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Artist Bios

Artist Bios:

Victor I. Cazares

Victor is a Poz Queer Indigenous Mexican Artist (PQIMA for short) who has had stints at Yale, Brown, and other less prestigious centers of rehabilitation. Like any border child, they were born twice: once in El Paso, Texas and another in San Lorenzo, Chihuahua. At Yale (History of Art, B.A.), they were the recipient of the Josef Albers Fellowship, at Brown (Writing for Performance, M.F.A.) they worked closely with Erik Ehn and Patricia Ybarra on the Arts in the One World Conference and the Theatre and Civil Society Institute at BIARI. Currently, they are the Tow Playwright-in-Residence at NYTW and are teaching a class for undocumented and immigrant writers via PEN America, CUNY, and National Queer Theater. Plays include: american (tele)visions, The Dead Women of J-Town & Smiley, Pinching Pennies with Penny Marshall, Ramses contra los monstruos, We Were Eight Years in Powder, and When We Write With Ashes.

Lili Pujol

Lili is a Cuban-American actor and comedian born and raised in Miami, FL. At a towering (almost) 5'2", they were rejected by NYU Tisch School Of The Arts - her taller twin brother was accepted. After surviving 13 years of Catholic school, Lili, often described as an angry little lesbian, graduated from Florida State University School of Theatre in 2013. All theaters they previously performed in have since closed, so you can now find them on their regular walks around East Harlem and on Instagram. @lilipujoljr

Monique Simone

Afro-Cuban author Monique Simone grew up split between Peterson Avenue in Sauk Village, IL and Halsted Street on the South Side of Chicago. She studied News-Editorial Journalism and Philosophy at the University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana. During her sophomore and junior years, she wrote, copyedited, and self-published her first book, Black People Dance. Her creative flame has yet to dim. A year ago, Monique opened The Wicking Co., a candle company that she owns and operates in the Evergreen state of Washington where she now resides. She is now also working on becoming a paramedic. She spends her days writing, reading, creating, and will soon be saving lives.

MARIKISCRYCRYCRY (Malik Nashad Sharpe)

Malik Nashad Sharpe is an artist working with choreography. They create performances that are formally experimental and engaged with the construction of atmosphere, affect, and dramaturgy. Their performances often utilize social themes and topics as portals to unveil and unearth ulterior and undercurrent perspectives. Often making underneath their alias and aesthetics project MARIKISCRYCRYCRY, they have been especially concerned with the affective and textural qualities of dance and how it can transform, disarm, and critically reflect upon mourning and melancholia. They have made choreography for the English National Opera (UK)/Gate Theatre (UK), Young Vic (UK), and at National Theatre (UK) as a part of Summer Space to Create, and have been featured in publications including British Vogue, American Vogue, Vogue Polska, Dazed, Dazed Beauty, Crack Magazine, Howlround Theatre Commons, i-D, Nowness, Love Magazine, and others. They were recently named by Attitude Magazine as a Rising Star in Dance. They are Work Place Associate Artist at The Place, Studio Resident at Somerset House Studios, Artist Lead at Dance4, and Co-Curator of London International Festival for Theatre. They have formerly been an Associate Artist with Hackney Showroom Productions, and formerly an Artist-in-Residence at Tate Modern and Tate Britain. They live and make work from London, U.K.

Joe Louis

Joe Louis is a Puerto Rican singer-songwriter who works with what he calls “bohemia experimental.” His music is in dialogue with boleros, folk, alternative rock, and música jíbara alongside vocal improvisation and performance. His lyrics inhabit an erotic-surreal universe that can sometimes be nostalgic and melancholic. Joe Louis has performed in the Loisaida Festival in 2017, 2019 and 2020, virtually. In January 2019, he presented for the first time his performance Bohemia Surreal in Casa de Cultura Ruth en Río Piedras, Puerto Rico. He studied Journalism and Playwriting at the University of Puerto Rico, RioPiedras Campus. Lo Sagrado is his upcoming debut album.

Esaú Mora

Esaú Mora is a first-generation Chicano-Americano expat currently based in New Zealand. He is an actor, writer, & performance artist. NYC Credits: Harbored for En Garde Arts; [PORTO], Big Green Theatre at The Bushwick Starr; Dreamers Often Lie at The Tank. Regional Credits: Read To Me at Portland Stage; Wondrous Strange, Wellesley Girl at the Humana Festival; That Thing That Time, The Lie Mission at Actors Theatre of Louisville. He has performed his original works and stand-up for the Nuyorican Poets Cafe, New Masculinities Festival at The LGBTQ Center, House of Yes, Club Cumming, Cobra Club, Actors Theatre of Louisville, & NZ International Comedy Festival. Training: BFA Oregon Center for the Arts at SOU & Acting Apprentice at Actors Theatre of Louisville.

Mateo Hurtado

Mateo Hurtado (@_laserpipe) is an NYC-based comedian, variety show host, writer, co-founder of the Brown Theatre Collective, and Performance Studies chameleon from Chicago. As a pupil of Anna Deavere Smith, Sandra Ruiz, and Alexandra T. Vazquez, Mateo’s training spans, spurs solo performance and Latinx Performance Studies. This informs his deliberate yet dizzying vision/s as a curator, thinker, and comedic cacophony-conduit. Mateo has been seen (perf)orming throughout the big apple at rambunctious spaces including: Ars Nova,The Kitchen, HERE Arts Center, Château de 420 Marcy, Mayday Space, Triple Crown, Dixon Place, The PIT, ART/NY, Edge Theater @ The Point, and The Footlight, among others. His first solo show UNCUT FROM AIR! was directed by Dusty Childers and debuted at Dixon Place’s HOT! Fest 2018. Most recently, Hurtado has been hosting his monthly virtual variety show MONTH and debuted a workshop production of his second solo show DISCO, online, helmed by Suni Reyes. You can hear his voice on the new audio play THE MS PHOENIX RISING, written by Trish Harnetiaux, on Playwrights Horizons’ Soundstage, wherever you procure podcasts. NYU Performance Studies: MA. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: BFA Theatre Studies, BA Latina/o Studies.

With special appearances by:

Alton Alburo

Alton Alburo has acted with New York Theatre Workshop, Primary Studios, Ensemble Studio Theatre, Ma-Yi, Transport Group, The Flea, Target Margin Lab, Rattlestick/Pride Plays, New Dramatists, NYSAF, The Lark, Bushwick Starr, La MaMa, New Ohio, Colt Coeur, New Light Theater Project, Two Headed Rep, Concrete Temple, PEN World Voices, Children’s Theatre Company (MN), ArtsEmerson (MA), Connecticut Free Shakespeare (CT), Red Cloud Opera House (NE), among others. He can also be seen on Netflix in Last Ferry and “Friends From College.” Alton is on the board of Undiscovered Countries, a bimonthly new and developing works festival.

Jesús I. Valles

Jesús I. Valles (they/them) is a queer Mexican immigrant, writer-performer from Cd. Juarez/El Paso. Jesús’ work has been supported by Lambda Literary, Community of Writers, Idyllwild Arts, Undocupoets, Tin House, and the Poetry Incubator. Their work has been featured in The New Republic,Quarterly West, NPR’s Code Switch, The Slowdown, and elsewhere. They are the author and performer of (Un)Documents, for which they earned two B. Iden Payne Awards. Jesús is currently OUTSider festival’s OUTsider-in-residence and a 1st-year student in Brown’s playwriting MFA program.