HOLA Member Bochinche

Bochinche refers to "gossip". In this sense, we use it to highlight 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.

Ana Roshelle Díaz, Daniel Anthony Hidalgo and Zahydé Pietri, shown at right, from left to right, are co-starring in La entrevista. Written by Antonio A. Méndez, the Teatro Las Tablas production is directed by Yolanny Rodríguez, and will be presented in June at the Teatro Rafael Villalona at El Comisionado Dominicano de Cultura en EEUU, located in Manhattan's Washington Heights neighborhood. [Díaz, Hidalgo and Pietri received their roles after reading the production's casting direction in the daily e-mail announcements HOLA sends to its members and self-submitting.]

Gabriela García and Luis Salgado, shown at left, from left to right, were profiled in Bleep magazine, where they were interviewed about their careers as triple threat performers (actor-singer-dancer) as well as their roles as co-founders of R.Evolución Latina, which is about to premiere its 2016 Choreographers Festival (titled "Bountiful: A Teacher's Journey"), which features choreography by García and concept and direction by Salgado. The festival is scheduled to take place in April and May at Manhattan Movement and Art Center (MMAC) in Manhattan's West Side. To read the article, click here.

Angie Regina, shown at right, in photo at right, is performing as the title character in La danza de Mingó. Produced by Otro Teatro NY, the play is written by Haffe Serulle and directed by Billy Martin Mejía, shown at left, in photo at right. The production took place in April at the Esperanza Academy as part of the VI Festival de Teatro Lawrence, Massachusetts. For more information, click here. 

Mario Golden, Vivienne Jurado, and A.B. Lugo, shown at left, from left to right, were featured in Broadway World, where their co-starring roles in the Domnica Rădulescu play Exile is My Home is highlighted. Produced by Theater for the New City (with support from OneHeart Productions), the play is having its world premiere and will be directed by Andreas Robertz. The play also stars Nikaury Rodríguez, Noemí de la Puente, David Van Leesten, and Mirandy Rodríguez, and will run in April and May at the Theater for the New City in Manhattan's East Village. To read the article, click here. For more information on the production, click here, here or 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?

Danny Burstein, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Ana Villafañe Among Those Nominated For 2016 Drama League Awards

The Drama League announced the 2016 Drama League Awards nominees on Wednesday, April 20, 2016 at an event hosted by Tony Award winner James Monroe Iglehart, Adam Jacobs and Courtney Reed (all cast members of the Broadway musical Aladdin) at the world famous bar Sardi's. The nominations, which include Broadway and off-Broadway productions, kick off a month of celebrations leading up to the 82nd annual Drama League Awards ceremony, which will be hosted by Megan Hilty and Zachary Levi and held at the Marriott Marquis Times Square on Friday, May 20, 2016.

Marco Ramírez's play The Royale is nominated for Outstanding Production of a Broadway or Off-Broadway Play. Also nominated in that category is Dominique Morriseau's Skeleton Crew, which was directed by Rubén Santiago-Hudson. They are nominated with a field of off-Broadway and Broadway offerings– Anne Washburn's 10 Out of 12, Danai Gurira's Eclipsed, Florian Zeller's The Father, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins' Gloria, Taylor Mac's Hir, Stephen Karam's The Humans, Mike Bartlett's King Charles III, and Jordan Harrison's Marjorie Prime. [At left: Ramírez.]

Interesting to note that Latinos are prominent in the category of Outstanding Production of a Broadway or Off-Broadway Musical. They include Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa (who wrote the book to Duncan Sheik's musical American Psycho); César Álvarez (who wrote the book and lyrics, and co-composed the music with his band The Lisps, for Futurity); Lin-Manuel Miranda (who wrote the book, lyrics, and music to Hamilton); Alexander Dinelaris and the team of Gloria Estefan and Emilio Estefan (and Miami Sound Machine), for the book and score of On Your Feet! They are nominated alongside Steve Martin and Edie Brickell (Bright Star); Steven Levensen, Benj Pasek, and Justin Paul (Dear Evan Hansen); Todd Almond and Jenn Schwartz (iOW@); Andrew Lloyd Webber, Julian Fellowes, and Glenn Slater (School of Rock, the Musical); Claudia Shear, Tim Federle, Chris Miller and Nathan Tysen (Tuck Everlasting); and Sara Bareilles and Jessie Nelson (Waitress). [Above, clockwise from top left: Aguirre-Sacasa, Álvarez, Dinelaris, the Estefans. At above right: Miranda.]

Danny Burstein, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Lupita Nyong'o and Ana Villafañe are among the 50 nominees for the Distinguished Performance Award. Only one winner is selected from this category. The recipient can receive this award only once during his or her career. [Above, left to right: Burstein, Villafañe.]

