Hispanic Organization of Latin Actors (HOLA) presents
HOLAtalks
with DAVID ZAYAS (“Dexter”) on December 17, 2012
and HOLAfestival
of staged play readings by HOLA member-playwrights
FLORENCIA LOZANO, ALFONSO RAMÍREZ and ALBERTO
BONILLA
on December 18, 19 and 20, 2012
All
events will take place December 17-20, 2012
at
Teatro LATEA, 107 Suffolk Street, NYC
November
30, 2012 (New York, New York)— The Hispanic Organization of Latin Actors (HOLA) presents its next HOLAtalks
event, a discussion with star of stage and screen David Zayas on Monday, December 17, 2012.
Zayas, currently playing Ángel Batista on Showtime’s “Dexter”, will be
interviewed by filmmaker Louis Perego Moreno (a.k.a. Tío Louie), host of the Prime Latino Media
Salon. The HOLAtalks event will kick off the 2012 HOLAfestival (a series of staged play readings
by HOLA member-playwrights Florencia
Lozano, Alfonso
Ramírez and Alberto
Bonilla), taking
place Tuesday-Thursday, December 18-20, 2012. All events will take place at Teatro LATEA, 107
Suffolk Street (between Rivington and Delancey streets), Second Floor in
Manhattan’s Lower East Side in New York. Suggested admission for the events is $10
for each event ($5 for HOLA and NALIP members/Friends of HOLA). Reservations are strongly recommended. To make a reservation, call HOLA at (212) 253-1015.
David
Zayas is a star of stage and screen. His early career began while he was still a police officer. It was
training that would serve him well given the fact that he was often cast
as a cop. Having won roles
in television and film, he quickly reached a point in his career where it seemed that
acting was truly his calling, and he was able to leave the police force and
focus solely on performing. He won raves as the terrifying and powerful
prisoner Enrique Morales, from HBO's “OZ”. A member of the LAByrinth Theater Company, he had his Broadway debut in Nilo
Cruz’s Pulitzer Prize-winning drama Ana in the Tropics. He can currently be seen playing
Ángel Batista in the hit Showtime series “Dexter.” In October, he received the 2012 HOLA José Ferrer Tespis Award and in November, he received a 2012 Latin Trendsetter Award from Latin Trends magazine.
Louis
Perego Moreno
(a.k.a. Tío Louie)
is an interactive content producer and educator who for the past 31 years has
owned Skyline Features, a bilingual (English- and Spanish-language) multimedia
and educational production company focusing on culture, women, urban youth and
health. His area of specialty is developing documentaries, television programming
and advertising commercials featuring Latinos, Blacks, Women, Urban Youth and
LGBT people. He custom-tailors content for multiplatform media: television, internet,
print, radio and public venues. He has trained 1,500 Latino and Black Youth
over 10 years to produce 70 documentary shorts addressing social, public and
mental health issues. He takes many of the documentary shorts, as well as
features and speaks at colleges and universities nationally. For two years he
was the President of the National Association of Latino Independent Producers
in New York (NALIP) and now produces PRIME LATINO MEDIA SALON, New York's only
monthly gathering of Latino multimedia-makers and actors. He also serves on the
Board of Advisors for the Center for Latino Arts & Culture at Rutgers
University.
The HOLAtalks event was founded in 2009 with a simple concept: have a Latino celebrity be interviewed about his/her life and career in front of an audience, followed by a question and answer period. Previous HOLAtalks event have featured award-winning performers such as Daphne Rubin-Vega, Tony Plana and Lauren Vélez.
The HOLAtalks event with David Zayas (interviewed by Louis Perego
Moreno “Tío
Louie”) will take
place on Monday, December 17, 2012 at 7pm.
This
year’s HOLAfestival will feature work by HOLA member-playwrights Florencia
Lozano, Alfonso
Ramírez and Alberto
Bonilla. The
HOLAfestival
was originally created in 1983 as a series of showcase theatrical productions
and musical evenings by and for HOLA members.
The last of the original HOLAfestival
series occurred in
1990.
In
2011, HOLA decided
to revive the HOLAfestival
as a series of staged play readings written by HOLA
member-playwrights and featuring the acting talents of HOLA members. The plays
and their descriptions are listed below.
2012 HOLAfestival of staged play readings
girl
in window
un
descanso*
(for a
woman and a man)
* spanish: resting place,
a memorial commemorating the site of a violent, unexplained death.
Written by Florencia
Lozano
Tuesday,
December 18, 2012 at 7:30pm
Toxic Saints
On the eve of her 65th
birthday, Dolores Santos shows signs of early Alzheimer’s. Her three sons and
daughter— begrudgingly reunited to hammer out decisions regarding her palliative
care and nothing has changed in the family dynamic; they still fight old
battles and infantilize each other, despite being middle-aged and living worlds
apart. A secret revealed about Dolores’ past thwarts plans and threatens their
mutual fate.
Written by Alfonso
Ramírez
Wednesday, December 19, 2012 at 7:30pm
María
María has been working on a
translation of Medea
for four years; it is her life's work. When her husband Jay and their daughter Pandora
go to New York to mount the production on Broadway, the producers decide to bring in a television star. María now has to be the
understudy for the dream role she has worked on, and after finding out about Jay and the star’s
relationship, art imitates life in this epic tragicomedy.
Written by
Alberto Bonilla
Thursday, December
20, 2012 at 7:30pm
The Hispanic Organization
of Latin Actors (HOLA) presents HOLAtalks with DAVID ZAYAS and the 2012 HOLAfestival,
to take place December 17-20, 2012 at Teatro LATEA, 107 Suffolk Street (between
Rivington and Delancey streets), Second Floor in Manhattan’s Lower East Side in
New York. Suggested admission for the events is $10 for each event ($5 for HOLA and NALIP members/Friends of HOLA). Reservations are strongly recommended. To make a reservation, call the HOLA office at (212) 253-1015.
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