Mando Alvarado (Translator, YAMAHA 300) is a writer and an actor from Pharr, TX. He just completed production on the film Cruzando, which he co-wrote and co-directed and is currently in Post-production. He is a member of INTAR’s Hispanic Playwright in Residence Laboratory. As part of HPRL, he’s developed two plays, Post No Bills and Gehenna, TX. Post No Bills received a staged reading as a part of the New Works Lab. His plays have received developmental support from The Kennedy Center, Rattlestick Theater, Sonnet Rep, District of Columbia Arts Center, Theater Alliance, Woolly Mammoth Theater, The Round House Theater, and Nuyorican Poet’s Café. His ten-minute play, The Lion and the Mouse: a Radio Show is being performed by LEAP throughout schools in Manhattan, the Bronx, and Brooklyn as part of its Aesop Fables for Youth series. His play Throat was developed at The Field ArtWard Bound Residency Program. Throat received a staged workshop production produced by Allison Prouty (V-Day, Vagina Monologues, The Good Body) in February 2006. It went on a three-city tour in the spring of 2007 to DC, McAllen, TX, and Minneapolis, MN. In May of 2007, he was a playwright-in-residence at the PANGEA PROJECTS at Theatre Alliance in Washington DC developing his new play Basilica and is currently under development at the Rattlestick Theater. As an actor, he has been seen in "The Sopranos," "The Black Donnelley’s," "Law and Order: Criminal Intent," "Law and Order: SVU," and the feature film The Choking Man. He is a graduate of North Carolina School of the Arts. 

Mariana Carreño King (Translator, DECOMPOSITION) As a translator, Mariana has worked for the Criterion Collection, MTV, Conill Advertising, Avon, and New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA), among others. She has also translated into English the short story collection Loves that Kill by Mexican writer Rosa Beltrán (with a grant from NYSCA) and co-translated the play Underground Fantasy for a Woman and a Violin, by Iona Weissberg.

Mariana’s plays include Darkroom and The Wake (NewWorksLab, 1996 and 2007), Fool’s Journey (finalist, 2001 O’Neill Playwrights Conference), Two Minutes in the Lobby, Waiting for the Post Office to Give Birth to Time and Dessert Stories, (Labyrinth Summer Intensive Retreats and at the Puerto Rican Traveling Theatre, among others venues). Her short plays, Pitahayas (finalist, 2003 Actors Theatre of Louisville’s Heideman Award), Night of the Cat-Sitter, Clowns and Static have been presented at The Public, and The Milagro Theatre.

As a free-lance writer, Mariana published the monthly column En español, por favor, in the magazine Marketing y Medios from 2004 to 2006, which was a finalist for the 2006 American Business Media’s Neal Award for best department in a trade publication. She has also written for Marie Claire en español and offoffoff.com, and co-wrote an article about Morocco scheduled for publication in the magazine National Geographic Traveler Mexico this December.

Mariana directed a bilingual production of Eduardo Machado’s The Cook for Stages Repertory Theatre in Houston, TX, in 2006. Other directing credits include workshop productions of Space Oddity at Aaron Davis Hall, Dinner with Jobita and la Chacha at Intar and Pilgrim at the PRTT, all written by Henry Guzmán, as well as gigs with The A Train Plays at The Neighborhood Theatre, The 24 hour plays at Intar and The Atlantic, The 52 nd Street Project, and many workshops and stage readings .