First awarded in 1922 and formalized in 1935, the Drama League Awards are the oldest theatrical honors in America. They are the only major theatrical awards chosen by the ENTIRE theatre community– specifically, by the thousands of Drama League members nationwide who attend Broadway and off-Broadway productions. They recognize work in five competitive categories, including Distinguished Play, Distinguished Revival of a Play, Distinguished Musical, Distinguished Revival of a Musical, and Distinguished Performance. For more information on the Drama League Awards, click here or here.

HOLA Member Bochinche

Bochinche refers to "gossip". In this sense, we use it to highlight 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.

Roberto Sanábria, shown at right, is starring in the Maggie Bofill play Drawn and Quartered. Directed by Natasha Yannacañedo, the play is being presented in April and May by the Hostos Repertory Company at the Hostos Center for the Arts and Culture's Black Box Theater in the Mott Haven area of the South Bronx. For more information, click here.

Jeannie Sol was cast in the television pilot "And So They Say". Produced by Dramadeal Europe, the pilot will be shot in May in Florida.

Jesús E. Martínez, shown at left, was featured in El Blog de Pablo (edited by Pablo García Gámez) as a result of his co-starring role in The Desire of the Astronaut. Written and directed by Alvan Colón Lespier with original music by Desmar Guevara, the Pregones-Puerto Rican Traveling Theater production also features additional texts by Emily Dickinson and F. Scott Fitzgerald. The production will take place at Pregones Theater, which is located in the Mott Haven area of the South Bronx. To read the blog, which is in Spanish, click here. For more information on the production (including how to purchase tickets), click here.

Sejal Shah co-starred on the feature film Jack of the Red Hearts. Starring Annasophia Robb and Famke Janssen, the movie is written by Jennifer Deaton and directed by Janet Grillo and will air on the Lifetime network on Saturday, April 23, 2016. For more information on the film, 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?

HOLA Member Bochinche

Bochinche refers to "gossip". In this sense, we use it to highlight 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.

Daniel Anthony Hidalgo and Zahydé Pietri, shown above, left to right, are co-starring in La entrevista. Written by Antonio A. Méndez, the Teatro Las Tablas production is directed by Yolanny Rodríguez, and will be presented in June at the Teatro Rafael Villalona at El Comisionado Dominicano de Cultura en EEUU, located in Manhattan's Washington Heights neighborhood. [Hidalgo and Pietri received their roles after reading the production's casting direction in the daily e-mail announcements HOLA sends to its members and self-submitting.]

Vladimir Ríos is currently working on his next collaboration with photographer Lester Blum. A photographic and video series titled Invisible. A documentary photography project about everyone who feels “invisible” in today’s society, it will use photography and video to create a greater narrative about all those who deviate from the societal norm. For more information, click here.

Carla Caraballo was cast in the film The Airport Run (written and directed by Eliana Ujueta). For more information, click here or here.

Ángelo Mercado, Jr. booked a national commercial for Slim-Fast. To see the commercial, 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?

ON YOUR FEET!, Danny Burstein, Daphne Rubin-Vega, et al. Nominated for 2015-2016 Outer Critics Circle Awards

The Outer Critics Circle (OCC) kicked off the 2015-16 theater awards season on Tuesday, April 19, 2016 when Brian d'Arcy James and Jennfier Simard announced the list of OCC Awards nominations at the Algonquin Hotel in the theater district of midtown Manhattan.

On Your Feet!: The Story of Gloria and Emilio Estefan (written by Gloria Estefan, Emilio Estefan, and Alexander Dinelaris) received seven nominations (including one for Outstanding New Broadway Musical). Other nominations for the show include nods for HOLA Awards honoree Dinelaris, for Outstanding Book of a Musical (Broadway or Off-Broadway); Ana Villafañe, for Outstanding Actress in a Musical; Andréa Burns, for Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical; Sergio Trujillo, for Outstanding Choreographer; ESosa, for Outstanding Costume Design (Play or Musical). [Above, clockwise from above top left: Emilio and Gloria Estefan, Dinelaris, Villafañe, Burns, Trujillo, ESosa.]

Others nominated for Outer Critics Circle Awards this year include Matthew López, for Outstanding New Off-Broadway Play for The Legend of Georgia McBride, Marco Ramírez, for the John Gassner Playwriting Award for The Royale; former HOLA Awards honoree Danny Burstein, for Outstanding Actor in a Musical for Fiddler on the Roof; former HOLA Awards honoree Daphne Rubin-Vega, for Outstanding Solo Performance for Empanada Loca; and Academy Award winner Lupita Nyong'o for Outstanding Actress in a Play for Eclipsed. [At left: Nyong'o; above, clockwise from top left: López, Ramírez, Burstein, Rubin-Vega.

