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Victoria Pérez

Director

VICTORIA PÉREZ is the Co-Founder and Artistic Director of Raíces Theatre Company. She is a graduate of AMDA in NYC. Among her favorite theatre credits are, The Year of Magical Thinking, In the Heights, Water by the Spoonful, The Clean House, La Gringa, Last Days of Judas Iscariot, and Twilight. Favorite director credits, Real Women Have Curves, Barceló on the Rocks, Motherfu**ker with a Hat, Nine, and Kiss of a Spiderwoman. Victoria has been nominated several times for Buffalo’s Artie Awards, and won for Outstanding Actress in a Musical. She also received the Arts Award from Hispanics United of Buffalo, the Community Arts award from Senator Antoine Thompson and Rising Star from the Hispanic Coalition of NYS. She is a graduate of the Teaching Artist Project in NYC, is the Lead Teaching Artist for Shea’s PAC and has taught at various arts organizations. “Pandemic Theatre” is a new venture and one that has taught her that a good story can be told ANYWHERE!  

Stephen Adly Guirgis

Playwright

STEPHEN ADLY GUIRGIS graduated from University at Albany - SUNY. He is a former Co-Artistic Director of LAByrinth Theatre Company in New York Cityand educator in New York City area prisons, schools, shelters, and hospitals for conflict resolution and HIV/AIDS prevention. Guirgis's plays have been performed throughoug the US and across 5 continents. He won the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for his play Between Riverside and Crazy. Awards include: the Lucille Lortel Award, the PEN/Laura Pels Award, the Yale Wyndham-Campbell Prize, The Harold & Mimi Steinberg Award, Whiting Award, TCG fellowship, Fringe First Award, NY Drama Critics Circle, and the L.A. Drama Critics Prize. He is also an actor and has appeared in theater, film, and television.

Source: NYU Contemporary Playwrights of Color

Juliana Peteani

Assistant Director

JULIANANA 'JULIE' PETEANI has an Associate’s Degree in Performing Arts from Westchester Community College and is currently pursuing a BA in Theatre at Lehman College. This is Julie’s first production at Lehman College and she is so grateful to have learned so many new skills throughout this process. She would like to thank individuals individually but hates to be wordy.