R.Evolución brings the minutes from Teatro Stage Fest Panel

Luis Salgado visits the great Teatro Stage Fest Panel with Graciela Daniele, Lin Manuel Miranda, Bianca Marroquin and Eugenio Derbez.

BIANCA MARROQUIN was born in Monterrey, Mexico, and raised on the border between Matamoros, Mexico and Brownsville, Texas. She started her artistic career in Mexico City in the productions of Disney's Beauty and the Beast, Rent, Phantom of the Opera, Vagina Monologues and Chicago. For her portrayal of Roxie Hart in Chicago Bianca received 5 awards from the Mexican Critics Associations including New Revelation and Best Actress. In the summer of 2002, Bianca was invited to crossover from Mexico to Broadway and made her debut with her English version of Roxie Hart and later kicked off Chicago's 3rd National Tour for which she received a Helen Hayes Award in Washington DC for Outstanding Lead Actress in 2004. After touring for two years she officially moves to New York to continue to pursue her career. She then originates the role of Carmen in the Revival Broadway Hit, Tony Award Winner, Pajama Game. You can listen to Bianca on the special edition of the 10th anniversary of Chicago CD performing a medley version of three of Roxie's songs in Spanish.

Lin-Manuel was born in New York City of Puerto Rican descent. He attended Hunter College High School and Wesleyan University. He founded a hip-hop theatre troupe called "Freestyle Love Supreme." Miranda also wrote, directed, and acted in an independent film called Clayton's Friends (1996). In 2007, Miranda made an appearance on an episode of television series The Sopranos.[1] Lin-Manuel has also worked as an English teacher at his old high school, written for the Manhattan Times as a columnist and restaurant reviewer, and composed for commercials.[2] In 2008, Lin-Manual was invited by composer/lyricist Stephen Schwartz to contribute two new songs to a revised version of Schwartz and Nina Faso's 1978 musical "Working" which opened in May at the Asolo Repertory Theater in Sarasota,

Graciela Daniele (born December 8, 1939 in Buenos Aires) is an Argentine dancer, choreographer, and theatre director. Daniele began her dance training at the age of seven at Teatro Colon, Argentina's equivalent of Moscow's Bolshoi Theatre. She later moved to Paris to continue her ballet studies, and while living there attended a performance of West Side Story, with Jerome Robbins's original choreography. Overwhelmed by the way dance was an integral part of the story-telling, she decided to move to New York City to study jazz and modern dance, styles she felt were best for express human emotions on stage.

Eugenio Derbez is unquestionably one of Mexico's best-known actors, the most recognized actor among the Spanish-speaking population in the United States, and most importantly, one of the most influential actors in Latin America. His TV shows maintain the highest ratings in the entire country, all well over a decade. Born in Mexico City, Eugenio Derbez is the son of one of the greatest cinema and television actresses in the history of Mexico, Sylvia Derbez. He began acting at 12 years of age and still today he continues to recreate and master his craft. His versatility and charisma as an actor, along with the freshness of his ideas, contribute to his ever expanding popularity. Due to his crossover appeal he has managed to capture the Hispanic market in the U.S. He has a degree in Film Directing from the Mexican Institute of Cinematography and Theater, as well as a degree in Acting from Televisa's Acting School. He has also studied and is trained in the arts of Dance, Music and Singing, and still today he continues prepping himself in L.A. and in New York City. Because of his superior recognition as a comedian by the Spanish-speaking population from South America to the U.S., Derbez has been working on crossing over and is proving to be a gifted performer to the English-speaking audiences as well. Although the bulk of his work has been performed in Spanish throughout Mexico and Latin America, he has gained rave reviews in the U.S. for his work in "Latinologues" in which he took part for almost two years.


PS
Very special thanks to Denisse Amber for working the camera.

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[cari3d]

que padre que suban estas cosas ya que no podemos ir!

Great stuff here, thanks for posting! it is cool to see!

[film4lyfe92]

was the reading of yemaya's belly recorded? if it was can that be uploaded? i read about it on the R.Evolucion myspace page and thought it was a cool idea for the funding of the summer arts program.

[YourOasis97]

now its my turn(haha): Oh my god! i'd love to! of course i would but how would we achieve that, since I see you live in NY while I live in Miami?

-Shani

[BroadwayBabyx2]

Luis, that's so great that you have created an organization like this and have been doing all these wonderful interviews and projects and whatnot! Congrats.

If you are taking any considerations for who to interview, I would love to see Mandy Gonzalez, Nina Lafarga...ok basically the rest of the In the Heights cast, haha (I'm a big fan of the show...you're a FANTASTIC dancer by the way!). I'd also love to see Natalie Cortez!

great job with everything =)

[ziggylu]

WAO! Thank You... I would love to reply to all of your questions... would you like to run the interview and we would be "going beyong" together?

What do you say?

Luis

[YourOasis97]

hmmm, well you asked and im answering, and im "daring to go beyond" as you keep on saying. lol but what about someone interviewing YOU Luis, and asking you questions like: what got you into dancing, why did you create an incredible organization, what was your motivation to create such an organization, and where did the idea come from, etc. :D

i would just like to see that because iam in awe of all that you do and to know why and how you did it would be great!

keep up the great work! <333

[ziggylu]

Teatro Stage fest is doing sucha a great Job with the Festival. YES! REPRESENT!

GRACIAS

Luis