Rehearsals are now under way for Cuéntame Coyote — Milagro’s renewed touring production on stage from Jan 9 – 25, 2014. The cast, playwright-director and crew are working extra hours to bring us the moving story of two cousins ready to risk everything they have to make their dreams come true, as many others have tried before. Meet the cast behind the characters of the production and get your tickets today!

Maria, Alida Holguín Wilson-Gunn hails from Arizona, where she was director of Borderlands Theater’s Education Outreach Programs for the past 7 seasons.  As an actress some of her Borderlands credits include: Alice, Lidless; Jocasta, Oedipus el Rey and Christina, Electricidad, both by Luis Alfaro; Esmeralda, Earthquake Chica; Picuka, Oliver Mayer’s Conjunto; and the Bride, Bodas de Sangre. Other credits include: Kate, Rouge Theaters’ Immortal Longings; Frida Kahlo, Still Life with Chamber Music Plus; Abby, Fiction for Beowulf Alley (nominated for MAC award; best actress 06); Killer, Killer in Love with Camilla’s Theater, NY; and her own one-woman show Vein, NY.  Alida has also appeared in several independent films and television commercials.

El Coyote, ERUBIEL VALLADARES CARRANZA
Born in Queretaro, Mexico. He started as a street performer when he was still a teenager. Arriving in Oregon at age 18, he went on to receive a B.A. from Western Oregon University, aided by a 4 year grant from the David S. Brody Scholarship for Bicultural students. A former community organizer, community radio engineer for PCUN and project manager for CAPACES Leadership Institute, he returns to Milagro after his last performance in Milagro’s production The shrunken head of Pancho Villa (2005) and the stage reading of Machos (2013). Erubiel currently leads his own company focused on providing technological support to the Latino artist and the community.

Jose, Ajai Terrazas-Tripathi, is originally from Corvallis, Oregon, where he graduated from Oregon State University with a degree in Theatre Arts. During his time at OSU he performed in many memorable roles in such plays as Much Ado About Nothing, Woyzek, The Silent Woman, and An Adult Evening with Shel Silverstein.  Ajai has also directed and produced recently Stories of Discrimination, two original plays The Death Rattle, and The Anti-Bullying Project, both based on real life stories in Corvallis.  This is his fourth year with  Milagro touring as a performer and teaching artist, he also assists with grant writing and development efforts.

Various roles, Mariel Sierra, a recent graduate of the Portland Actors Conservatory, Mariel was a founding company member of Post5 Theatre, and engaged in many roles from from marketing to working as Production Manager for the inaugural production of Romeo & Juliet. Recent credits include various roles in Milagro Theatre’s Corrido Calavera,  Zillah in A Bright Room Called Day, Player King at Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead at the Portland Actors Conservatory, and Alexas/Octavia for HumanBeingCurious’s Antony and Cleopatra. You can also catch Mariel in several sketches of Potty Talk Series 2

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