DOS ALAS
THEATRE
MISSION
- LA MISIÓN
Founded
in 2007, Dos Alas Theatre is dedicated to producing and researching
Cuban
and Puerto Rican theatre throughout the United States. Dos Alas
interprets the
wings
mentioned in Lola Rodríguez de Tiós poem as the
wings of a stage,
performing
a rich overlay, bringing one
culture in dialogue with the other.
Fundada
en 2007, Teatro Dos
Alas es dedicado a producir e investigar
el
teatro cubano y
puertorriqueño a través de los Estados Unidos. Dos
Alas interpreta
las
alas
mencionadas en el poema
por Lola Rodríguez de Tió como las alas de un
escenario, realizando un
diálogo entre las dos culturas.
Jason
Ramírez, Co-Founding Artistic
Director
A Bronx native, Jason
holds memberships in Actors Equity Association, the Society of Stage
Directors and Choreographers and the Hispanic Organization of
Latin Artists. His latest play, Passing Judgment, was recently
published by Ateneo Press and his scholarship on Latino theatre has
been published in Aztlan
Journal of Chicano Studies and Theatre
Journal.
His dramatic work has been produced at the Mark Taper Forum, La Mama
E.T.C., The Point, Theatre for a New City,
The Nuyorican Poet’s Café, The Henry Street Settlement, The
Julia de Burgos Latino Cultural Center, Aaron Davis Hall, Ford
Ampitheatre, El Puente, and at theatre
festivals in Chile and Puerto Rico. He has been the recipient of
grants
from the National Endowment for the Arts, New York State Council of the
Arts, Professional
Staff Congress, Bronx Council on the Arts, National Puerto Rican Forum,
NBWNRA, and the
Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund. Jason is currently
on
the staff of both the Puerto Rican Traveling Theatre’s Professional
Playwrights Unit and
INTAR’s Hispanic Playwrights in Residence Lab.
Kimberly
del Busto, Co-Founding Artistic
Director
A Miami native,
Kimberly, the daughter of Operation Pedro Pan exile Marta Elena del
Busto, is
a Centro Caribe/CUNY Caribbean Exchange Grant
recipient completing her doctoral dissertation The Lost Apple Plays: Performing
Operation Pedro Pan at the CUNY Graduate Center. She is Adjunct
Professor of Theatre at Marymount Manhattan College, a
playwright-in-residence at Tribeca Performing Arts Center /
America-in-Play and composing Pulga,
a play about an immigrant piñata maker in the rural American
South. Her plays have been presented at venues including the Kennedy
Center, Teatro del Pueblo,
WOW Café Theatre, Primary Stages Studios, Arthur Saleen Theatre,
Southeastern Theatre Conference, 21st Century Playwrights Festival, the
Hippodrome State
Theatre, Edward Albee’s Great Plains Theatre Fest Long Play Lab, and
the Latin
American Theatre Today Festival. She holds an M.F.A. in Playwriting
from the University of Georgia and is a member of the Dramatists Guild
and the
International Centre for Women Playwrights.
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