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RAQUEL ALMAZAN |
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Nationality: Spanish Email: Click here to contact Website: Click here to visit |
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Literary Agent: Josselyne Herman and Associates & Judy Boals Agency Inc |
Raquel Almazan is from Madrid , Spain and is also of Costa Rican descent, she's lived most of her life in the States and is now an emerging interdisciplinary artist. She holds a B.F.A. in Theatre from University of Florida and is a graduate of the New World School of the Arts Conservatory where she developed work as a writer, director, actor and dramaturge. Almazan has been writing for over fifteen years, coming from a playwriting background, she has been developing her own performance work throughout the last ten years. At PS 742, she served as dramaturge and performed in Anomie . Almazan also directed a political comedy Zap! at the Green Door Gallery and a New World studio production of The Vagina Monologues . At the Louis O Gerrits Theatre, her play Junkyard Food starring (Terrell Mc Craney) was produced and also directed Heller's Portrait of My Brother for the New Playwrights Festival. For a Women's Forum moderated by Hilary Clinton, she wrote and performed a monologue in collaboration with dancer Stephanie Bastos. Almazan served as dramaturge and performed as Margaret in the multi- media production of Ur- Faust that toured to Hyterio Theatre in Athens, Greece. She has received grants from The Ford Foundation, Manhattan Coummunity Fund, Tropiculture Miami, Miami Dade Cultural Affairs, Florida Arts and The Artist Access Grant for her original writing/performance / residency development in playwriting. In addition to writing, Almazan is also an accomplished actor. Some of her noted roles include Lady MacBeth in MacBeth , Mrs. Papov in Chekov's The Bear. She has also performed in her self written, one person shows, Death of the Doll and her multi-media project as the Alpha Wolf where she plays a variety of female archetypes in She Wolves: Women in Sex, Death and Rebirth , recently part of the NYC Fringe Festival. As a performance artist she participates at social- political conferences and events to bring awareness to current female issues, including The National Women's Studies Conference, P.S. 122 and the Los Angeles Scope Arts conference. Almazan has participated in acting workshops including Susan Grace Cohen, Lee Michael Cohen, Shakespeare with Peter Craze, Laban, Growtowski, Movement and Directing. She has also trained in Butoh, Biomechanics, Suzuki, Improv and Mask Work. Raquel has also participated in writing development workshops with David Mamet, Horton Foote and Julie Harris. She has work shopped her playwriting material with Edward Albee and Jose Rivera. Albee noted that Almazan ". . .sure can write." She was selected as part of the Latino Writers Lab with the National Association of Latin Independent Producers for her screenplay Death of the Doll, the short film that screened at the first annual Boyle Heights Latina Independent Film Extravaganza in L.A. and Naked Angels Reading Series. Raquel is directing and acting in short films based on her performance pieces and has played a variety of characters in independent films, screened at Cannes, HBO NYLIFF and Urban World Festivals. As well as the role of Maricela on NBC'S Law & Order: SVU and Rita Campos on USA Network's White Collar.Almazan workshops original work with writers/ performers, including as a facilitator with Art Spring organization to incarcerated women in prison. As a teaching artist with LEAP she directs short plays with NYC Public school students off Broadway at New World Stages. With Manhattan Theatre Club and Educational Play Productions she performs throughout NYC Schools. She teaches acting for theatre/ camera at John Robert Powers. She is co-educational chair for Theatre East. Almazan is also the artistic director of La Lucha Arts Group, dedicated to producing diverse new work in theatre / film / dance / visual art / media. At (El Museo del Barrio) she played the lead in Escaping Juarez, Deviant Borders as the male Chamuco, (New World Theatre Mass.) and reading of The Mother f**ker with the Hat (directed by Stephen Adly Guirgis.) Her new plays as writer/ performer are Glossy Page Pimps (directed by Michael Garces) commissioned by Miami Light Project as a staged reading, and the Hopefulness/Esperanza in the 4 Caminos Festival at the Latino Cultural Center in NYC. Her plays The Hopefulness and La Paloma Prisoner participated in workshops with La Mama ETC, INTAR and Labyrinth Theatre Company. She is a proud member of The Dramatist Guild, SAG, AFTRA, and The Playwrights' Center, NALIP, Alternate Roots and the Hispanic Organization of Latin Actors.
