The trouble is that although the artist can do it (art), the price that he has to pay himself and that you, the audience, must also pay, is a willingness to give up everything, to realize that although you spent 27 years acquiring this house, this furniture, this position, although you spent 40 years raising this child, these children, nothing, none of it belongs to you. You can only have it by letting it go. You can only take it if you are prepared to give, and giving is not an investment. It is not a day at the bargain counter. It is a total risk of everything, of you and who you think you are, who you think you’d like to be, where you think you’d like to go-everything, and this forever, forever.
-James Baldwin
Who I Am
I am a Puerto-Rican director establish in New York City. I did my undergrad in the University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras campus on General Drama. Towards the last 3 years of my undergrad I started assisting directing and stage managing, while also directing in my community parish for 4 years in a row the Death and Passion of Christ. I then traveled to the great apple to pursue my MFA in Directing at The New School of Drama, completing the degree in May 2021.
I consider myself a spirit leaving a human experience. I create artwork as an attempt to navigate the ontological research of this experience with the intention to understand and explore the human condition from as many perspectives possible, specially from the unseen points of views. Awareness. Self-awareness. These are the pillars of the creative working process that I’m aiming to master in my path through my career. Cultivating a sense of being in touch with our surroundings, while at the same time of the context of others when it comes to the dramaturgy of those life experiences. The creative ontological research is grounded in community building and the investigation of the intersectionality of experiences. The space from where I want to create is one where we all can see each other as who we are, wholehearted, because it is in this space where truth lies. I create secure, creative and courageous spaces that evoke vulnerability hoping that when the world witnesses the work they will be compelled-or seduced-to open up to their vulnerability. Yes and, my context is QUEER, COLORFUL (Black, indigenous and people of color), FEMALE and SELF-AWARE allies.
The endgame of my artistic work-and vision-is a recurrent invitation to heal from untold stories that had been undermined by forces coming from within or the exterior. I hope to create spaces that are intended to invite each collaborator and audience member to connect with themselves, with their ethereal and intrinsic self. Evoking a sense of freedom from anything that tethers us away from our essence through a theatrical psychospiritual experience. Inspiring the audience to courageously believe in themselves, love themselves and pursue their sacred path (whatever that may mean for each individual). It is the dialectic of the self in reciprocity with the dialectic with our ever changing world, with a sprinkle of fun, joy and LOVE, above all.
With love. In love. To love. By love. Loved. And by the grace of love.