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Celebrate the Holidays with Season Tickets to Milagro!
It’s that time of year again! With the holidays right around the corner, Milagro is ringing in the season with some festive, special promotional offers. From now until January 1st, Milagro is offering a special price on all Holiday Flex Passes. Purchase a seasonal subscription, and get 3, 4 or 5 tickets for $20 each! That’s right – if you purchase a Holiday Flex Pass before New Years Eve, save 35% on every ticket. With a Milagro Flex Pass, you can use your pass for different shows or all for one show, the choice is up to you!...
read moreINGENIO 2018 Who’s Who
A significant portion of INGENIO are the artists who bring the pages to life during rehearsals and the readings. Meet the directors and actors who will working with the playwrights and guest dramaturg in this process. Friday September 21, 2018. 7:00 PM Tara by Brian Otaño DIRECTOR Maggie Carrido Adams Maggie Carrido Adams is an interdisciplinary performing artist based in the Pacific Northwest; recent productions include Two Sisters and a Piano (Theater Schmeater); The Grey Golem, Twelfth Night (Ghost Light Theatricals); Ibsen in Chicago,...
read moreAlebrijes Who’s Who
Milagro’s 23rd Día de Muertos production takes inspiration from an imaginary creature unique to Mexican art. ¡Alebrijes! A Día de Muertos Tale is a dream that comes to life through these talented artists. CAST Robi Arce, Pedro Robi is a physical theatre actor, director, clown, mime and fool that holds an MFA in Ensemble-Based Physical Theatre from Dell’Arte International and a BA in Drama from the University of Puerto Rico. Robi has performed, toured, and lead workshops in Mexico, Venezuela, Puerto Rico, and several cities...
read moreMilagro/NWTW Collaboration Scholarship Playwrights
It is with great pleasure that we announce the two playwrights selected for the 2018 Milagro/Northwest Theatre Workshop (NWTW) Collaboration Scholarship. As part of INGENIO Milagro, the program to develop Latino playwrights and plays in order to add more Latino voices to the American theatre cannon, two local Portland playwrights were selected to take part in NWTW’s one-year playwriting program. The program consists of two workshops: Create: Writing the Script, a 9 month intensive and Create: Summer Intensive. The goal is to complete a draft...
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As part of Milagro’s commitment to support the development of Latino playwrights, nationally and a local level, two Portland-area emerging Latina/o playwrights will be selected to take part in Northwest Theatre Workshop’s (NWTW) year-long program on script development, designed to take an idea into a rehearsal-ready script. Selected playwrights will take NWTW workshops “Create 101” and “New Script Workshop.” The Create Workshops are important steps in the structured process to enable writers to create scripts in which they “say what they mean...
read moreSeason 35 Spotlight: Charly Evon Simpson
A conversation with the playwright of Jump How did the co-production at Milagro/Confrontation Theatre come about? I met José at the National Showcase of New Plays in Orlando last December. Jump had a reading there and he had heard it. We chatted about the play a bit before the end of the showcase weekend. A few weeks later, I learned that Milagro was interested in doing the show with Confrontation Theatre. I’m not sure of the details of that connection but I think it is great for two theater companies focusing on stories by and for people of...
read moreWriting a Latino Fairy Tale
A conversation with Marisela Treviño Orta, playwright Wolf at the Door A National New Play Network Rolling World Premiere How did your relationship with Milagro begin? Last year my play Shoe was part of Milagro’s INGENIO Festival. While I had met Milagro artists before, that reading was the first time I had the pleasure to come to Milagro’s theatre and have my work performed on its stage. Other than the INGENGIO Festival, I have not been involved with Milagro before now. This play is part of a cycle of fairy tales inspired by Latino...
read moreSeason 35 Spotlight: Roy Arauz
A conversation with the director of the Spanish-language production La Segua by Alberto Cañas Escalante As Milagro’s Producing Creative Director, you are certainly no stranger here. What drew you to working at a Latino centered theatre? This is a loaded question. I had been working in the Seattle area for many years, though my focus had been mostly in LGBTQ, women’s rights, and social justice theatre, and as many I also held a day-time job doing graphic design and marketing. Eventually, two things happened: I realized that my voice as a...
read moreThe Milagro Family Continues to Grow
Talking with actor Feliciano Tencos-Garcia You are the newest member to the Milagro family. How did your involvement with us begin? Okay, so I give a lot of details, so forgive me if I ramble. I crashed and burned on my first outing with Milagro. Roy asked me to come in for a private table-reading of a play they were looking put on, and it was entirely in Spanish. I grew up around Spanish, speaking it, singing it, bragging about my cooking in Spanish, but I’m slow to read it because I never had a formal Spanish education. I asked Roy...
read moreSeason 35 Spotlight: Milta Ortiz
A conversation with the playwright for Judge Torres National Touring production How did your relationship with Milagro begin? I first met José at a TCG audience revolution convening. I already new Maya as an actor in Chicago, where I lived during graduate school at Northwestern University. So I had that reference point and I found that we have a lot of things in common. I also work in theater with my spouse. We had some good laughs about that. Both you and Judge Torres are originally from El Salvador. What is your favorite part of writing not...
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