BOSTON GLOBE CRITIC'S PICK
Anna in The Tropics
“Two decades ago, Nilo Cruz won the Pulitzer Prize with this lyrical, life-imitating-art drama. It takes place in 1929 in a Cuban-American cigar factory in Tampa, where a charismatic lector (Alex Rodriguez) has been hired to read novels aloud to workers as they hand-roll cigars. Tensions rise as his reading of Tolstoy’s “Anna Karenina” inspires the workers to examine their own lives and relationships. The cast also includes Wilson Jermaine Heredia (a 1996 Tony winner for his performance as Angel in “Rent”), Gilbert Cruz, Blanca Camacho, Alexis Cruz, Marina Pires, and Gabriela Saker. Directed by Elena Araoz. “
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References to Salvador Dali Make Me Hot (2019)
Director
Texas State University
San Marcos, TX
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*Boston Globe Critics Pick
Juan Julian Rioz
Barrington Stage Company
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RENT (2014)
*Folio Weekly’s Best Theatre Production
Director and Choreographer
Players by The Sea, Jacksonville Beach, FL
Season 100 (24/25)
Omaha Community Playhouse
Co-Artistic Director
Omaha, NE
Little Women interview with Andrew Friedenthal
Alex has been nominated for two Omaha Entertainment & Arts Awards:
Outstanding Direction: Cabaret at the Omaha Community Playhouse
Outstanding Choreography: Cabaret at the Omaha Community Playhouse
OCP Announces Next Co-Artistic Directors
'“It took 100 years of putting on plays before an all-Latino cast could make a theatrical representation of one of their own stories. And Rodriguez said he doesn’t want this to be the last.”