DOS ALAS THEATRE
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.
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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