HONDURAS is a solo piece based on experiences from several Honduran immigrant
mothers in the New York/New Jersey area, all of whom connected with SaraÂ
Immigrant Families Together. Each asylum-seeker in this story crossed the border in
the summer of 2018. All names are changed, characters are dramatized and highly
interpreted versions of people and scenarios, but nothing has been exaggerated. For
more on IFT: www.immigrantfamiliestogether.com
Valeria A. Avina (Performer) Actor, Playwright, Producer, and Voice Teacher at Fordham University. Based in NYC, born and raised in Durango, Mexico. Valeria is a member of the Saudade Theatre Company, Intar UNIT52, The Flea (The Bats). She has also performed at All For One Theater, Dixon Place, Drama League, Intar, Danisarte, Teatro SEA, Bushwick Starr, The Tank, The Lark, Noor Theater, and Planet Connections Festivity. In 2017, she was nominated at The Planet Connections Awards for Oustanding Lead Actress in a Play for her role in Victory Girls by Kristina Poe. Some of her TV/Film credits are commercials for Cadillac, Revlon, Stratus, Fidelis Care, In driver, MJN Insurance, Mastercard, and an episode for Ralph Friedman TV Series, The Perfect Murder, and POSE (FX). Recently she was part of the wonderful cast in the production of Cross-Roads by Raquel Almazan, (LaMicroTheater), Honduras by Sara Farrington (AFO, Judson Church, So-fi Festival, Michael Chekhov Theater Festival, and the Tank), POSE season 2 FX (Chanel). In 2009 Valeria wrote her solo performance called " The wound of a Nation" based on the true stories of the drug war in Mexico, the solo was inspired by her real-life and people around her during the war. Years later when she moved to NYC she wrote another solo called "Magic Tape" inspired by her own life.
Evan Zes (Director) Evan’s New York credits include Incident at Vichy at The Signature Theatre; Days to Come at The Mint; Rent Control (writer and performer) at Soho Playhouse; Freedom of the City, Man and Superman, White Woman Street, Around the World in 80 Days at Irish Repertory Theatre; American Dreams with The Acting Company, and The Eyes of Others at The New Ohio. International: Rent Control at Teatro Jaco in Costa Rica and Elliniko Theatro in Athens, Greece; Julie Taymor’s The King Stagg at the Barbican, London. Select regional credits include The McCarter, Hartford Stage, The Alley, The Goodman, The Old Globe, NY Stage and Film, Cleveland Playhouse, Westport Country Playhouse, La Jolla Playhouse, Arena Stage, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, The Shakespeare Theatre DC, Pittsburgh Public Theater, St. Louis Repertory Theater, Baltimore Centerstage, and Berkeley Rep. Evan's film and Tv credits include The Path, The Street and Last Night at Angelo’s and All My Children. He has an MFA from A.R.T/ Moscow Art Theatre at Harvard University.Â
Sara Farrington (Playwright) Sara is an NYC/NJ based playwright and co-founder of Foxy Films, her theater company with husband Reid Farrington. MFA from Brooklyn College w/ Mac Wellman, recent HARP Artist at HERE for her play CasablancaBox, which was nominated for two 2017 Drama Desk Awards: Unique Theatrical Experience & Outstanding Projection Design. Upcoming: BrandoCapote (The Tank NYC, Fall 2019), Cosmicomics (The Flea, Fall 2019). Recent: Honduras (The Tank, Michael Chekhov Theater Fest, AFO SoloCollective, Int'l Human Rights Arts Fest), Leisure, Labor, Lust (The Tank, The Mount, Art House), The Return (commissioned/performed at The Metropolitan Museum of Art), Near Vicksburg (Incubator Arts), Requiem For Black Marie (Incubator, Stella Adler Studio), Mickey & Sage (Incubator, Great Plains Theater Conf., NTI @ O'Neill, ShelterBelt Theater, Omaha.) Her work has received support from The Venturous Fund, MediaTHE, NYSCA, Axe-Houghton, Arch & Bruce Brown Foundation. MacDowell Colony fellow, Connecticut College & NTI @ Eugene O'Neill Center grad, Wooster Group intern. Her work is published by Broadway Play Publishing. Sara is the Artistic Assoc. at Art House, Jersey City, freelances for The Brooklyn Rail, is an original member of Immigrant Families Together and a champion of #MeToo.
Please note: You will receive an email with your link to the show before showtime. Thank you!Â
There are no refunds.
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