Plays by Raquel Almazan
Alive Dead Baby | ||
| 1st Produced: | staged reading | 1999 | ||||
Company: | New world conservatory | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #73767 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
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Synopsis: | Mama and Sidney, (mother and daughter), have fled to a self built cabin in the woods in hopes of escaping horrors of their former life. After Sidney is attacked by a stranger, she forces Mama to reveal that real live past ghosts have come to haunt them in this dire time. Their violent love for one another is challenged when Sidney discovers who she really is and has to fight with her newfound knowledge to keep her and Mama alive. | |||||
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Come Home For Dinner | ||
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| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #73770 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama One Act | |||||
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Synopsis: | Laura in her mid forties prepares a surprise gourmet meal for her husband Michael in attempt to keep their frail marriage together only to discover that her worst suspicions to be true. As the couple's secrets are surfaced they face a future with newly found fears. | |||||
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Dead End Racket | ||
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| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #73775 | |||
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Genre: | Dramady Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 2 | ||
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Synopsis: | Mira- early forties in Queens, New York is a mafia associate who is looking to leave the rackets and as much money to her dying mother. Her final assignment gets complicated when her jailbird husband Larry shows up to even an unsettled score. | |||||
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Death of the Doll | ||
| 1st Produced: | New world conservatory | 2000 | ||||
Company: | New world conservatory | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #73766 | |||
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Genre: | One person show. Multi-media Piece | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 1 | ||
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Notes: | The original production has been greatly altered, new synopsis reflects current piece | |||||
Synopsis: | After being raped and mutilated, a young stripper Maria, awakens in purgatory, her dialogues with God help her to discover the militaristic history of violence within her Catholic origins. As Maria struggles with her desire to become the Virgin Mary figure she is forced to reconcile with her dead child that becomes all the more real in this imaginary world. We purge through the seven stages of the afterlife as Maria realizes who her killers are. | |||||
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Glossy Page PImps | ||
| 1st Produced: | Miami Light Project | 2005 | ||||
Company: | Miami Light Commission | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #73763 | |||
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Genre: | Hip Hop Theatre Piece | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
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Synopsis: | From music videos on BET and MTV, commercials on major networks and print advertisements in magazines, we are constantly assaulted by images and sounds that objectify women and other minorities. However, there is debate that if a woman is an active participant-willingly modeling or dancing-then it isn't misogynistic or denigrating. Who owns images? Who decides how genders and different racial groups will be defined? How do those definitions and descriptions ultimately affect generations of youth and their self-image? How does it effect overall race relations and progressive movements in the United States? D-Projects will set the stage to explore these questions in a work that reflects a sorely needed female voice in a male dominated Hip Hop community. Glossy Page Pimps will offer genuine aspects of women's lives and explore issues pertinent to them, within a spectrum ranging from the blatant chauvinism of commercial rap to the message of unity | |||||
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Holding Soil | ||
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| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #73774 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
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Synopsis: | Set against the Depression era, The Glenn couple cling to false hopes of holding onto their home. Their lost faith in God and the fear that their daughter Lilly will start a life with the work hand Paul, threatens to destroy the family. | |||||
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Hopefulness, The or La Esperanza | ||
| 1st Produced: | Julia De Burgos Theatre | 2005 | ||||
Company: | La Lucha Arts Group | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #73544 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 2 | ||
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Notes: | reading at Teatro Iati in NYC 2011 | |||||
Synopsis: | Two Sister prostitutes trapped in a box on a ship leaving the Dominican Republic make their way to France to achieve their dreams of prosperity. Ana and Jacqueline's dangerous journey reveals secrets of their past, where their clients, father , lovers and mother's role become intertwined. Their violent escape prompts a challenging fight for identity and survival in the immigrant struggle to conquer the Old World. | |||||
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Junk Yard Food | ||
| 1st Produced: | Louis O Gerrits Theatre | 1999 | ||||
Company: | New World Conservatory, New Playwrights Festival | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #73764 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | - | ||
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Synopsis: | Junkyard Food a new play, reveals the struggle of two brothers, the older Bill hungry to burn down the family Junkyard, and the younger "baby boy", Henry obsessed with exposing the violent secrets the Junkyard is hiding. Henry fights for their lives and their abusive love in an uncertain future with newly dead parents. As their parent's ghosts haunt them, Henry forces Bill to awaken to the horrors of his crimes and their hidden past. | |||||
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La Paloma Prisoner | ||
| 1st Produced: | Workshopped at La Mama retreat, Labyrinth and Table read at INTAR | 2009 | ||||
Company: | La Mama ETC, Layrinth Theatre Company and INTAR | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #115542 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | Can be produced with 1 male or 5, VOICEOVERS female | |||||
Notes: | This play was based on the writer's experience with arts training with women and young men in prison. | |||||