Note that only new elements of the productions Hamilton, Disaster!, and Blackbird, which were eligible in their off-Broadway incarnations, were considered for 2016 nominations. 

The winners will be announced on Monday, May 9, 2016 and the annual Gala Awards Dinner will be held at 4pm on Thursday, May 26, 2016 at Sardi's Restaurant in the theater district of midtown Manhattan.  The Outer Critics Circle is the organization of writers covering New York theatre for out-of-town newspapers, national publications and other media beyond Broadway representing more than 90 newspapers, magazines, radio and television stations, websites and theatre publications in America and abroad. They were begun during the 1949–1950 theatre season. The Outer Critics Circle nominations are the first major Broadway/Off-Broadway award nominations of the New York theatre season. For more information, click here or here.

HOLA Member Bochinche

Bochinche refers to "gossip". In this sense, we use it to highlight 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.

Caridad del Valle was profiled in the New York weekly newspaper Impacto Latin News, in an article by Manolo García Oliva, where her starring role in the Pablo García Gámez solo show Yo no soy Lupita was featured. Produced by Teátrica and directed by Leyma López, the show will be presented in May at the Broadway Blackbox Theater, located in Manhattan's Washington Heights neighborhood. To read the article, which is in Spanish, click on the image at right.

R.Evolución Latina is presenting a performance by the Peruvian dance group Proyecto Milagros (led by Harold Echevarría). It will take place on Sunday afternoon, April 24, 2016 at the Julia de Burgos Cultural Center in Manhattan's El Barrio neighborhood.

Luis Salgado, shown at left, was interviewed by Juan David Cardozo on the radio program "W Fin de Semana" (W Radio Colombia) where the actor-singer-dancer-choreographer-director-producer talked of how he made it to Broadway. (Salgado is currently in the cast of the Estefan-Estefan-Dinelaris Broadway musical On Your Feet!: The Story of Gloria and Emilio Estefan (currently playing at the Marquis Theatre). To hear the interview, which is in Spanish, click here. 

Modesto Flako Jiménez is starring in Bottom of the Scrum. Written by John Budge and directed by Charles Quittner, the play will be presented in May at Dixon Place in Manhattan's Loísaida neighborhood. 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?

HOLA Member Bochinche

Bochinche refers to "gossip". In this sense, we use it to highlight 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.

Luis Salgado, shown at right, was featured in Broadway World, where his role as creator and director of the R.Evolución Latina 2016 Choreographers Festival, was profiled. Titled Bountiful: A Teacher's Journey, it will feature the work of choreographers Valeria Cossu, Daniel Fetecua Soto, Gabriela García, Vania Masias, Matthew Steffens, Rebeca Tomás, Rickey Tripp, and Amanda Turner. The festival will take place in April and May at the Manhattan Movement and Art Center (MMAC) in Manhattan's West Side. To read the article, click here.

Anthony Ruiz stars in the film short Hasta mañana. Written and directed by Pedro Bermúdez, the film also stars Susanna Guzmán. The film will be screened (along with Jesse Allain-Marcus & Wade Allain-Marcus' French Dirty) on Sunday, April 24, 2016 at the Peter Jay Sharp Theater at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) in the Fort Greene section of Brooklyn as part of the BAMcinématek series New Voices in Black Cinema. For more information, click here.

Aileene Pérez was featured in the New York weekly newspaper La Voz Hispana, along with Iván L. Argudo, where they were both highlighted for their work acting (an all-HOLA member cast) in the José Martínez Queirolo play Q.E.P.D. (Que en paz descansen). Directed by Argudo and presented by Teatro Vanguardia USA, the play was presented in April as part of the first annual Festival de Comedias TEBA, presented by the Teatro Experimental Blue Amigos at the Broadway Blackbox Theater in Manhattan's Washington Heights neighborhood. To read the article, which is in Spanish, click on the image at above left.

Mario Golden and A.B. Lugo were interviewed, along with playwright Domnica Rădulescu, by Rhina Valentín on the talk show "Open" (BronxNet), where they spoke about the upcoming production Exile is My Home (in which Golden and Lugo co-star). Directed by Andreas Robertz and co-starring Vivienne Jurado, Noemí de la Puente, Nikaury Rodríguez, David van Leesten, and Mirandy Rodríguez, the play will be presented in April and May at the Theater for the New City (located in Manhattan's East Village). To see the interview, click on the image 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?