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RAQUEL ALMAZAN

  
Nationality:    Spanish
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Literary Agent:    Josselyne Herman and Associates   & Judy Boals agency Inc

Raquel almazan is from Madrid , Spain and is also of Costa Rican descent, she's lived most of her life in the States and is now an emerging interdisciplinary artist. She holds a B.F.A. in Theatre from University of Florida and is a graduate of the New World School of the Arts Conservatory where she developed work as a writer, director, actor and Dramaturge. almazan has been writing for over fifteen years, coming from a playwriting background, she has been developing her own performance work throughout the last ten years. at PS 742, she served as Dramaturge and performed in anomie . almazan also directed a political comedy Zap! at the Green Door Gallery and a New World studio production of the Vagina Monologues . at the Louis O Gerrits Theatre, her play Junkyard Food starring (Terrell Mc Craney) was produced and also directed Heller's Portrait of My Brother for the New Playwrights Festival. For a Women's Forum moderated by Hilary Clinton, she wrote and performed a monologue in collaboration with dancer Stephanie Bastos. almazan served as Dramaturge and performed as Margaret in the multi- media production of Ur- Faust that toured to Hyterio Theatre in athens, Greece. She has received grants from the Ford Foundation, Manhattan Coummunity Fund, Tropiculture Miami, Miami Dade Cultural affairs, Florida Arts and the artist access Grant for her original writing/performance / residency development in playwriting. In addition to writing, almazan is also an accomplished actor. Some of her noted roles include Lady MacBeth in MacBeth , Mrs. Papov in Chekov's the Bear. She has also performed in her self written, one person shows, Death of the Doll and her multi-media project as the alpha Wolf where she plays a variety of female archetypes in She Wolves: Women in Sex, Death and Rebirth , recently part of the NYC Fringe Festival. as a performance artist she participates at social- political conferences and events to bring awareness to current female issues, including the National Women's Studies Conference, P.S. 122 and the Los Angeles Scope Arts conference. almazan has participated in acting workshops including Susan Grace Cohen, Lee Michael Cohen, Shakespeare with Peter Craze, Laban, Growtowski, Movement and Directing. She has also trained in Butoh, Biomechanics, Suzuki, Improv and Mask Work. Raquel has also participated in writing development workshops with David Mamet, Horton Foote and Julie Harris. She has work shopped her playwriting material with Edward albee and Jose RiverA. albee noted that almazan ". . .sure can write." She was selected as part of the Latino Writers Lab with the National association of Latin Independent Producers for her screenplay Death of the Doll, the short film that screened at the first annual Boyle Heights Latina Independent Film extravagANZa in L.A. and Naked angels Reading Series. Raquel is directing and acting in short films based on her performance pieces and has played a variety of characters in independent films, screened at CAnnes, HBO NYLIFF and Urban World Festivals. as well as the role of Maricela on NBC's Law & Order: SVU and Rita Campos on USA Network's White Collar.almazan workshops original work with writers/ performers, including as a facilitator with art Spring organization to incarcerated women in prison. as a teaching artist with LeaP she directs short plays with NYC Public school students off Broadway at New World Stages. With Manhattan Theatre Club and educational Play Productions she performs throughout NYC Schools. She teaches acting for Theatre/ camera at John Robert Powers. She is co-educational chair for Theatre east. almazan is also the artistic director of La Lucha Arts Group, dedicated to producing diverse new work in Theatre / film / dance / visual art / mediA. at (el Museo del Barrio) she played the lead in escaping Juarez, Deviant Borders as the male Chamuco, (New World Theatre Mass.) and reading of the Mother f**ker with the Hat (directed by Stephen adly Guirgis.) Her new plays as writer/ performer are Glossy Page Pimps (directed by Michael Garces) commissioned by Miami Light Project as a staged reading, and the Hopefulness/esperANZa in the 4 Caminos Festival at the Latino Cultural Center in NYC. Her plays the Hopefulness and La Paloma Prisoner participated in workshops with La Mama eTC, INTaR and Labyrinth Theatre Company. She is a proud member of the Dramatist Guild, SaG, aFTRa, and the Playwrights' Center, NaLIP, alternate Roots and the Hispanic Organization of Latin actors.

Research:    Member of the Dramatists Guild of America (as at 2015)

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below is a list of Raquel Almazan's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

        Alive Dead Baby         Cafe         Come Home For Dinner         Dar A Luz         Dead End Racket         Death Of the Doll         Glossy Page Pimps         Holding Soil         Hopefulness, The Or La EsperANZa         Junk Yard Food         La Migra Taco Truck         La Paloma Prisoner         Porning the Planet - the De-Sensitiz Nation Of A Generation         Pounding On Death's Door Without An Invitation         She Wolves: Women In Sex, Death & Rebirth         Three - Bit Hoods         Tom And Martha         Ur-Faust-A Lunatic Mythical Opera For the Millennium         Water Locked Between Us         When Can I Die So I Can Start Living