Synopsis: | A killer nicknamed La Paloma targets men who rape girls. During her incarceration, male rapists throughout Colombia continue to turn up dead, leading the pubic to believe La Paloma may have magical avenger abilities. With the spread of beauty pageant obsession in South American prisons, Paloma inspires a "parade of prisoners", calling on ancient rituals of adorning the warrior. These women's stories interweave Colombia's social, political and spiritual history. With this new found power, the women redefine beauty, their own humanity and their identity as criminals. La Paloma begins to revolutionize not only the women's lives, but prison society and the world beyond it's walls. | |||||
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Porning the Planet - The De-Sensitiz Nation of a Generation | ||
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Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #115543 | |||
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Genre: | Solo Dark Comedy- Multi-media | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 1 | ||
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Notes: | All multi-media in the show reflects images we download from her mind. Her memories are porn. Her daily rituals can be downloaded for mass consumption. This piece explores the impact that pornography has had on our consciousness, in our method of communicating, and loving/hating. Our creation of De-Sensitiz Nation. | |||||
Synopsis: | A star is born- porn star that is- Based on the life of Brittany Andrews and the real film Briana loves Jenna, this darkly comedic play PorningthePlanet follows SENSORA on a surreal journey. As the porn star chosen by NASA for the making of the film PORNING THE PLANET, SENSORA attempts to answer multiple personality disorder through the building of porn persona. On of her way to meet Hugh Hiefner our savior transforms from naive beauty pageant queen, to enlightened porn star, to snuff assassinated president. Leaving her no option but to escape the planet, launching into the galaxy. Porn star as alien embodies the last frontier for men to conquer. | |||||
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Pounding On Death's Door Without An Invitation | ||
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| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #73773 | |||
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Genre: | Dramady Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 | ||
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Synopsis: | Amera Clay, a Hollywood has been actress in her fifties, attempts to commit suicide in her off-off-off Broadway dressing room. Only to be stopped by the ghost of her three dead husbands who reel her into her glorious past, deception, true love and mysterious baby that destroyed her marriages. | |||||
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She Wolves: Women In Sex, Death & Rebirth | ||
| 1st Produced: | Gene Frankel Theatre, 24 Bond Street, New York, NY 10012 (NY Int Fringe Festival)>>> | 2007 | ||||
Company: | La Lucha Arts Group | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #72134 | |||
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Genre: | 1h 30m Multi-Media Solo Show Piece | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 1 | ||
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Notes: | This piece is currently seeking further international touring venues | |||||
Synopsis: | A virgin stripper, a mythical wolf-woman, an 18th-Century girl, a C.E.O., housewife and celebrity reporter make up the pack of SHE WOLVES. A solo performance that howls out a long-forgotten truth: behind every great woman, there's always a great wolf. | |||||
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Three - Bit Hoods | ||
| 1st Produced: | Third Street Black Box | 1997 | ||||
Company: | La Lucha Arts Group | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #73768 | |||
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Genre: | Dramady One Act | |||||
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Synopsis: | Mia in her late twenties is married to mafia goon Johnny who promises to get them out of their Chicago hide out apartment by finishing one last job. Suzanne their criminal neighbor pushes Mia to leave the apartment with her on a dangerous cinema outing; forcing Mia to reexamine the life she has chosen for herself and if she's not just better off tackling the world alone without Johnny. | |||||
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Tom And Martha | ||
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Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #73771 | |||
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Genre: | Dramady One Act | |||||
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Synopsis: | Right outside of Phoenix, Arizona, Tom and Martha, estranged middle aged rebel lovers reunite at Lula's 24 hour diner, after a twenty year hiatus. They recant their wild past, what lead them to their stable lives and the unyielding desperate longing for one another that still binds them together. | |||||
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UR-FAUST-A Lunatic Mythical Opera For The Millennium | ||
| 1st Produced: | Hyterio Theatre in Athens, Greece | 2000 | ||||
Company: | New world conservatory | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #73765 | |||
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Genre: | Multi-media Dance Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 9 | ||
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Synopsis: | An impressionistic approach to the legend of Faust, taking episodes from Goethe: a middle aged successful professor comes to a point in his life where nothing satisfies him. In despair he conjures the dark spirits that initiates a series of adventures in his attempt to conquer society. Using a variety of mixed media and movement this multi-layered theatre piece examines the breakdown of the Y2K syndrome as we look into "UR" meaning primitive- drive of Faust in all of us. | |||||
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Water Locked Between Us | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 1998 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #73769 | |||
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Genre: | Dramady One Act | |||||
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Synopsis: | Sarah a twenty eight yr old good girl gets intoxicated at dock tiki bar to find her navy boy finance has left her. As Lole the restaurant owner tries to console her to go home, an attractive twenty three yr old sailor Lane comes in looking to score and win a bet with the guys on the ship. Predator and prey ensue in a revealing battle of vulnerable desperation that have led both of them to this turning point that could change their lives forever. | |||||
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When Can I Die So I Can Start Living | ||
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| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #73772 | |||
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Genre: | Dramady One Act | |||||
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Synopsis: | Two brothers are surprised with the sudden death of their grandfather in their New York City apartment. As Jake thirty-two, tries to get the younger Bobby twenty nine, to pull away from his dreams in art and resign to pursue the basic American Dream. Bobby forces Jake to realize the facade that has made him a success and what has always been pulling him away from the family. | |||||
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