The largest National Latina/o Theater Festival in over 25 years October 12 – November 10, 2014
The Los Angeles Theatre Center (LATC), in association with the Latino Theatre Commons (LTC), is proud to announce the 2014 LATC Encuentro: A National Latino Theatre Festival. This groundbreaking festival will be the first national Latino theater festival in over 25 years, bringing together 100 artists from across the country to explore the aesthetic, thematic, and cultural diversity in the field. The overarching question the festival seeks to address through performances and discussions is – “What is the State of Latino Theater today?” The festival offers an exciting range of productions including Pulitzer Prize winning plays, English and Spanish language plays, devised theater, experimental work, community based plays and solo plays.
This festival will celebrate the richness of contemporary Latino theatre in the U.S. of over a dozen selected companies from across the country that will perform in repertory over four weeks at the historic Los Angeles Theatre Center. The Festival participants were chosen through an open application process by a selection committee made up of Latino Theatre Commons Steering Committee members. The selected companies provide a snapshot of national contemporary Latina/o theatre practice.
The final weekend of the Encuentro will also serve as the second Latino Theatre Commons National Convening, November 6-9, where over 50 influential Latino theater practitioners and scholars will come to Los Angeles to view the festival offerings, including the newly co-created cross-company work. The convening participants will engage in dialogue around aesthetics and art-making, and strategize the implementation of ongoing and future initiatives in support of the continued vibrancy of the field.
Selected for the Encuentro Theater Festival include:
About Productions – Properties of Silence by Theresa Chavez, Alan Pulner & Rose Portillo. Directed by Theresa Chavez. (Los Angeles)
Aurora Theater – Mariela en el desierto (Mariela in the desert) by Karen Zacarias. Directed by Tlaloc Rivas. (Atlanta, GA)
Borderlands Theater – Maria’s Circular Dance by Medrano Treviño. Directed by Eva Zorrilla Tessler. (Tucson, AZ)
Caborca Theater – Zoetrope Part I Written and Directed by Javier Gonzalez (New York, NY)
INTAR Theatre / Unit 52– Patience, Fortitude and Other Antidepressants by Mariana Carreño King. Directed by Daniel Jáquez. (New York, NY)
The Latino Theater Company – Premeditation by Evelina Fernández. Directed by José Luis Valenzuela (Los Angeles, CA)
Marissa Chibas – Daughter of a Cuban Revolutionary Written by Marissa Chibas. Directed by Mira Kinglsey (Los Angeles, CA)
Pregones Theater – Dancing in my cockroach killers by Magdalena Gomez. Directed by Rosalba Rolon (The Bronx, NY)
Rickerby Hinds – Dreamscape Written and Directed by Rickerby Hinds (Riverside, CA)
Su Teatro – Enrique’s Journey by Written and Directed by Anthony Garcia (Denver, CO)
Tantai Teatro – Agua a cucharadas (Water by the Spoonful) by Quiara Alegria Hudes. Directed by Ismanuel Rodriguez (San Juan, Puerto Rico)
El Teatro Campesino – La Esquinita U.S.A. by Ruben Gonzalez. Directed by Kinan
Valdez. (San Juan Bautista, CA)
Teatro Luna – Your Problem With Men by Emilio Williams. Directed by Alexandra Meda. (Chicago, IL)
Theater Mitu – Juarez: A Documentary Mythology Written and Directed by Ruben Polendo (New York/Abu Dhabi)
Staged Readings and Presentations
Cornerstone Theater Company – reading of Alisal by Cornerstone Theater Company and Juliette Carrillo. (Los Angeles, CA)
South Coast Repertory – reading of Dialogue/Diálogos by José Cruz González. A two-year bilingual theatre project to gather and tell the stories of the Santa Ana Latino community. (Santa Ana, CA)
Additional Programming held at local Latina/o Theaters
Casa 0101 – Julius Cesar by William Shakespeare. Directed by Robert Beltran
Frida Kahlo Theater – Las Mujeres de Juarez Written and Directed by Rubén Amavizca-Murúa
Bilingual Foundation of the Arts – Lara, el flaco de oro by Margarita Galban & Lina Montalvo. Directed by Margarita Galban
The Los Angeles Film Festival will be held at the LATC is located at 514 S. Spring Street, Los Angeles, CA 90013 in Downtown’s Historic Core. For info and tickets for all events will be available at (866) 811-4111 or online at www.thelatc.org
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