ONEONTA, N.Y. -- Carmelita Tropicana, the stage character created by Cuban-born writer and performer Alina Troyano, will appear in the Center for Multicultural Experiences in Lee Hall at the SUNY College at Oneonta at 7 p.m. on Monday, November 10. Admission to the event, entitled "Carmelita Tropicana: Performing Between Cultures," is complimentary, and members of the community are invited to attend.
Carmelita Tropicana (Alina Troyano) received an Obie for Sustained
Excellence in Performance in 1999. Her book, I, Carmelita
Tropicana–Performing Between Cultures, offers the first comprehensive
collection of her work, including "Memories of the Revolution, a play
co-written with long-time collaborator and director Uzi Parnes; "Your Kunst
is Your Waffen," a film script written with director Ela Troyano that won
the Berlin Film Festival in 1994; and the science fiction play "Chicas
2000."
"Milk of Amnesia," her most anthologized solo, was presented at Yale University in 2007 and was part of El Museo del Barrio's Exhibit, "Arte No Es Vida 2008." "With What Ass Does the Cockroach Sit?" directed by David Schweizer, was produced by the International Arts Relations (INTAR) Theater in 2004 and presented at Northwestern University in 2008. Her collaboration with Marga Gomez directed by David Schweizer, "Single Wet Female," was nominated for a GLAAD award from the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation.
Alina Troyano has received a number of awards and fellowships, including the Anonymous Was a Woman Award, the Cuban Arts Foundation fellowship, the Mark Taper Forum's Latino Initiative fellowship, the CINTAS Foundation fellowship, and fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts for screenwriting/playwriting and for performance art. Her work has been supported by the New York State Council on the Arts, the Jerome Foundation, Latino Public Broadcasting, and Independent Television Services. She serves as Associate Artistic Director of the INTAR Theater and on the Board of Directors of the not-for-profit arts center Performance Space 122.
Carmelita Tropicana's appearance at SUNY Oneonta is sponsored by the College's Africana and Latino Studies Department and Center for Multicultural Experiences with support from the Public Events Committee.
More information about the event is available from Dr.
Karina Cespedes of the SUNY Oneonta Africana and Latino Studies
Department at (607) 436-3231.
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For more information about the College, please call the Community Relations Office at (607) 436-2748 or send e-mail to Carol Blazina, Vice President for Community Relations.SUNY College at Oneonta - Ravine Parkway - Oneonta, NY 13820 - 607.436.3500
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