Migdalia Cruz's (Translator, THE MAIDS OF HONOUR) work has been produced across the U.S. and abroad at various venues including: Mabou Mines, Classic Stage Company, Playwrights Horizons, INTAR, Brooklyn Academy of Music, En-Garde Arts, HOME, Shaliko Company, New York Shakespeare Festival’s Festival Latino, Theatre For The New City, and the W.O.W. Cafe (New York); Ateneo Puertorriqueño (PR); National Theater of Greece(Athens); Foro Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz (Mexico City); Old Red Lion (London, England); Vancouver Players (Vancouver, B.C.); Latino Chicago Theater Company (Chicago); Houston Grand Opera (Houston); American Repertory Theatre (Cambridge); Cleveland Public Theatre (Cleveland); Frank Theatre (Minneapolis); Théâtre d’aujourd hui (Montreal); American Music Theatre Festival (Philadelphia); Intersection for the Arts/LATA (San Francisco); Andy’s Playhouse (NH.); and Cornerstone Theater Company (Los Angeles), among others. She has been nurtured by Maria Irene Fornes’ Playwrights’ Laboratory at INTAR; Royal Court Theatre/New Dramatists Exchange ’94 (London); Steppenwolf Theatre’s New PlaysLab (Chicago); Bay Area Playwrights’ Festival ’94, Festival Latino’93 at Teatro Mision (San Francisco); the Sundance Institute; Midwest PlayLabs; Mark Taper Forum’s New Play Festival; Omaha Magic Theatre; “Songs from Coconut Hill” Theater Festival ’05; South Coast Rep’s HPP ’04. She has written over thirty plays including: Salt, Fur, Miriam’s Flowers, Lucy Loves Me,Dreams of Home, Telling Tales, ¡CHE-CHE-CHE!, Latins In La-La Land,Cigarettes and Moby-Dick, Lolita de Lares, and Running For Blood: No. 3 (a radio play). She wrote book and lyrics for the musicals Rushing Waters, Welcome Back To Salamancaand When Galaxy Six and TheBronx Collide; the libretto for an opera, Street Sense; and lyrics and monologues for Frida: The Story of Frida Kahlo. Her plays and monologues have been published by Theatre Communications Group, U. of Arizona Press, Routledge Press, Penguin Books, Arte Publico Press, Applause Books, Smith & Kraus Publishers, and Third Woman Press. She has taught playwriting at U.of Iowa/Playwrights’ Workshop, NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, Princeton University, and at Amherst College, and guest lectured at Yale University, Wesleyan University, Mount Holyoke College, and Columbia University. She received commissions from Mabou Mines, NYSF’s Public Theater, Crossroads Theatre, Steppenwolf Theatre, Latino Chicago Theater Company, Arena Stage, Playwrights Horizons, WNYC-radio, Ballet Hispanico, DUO and INTAR. Migdalia is a 1996 recipient of the Kennedy Center’s Fund for New American Plays award for Another Part Of The House. Her play, The Have-little was the runner-up for the 1991 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, and SALT was a 1997 runner-up. She won a 2005 Massachusetts Cultural Council grant, and a 1994 Connecticut Commission on The Arts grant for playwriting. At Classic Stage Company, she was a 1994 PEW/TCG National Artist in Residence. Migdalia was a 1997-98 Sackler Fellow at Connecticut Rep/UConn, a 1991 & 1995 NEA Playwriting Fellow, a 1988 McKnight Fellow, received her MFA degree from Columbia University, and is an alumna of New Dramatists.

She was born and raised in the Bronx.

2008-09 Projects: El Grito del Bronx at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, 4/08, at the Miracle Theatre (OR) 4/09, and at the Goodman in a co-production with Teatro Vista & ColaborAction (IL), 7/09; FUR presented at UNM@Alburquerque, 3/08; and teaching a master class at Monarch Theater Company (NY), 10/08.

She is also adapting Petronius’ Anti-Nero Satryricon to GW Bush’s America.

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Cutberto López Reyes (YAMAHA 300) was born on March 20, 1964 in Benjamin Hill, Sonora, Mexico. In 1981 he began working in theatre where he developed as an actor, mime, director, technician, teacher, producer, and playwright.

His playwriting professors include Marcela del Río, Santiago García, and Jos é Sanchís Sinisterra.

Several of his texts have been published by Tramoya Magazine, Sonora’s State Government, the University of Sonora, Tierra Adentro Publishers, Espacio Escénico Magazine, Paso de Gato Magazine, CONACULTA and “El milagro” Editions, the Theatre and Media Society Latin America of Germany, and “Le Miroir qui fume” Editions in Paris, France.

His plays Durmientes and Desierto have been translated to French and produced in Paris.

His play Mujer Lagartija was translated and published in Germany.

His other works include: Píntame un sueño, Calle del oro 1555, de noche, Rosa, Ah í vine la mano peluda, Casa pa’ los pastores, Terapia Intensiva, Helada Madrina, Una noche de perros y gatos, Yamaha 300, Una mujer en el baño, Muerte cerebral, Durmientes, Mujer lagartija, La esperanza, Desierto, Matar al sol, Inversión/Perversión, Motel, Ligas Mayores, El pequeño más pequeño, Los viajes de Ingrid, Un tour por el silencio, El hombre que aprendió a vivir doble, Sin razón aparente, and El Naufrago del Cielo.

Directed the plays: El ultimo Dragón, De acá, de este lado, Los miércoles para Elena, Todo de a dos, El astrólogo fingido, Una noche de perros y gatos, Dos historias fantásticas, Un mundo de narices, La Caperucita Roja, Maravillas Sonorenses, Vida, estamos en paz, and A punto de turrón amongst others.

His plays have premiered in Hermosillo, Mexicali, Durango, Chihuahua, Jalapa, Veracruz, León, San Luis Potosí, Culiacán, Monterrey, Tampico, Aguascalientes, Oaxaca, Distrito Federal, and Caen and Paris, France.

He served on the jury of various national and state competitions for playwriting and directing, which include the prestigious “Oscar Liera” and “Manuel Herrera”.

For six years he was part of the National System of Creative Artists of the National Fund for Culture and Arts.