By Tio Louie Louis E. Perego Moreno
New York, NY – José Roldan Jr.’s Award-Winning solo show Father Forgive Me For I Have Sinned is back for its second run at The Nuyorican Poets Café in Alphabet City.
Actor José Roldan Jr
Father Forgive Me For I Have Sinned is a coming-of-age autobiographical solo piece written and performed by José Roldan which tells the story of a Latino boy who grew up in the South Bronx of New York City during the 1980’s and ‘90’s.
For an in-depth interview with Roldan about his play CLICK HERE.
In a moving performance, José straddles the inner struggles of being a gay man while defying negative cultural stereotypes about his sexual identity. He channels some of his most memorable family members including his sister, a freestyle drama queen from the Bronx, his Bruja Tia (Auntie Witchie-poo) who has mastered the art of how to keep a man, his quintessentially macho father, as well as his off-the-wall fire-spitting Puerto Rican mother. José gives you his NYC Latino version of All In The Family sprinkled with South Bronx soul and riotous clashes, which all takes place in a family living room. Ultimately, the show ends on an inspirational high as José finally finds self- acceptance in the midst of his inner struggle.
José Roldan is an award-winning actor and playwright. He is a recipient of a number of awards including Best Actor and Best Solo Production in the 2014 Paul Michael’s The Network One Act Festival and Outstanding Solo Performance at the 2013 Hispanic Organization for Latin Actors annual award gala. José completed his studies in the arts at Lehman College, where he wrote his award-winning solo show. After completing his B.A., José was accepted into a two-year intensive Meisner Technique program, at the Elizabeth Mestnik Acting Studio in Hollywood, California.
Rosie Berrido, is the director and is also owner and founder of Rosie’s Rules. She is a recipient of 8 HOLA awards, several ACE awards and a Pan-Pacific Film award. She translated and adapted John Leguizamo’s Broadway hit Ghetto Klown into the Spanish language. She also directed the award-winning one man show La familia de Emanuel and Series for Women at Instituto Cervantes, among others. She is an active member of Repertorio Espanol since 1999.
Where: The Nuyorican Poets Café – 236 E. 3rd Street, New York, NY 10009
When: Every Thursday through Saturday, March 10th through March 19th at 7 pm And Saturday March 26th at 7 pm
For more information visit http://www.nuyorican.org/calendar/
Louis E. Perego Moreno is founder & Executive Producer of PRIME LATINO MEDIA, the largest network of Latino multimedia-makers and actors on the East Coast that hosts the PRIME LATINO MEDIA Salón, metro-New York's only monthly network gathering in which over 60 narrative & documentary filmmakers, programmers, casting agents, TV & digital media producers and actors have been interviewed. An interactive content producer and educator who for the past 34 years has owned Skyline Features, a bilingual (English and Spanish-language) multimedia and educational production company developing documentaries, television programming and advertising commercials featuring Latinos, Blacks, Women, Urban Youth and LGBT. Created a non-profit video training program with 1,500 Latino and Black Youth that over the course of ten years produced 70 documentary shorts on social, public and mental health issues.
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