neighborhood. To read the article, which is in Spanish, click here.
Manuel A. Morán, Indra Palomo, and Omar Peláez, shown clockwise from left, were featured in the Héctor Luis Sin Censura blog (edited by Héctor Luis Rivera) as a result of their participation in the new production from Teatro SEA. Titled La verdadera historia de Caperucita/The True Story of Little Red, it is written, directed and produced by Morán (with original music by Iván Alexander Bautista), features the acting talents of Palomo and Peláez, among others. The production will take place in March and April at Teatro SEA's namesake theater in The Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural and Educational Center (home to HOLA) in Manhattan's Loísaida neighborhood. To read the blog, which is in Spanish, click here.
Elizardi Castro appeared with Emeline Ramos (shown right to left, in the photo at right) in the HOLAciudad! Orlando blog where his comedy video titled "Tubo de pasta de dientes– ¿Por el medio o por debajo?" about the classic conundrum regarding which way to squeeze toothpaste out of a tube (from the middle or the front). To read the blog and see the accompanying video, which are both in Spanish, click here. Marco Antonio Rodríguez and Dalia Davi were interviewed by former HOLA honoree Lynda Baquero for the NBC New York program "Visiones", where they spoke about the production of En el nombre de Salomé (adapted by Rodríguez from the Julia Álvarez novel, directed by José Zayas, and which co-stars Jesús E. Martínez, Johary Ramos, and Jerry Soto), currently running at the Repertorio Español in the Rose Hill neighborhood of Manhattan. To see the interview, click here or on the video below.
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?
Mônica Steuer, shown at right, is starring in the Robby Ramos play Alpha66. Directed by Jake Turner, the play will be presented in July at T. Schreiber Studio and Theatre, located in Manhattan's Chelsea neighborhood. For more information, click here.
Marina Catalán, Alicia Cerón, and Julissa Román were highlighted in the New York daily newspaper El Diario/La Prensa, as a result of them starring in the LaMicro Theater production of Leonardo González's play Nanas. Produced by Berioska Ipinza and Pietro González (also featured in the article), the recently shuttered play was directed by Tatiana Pandiani and took place in June at IATI Theater, located in Manhattan's East Village. To read the article, which is in Spanish, click here. [Clockwise from above left in the image at left: Catalán, Cerón, Román, González.]
