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The only line that's wrong in Shakespeare is, 'holding a mirror up to nature.' You hold a magnifying glass up to nature. As an actor you just enlarge it enough so that your audience can identify with the situation. If it were a mirror, we would have no art. 
Montgomery Clift

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2025 American Blues Theatre/Blue Ink Playwright Awards Winners
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Photo credit Kevin Cristaldi
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Downtown Urban Arts Festival Playwrights 2023

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 "Los Abandonados/The Abandoned" 2022 - 12th Annual International Puerto Rican Heritage Film Festival Best Screenplay award
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TGIF Can't Get Here Soon Enough - NYC rehearsal at ART/NY 2021

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Photo credit: Thomas Dunn

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Photo Credit: Monique Carboni
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Photo Credit: Monique Carboni
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 Photo Credit: John Concado

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Photo Credit: Chris Kateff

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Rinkska Carrasco Prestinary and Edgar Sanchez in scene from "In Da Boogie Down "  Urban Theater Company's R.A.W. (Real. Aggressive. Writing) in Chicago 2013 Directed by Marilyn Camacho


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 AfterLoss - 2010 Downtown Urban Arts Theatre Festival at HERE, NYC

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Write Out Front: A playwright happening at Drama Book Store, NYC 2012

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The Art of Feeback: A Panel Discussion with playwrights at Simple Studios, NYC 2012
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Karen Sours as Andrea Rivera and Kevin Prowse as Danny Santiago during "Undertow" rehearsals at Dramatist Guild, NYC 2012

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"To Fool The Eye", Boomerang Theatre Company at TheatreLab, NYC 2013

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Rehearsal photo from "Don Pedro De La Cebolla" part of Interart Theatre Development Series and Royal Family Productions Emerging Directors Program, NYC 2012

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Cast (along with our director, Rachael Harrington) of "Don Pedro De La Cebolla" part of Interart Theatre Development Series and Royal Family Productions Emerging Directors Program, NYC 2012

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 Benefit reading of Charles Ludlum's Der Ring Gott Farblonjet, A masterwork - NYC 2015
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Rehearsals for "By The Dawn's Early Light: Los Embrujados/The Haunted Ones" Apple Core Theatre Company, NYC 2011
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Rehearsals " By The Dawn's Early Light" Apple Core Theatre Company
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Apple Core Theatre Company's "By The Dawn's Early Light" Talk-Back with NY Life Group at Theatre Row Studio Theatre, NYC 2011
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Scene from "By The Dawn's Early Light: Midnight Mass" Apple Core Theatre Company, NYC 2011 (photo credit Joey Castillo)
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"Solo Man Watusi" rehearsals Downtown Urban Theatre Festival at HERE, NYC 2009
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"Brazil" CASES Insight Project Company at INTAR/Theatre Row, NYC 2008
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"Brazil" InSight CASES Insight Project Company at INTAR/Theatre Row, NYC 2008
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Ridiculous Theatrical Company's production of Charles Ludlum's "How to Write a Play" at the Charles Ludlum Theatre, NYC 1993
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Ridiculous Theatrical Company's production of "How to Write a Play" at the Charles Ludlum Theatre, NYC 1993
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Cast of Ridiculous Theatrical Company's production of Charles Ludlum's "How to Write a Play" at the Charles Ludlum Theatre, NYC 1993
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"Elliot, A Soldier's Fugue", at LUNA Stage, Montclair NJ 2008

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Talk back premiere screening of "The Children of Hip Hop" at Poet's Gallery NYC, 2013

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Table work for "Full Moon Inside a Red Sky", BrooklynOne Productions, NYC 2013

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Voices Inside/Out: Reflections with Mel Nieves at Davenport Studios, NYC 2013 producers/Artistic directors: Lanie Zipoy and Synge Maher

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Voices Inside/Out Playwright residency. NYC 2013
producers/Artistice directors: Lanie Zipoy and Synge Maher
Photo by Chris Kateff

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Actors Studio, Inc./Playwright-Director Unit Q & A
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Actors Studio, Inc. NYC
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NY Madness at Kraine Theatre 2016

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2014 Barefoot Theatre Company Retreat
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2017 Barefoot Theatre Company

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