INTAR Theatre

Alina Troyano, (aka Carmelita Tropicana) is a Cuban-born writer and performance artist who began her writing and performing career in the eighties through the generous support of two theatre organizations: Women¹s One World (WOW) and INTAR. She is the recipient of an Obie award for Sustained Excellence of Performance, and named by el Diario as ³una de las mujeres mas destacadas a notable woman,² a thespian who has portrayed many roles, females, males, animals and insects.

Her book I, Carmelita Tropicana: Performing Between Cultures offers a comprehensive collection of work that includes plays and scripts from Memories of the Revolution, (written with Uzi Parnes, published in Puro Teatro: A Latina Anthology), Chicas 2000 and Milk of Amnesia (a solo first reprinted in The Drama Review and in O Solo Homo: The New Queer Performance). Milk her most anthologized piece has been presented extensively since 1994 and will be presented at Yale University November 2007.

As a veteran performer she has appeared in numerous productions including her solo: With What Ass Does the Cockroach Sit? at INTAR Theater; and the Mark Taper Forum¹s Kirk Douglas Theater; Single Wet Female, a play co-written with Marga Gomez, Queer Arts Festival, Performance Space 122, and toured with Spaulding Grey¹s: Left Over Stories to Tell. She received her Equity card through INTAR when she appeared in Luis Santeiro¹s Lady from Havana.

Her first film Carmelita Tropicana: Your Kunst is Your Waffen, co-written with film director Ela Troyano aired on PBS and won best short at the Berlin Film Festival, and the audience award at the 18th International Gay & Lesbian Film Festival. The film --and its star-- toured Germany as a double feature with the Cuban film, ³Strawberry and Chocolate.²

Highlights of her performance art pieces include: Cry a la Jack at the Grimm Rosenfeld Gallery in New York; Survival of the Fittest at El Museo del Barrio¹s exhibit, No Lo Llames Performance; Latina Think Tank at the Walker Arts Center in Minneapolis; Virgin Cabaret Performance for the Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics at the Kimmel Center in New York City; Bon Bon New York (in Spanish) at the Hispanic Literature Conference in Madrid; Chicken Sushi video at the Reina Sofia, Madrid; Yesterday and Today at The Studio Museum of Harlem as part of The Decade Show, an arts retrospective.

Ms. Troyano has received a number of awards and fellowships including: the Anonymous Was a Woman Award, the Cuban Arts Foundation fellowship, the Mark Taper Forum¹s Latino Initiative fellowship, the CINTAS Foundation fellowship, and fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts for screenwriting/playwriting, and for Performance Art. Her work has been supported by the New York State Council on the Arts, the Jerome Foundation, Latino Public Broadcasting and Independent Television Services.

Ms. Troyano serves on the Board of Directors of Performance Space 122. She is a member of New York Theater Workshops Usual Suspects, the Screen Actors Guild (SAG), the Actors Equity Association, AEA.


	Alina Troyano Alina Troyano, (aka Carmelita Tropicana) is a Cuban-born writer and performance artist who began her writing and performing career in the eighties through the generous support of two theatre organizations: Women¹s One World (WOW) and INTAR. She is the recipient of an Obie award for Sustained Excellence of Performance, and named by el Diario as ³una de las mujeres mas destacadas a notable woman,² a thespian who has portrayed many roles, females, males, animals and insects. Her book I, Carmelita Tropicana: Performing Between Cultures offers a comprehensive collection of work that includes plays and scripts from Memories of the Revolution, (written with Uzi Parnes, published in Puro Teatro: A Latina Anthology), Chicas 2000 and Milk of Amnesia (a solo first reprinted in The Drama Review and in O Solo Homo: The New Queer Performance). Milk her most anthologized piece has been presented extensively since 1994 and will be presented at Yale University November 2007. As a veteran performer she has appeared in numerous productions including her solo: With What Ass Does the Cockroach Sit? at INTAR Theater; and the Mark Taper Forum¹s Kirk Douglas Theater; Single Wet Female, a play co-written with Marga Gomez, Queer Arts Festival, Performance Space 122, and toured with Spaulding Grey¹s: Left Over Stories to Tell. She received her Equity card through INTAR when she appeared in Luis Santeiro¹s Lady from Havana. Her first film Carmelita Tropicana: Your Kunst is Your Waffen, co-written with film director Ela Troyano aired on PBS and won best short at the Berlin Film Festival, and the audience award at the 18th International Gay & Lesbian Film Festival. The film --and its star-- toured Germany as a double feature with the Cuban film, ³Strawberry and Chocolate.² Highlights of her performance art pieces include: Cry a la Jack at the Grimm Rosenfeld Gallery in New York; Survival of the Fittest at El Museo del Barrio¹s exhibit, No Lo Llames Performance; Latina Think Tank at the Walker Arts Center in Minneapolis; Virgin Cabaret Performance for the Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics at the Kimmel Center in New York City; Bon Bon New York (in Spanish) at the Hispanic Literature Conference in Madrid; Chicken Sushi video at the Reina Sofia, Madrid; Yesterday and Today at The Studio Museum of Harlem as part of The Decade Show, an arts retrospective. Ms. Troyano has received a number of awards and fellowships including: the Anonymous Was a Woman Award, the Cuban Arts Foundation fellowship, the Mark Taper Forum¹s Latino Initiative fellowship, the CINTAS Foundation fellowship, and fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts for screenwriting/playwriting, and for Performance Art. Her work has been supported by the New York State Council on the Arts, the Jerome Foundation, Latino Public Broadcasting and Independent Television Services. Ms. Troyano serves on the Board of Directors of Performance Space 122. She is a member of New York Theater Workshops Usual Suspects, the Screen Actors Guild (SAG), the Actors Equity Association, AEA.