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All Seasons / 2021-2022

Baipás

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The Arthur Laurents Theater

at The New Brunswick Performing Arts Center

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Director/Choreographer
Julio Monge

Julio Monge

Director/Choreographer
Julio Monge (Director) Directing credits include Hedwig and the Angry Inch (also producer and translation) at the Gay and Lesbian Theater Festival in San Juan, Puerto Rico (Best Production Award), and West Side Story (co-director) at Handa Opera on Sydney Harbour (Helpmann Award Best Direction and nomination for Best Choreography). He also directed the play Putting Out by Laura E. Bray at the Venus Theater Festival in NYC. 
 
Choreography credits include The Somewhere Project, celebrating Carnegie Hall’s 125th anniversary; Tony Kushner's translation of Mother Courage and her Children starring Meryl Streep at the Delacorte Theater, and the musical Radiant Baby, both directed by George C. Wolfe. Also, The Threepenny Opera at Williamstown Theater Festival starring Betty Buckley; Jose Rivera's premiere of References to Salvador Dali Make Me Hot starring Rosie Pérez, and the revival of Pablo Cabrera’s La Verdadera Historia de Pedro Navaja starring Gilbertito Santa Rosa and Yolandita Monge.
 
He served as artistic collaborator in the up-coming film version of West Side Story, written by Tony Kushner and directed by Stephen Spielberg, to be released in theaters on December, 2021.
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Playwright
Jacobo Morales

Jacobo Morales

Playwright

Jacobo Morales burst onto the entertainment industry at the age of fourteen and soon after, developed his writing skills in television and with La criada malcriada (1965). The first film he directed, ...And God Created Them (1979), is recognized as the marking point where Puerto Rico's film industry evolved. His third film, Lo que le pasó a Santiago (1989), reached an Academy Award nomination for Best Foreign Language Film in 1990. Morales is considered by many to be the most influential filmmaker in Puerto Rico.

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Cast
Maggie Bofill

Maggie Bofill

Cast

Maggie Bofill (Lorena). Actor, playwright. Founding member of LAByrinth Theater Company, member of Ensemble Studio Theater (EST) and WAW, WomanArtistWriters (Dorset Theater Festival). Recent: Nationally Televised PBS Short CubanAmericanGothic, Performed/Written by Maggie in collaboration with Maria Rodriguez. STAGE: Bella, The Sound Inside, Theater Works Hartford, Dir. Rob Ruggiero: Nora, A Doll's House Part Two, The Longwharf Theater, Dir. Will Davis: Armida, Mojada: A Medea in Los Angeles, St. Louis Rep. Dir: Rebecca Martinez: Blanca in The 24 Hour Plays Viral Monologues, Writer Michael John Garcés: TV AND FILM: High Town, The Path, Smash, Law&Order SVU. maggiebofill.com, IG: maggiebofillita

 

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Jorge Luna

Jorge Luna

Cast

Jorge Luna (Antonio) THEATRE: Constellations (George S. Lindsey Theatre), Hamlet (Jersey City Theater Center), Deathwatch (New Ohio), The Dream Dances (Irondale), SHINKA (Capital Fringe), Starry Messenger (Theatre For The New City), Cymbeline (Chashama), FLORIDITA, My Love (INTAR), Barceloneta, de noche (IATI), The Tempest (BC), The Promise (CBA). FILM: The Week Of (Netflix), planet b234 (Vail), All The Beautiful Things (Sundance), papa y yoyo, The Last Frankenstein, Catching Fireflies, All Is Not Lost, Angelo, Bx3M. TV: Lisey's Story, Elementary, The Blacklist, Law & Order: SVU, The Code, One Life to Live, Basile. TRAINING: Shakespeare; RADA. BA Theatre; UPR. MFA Acting; Brooklyn College. www.jorgeluna.net

 

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Lorena and Antonio, two strangers in transit, appear at the same crossroad. Alone together, drawn into each other’s arms by the temptation of the unknown and the allure of a Bolero, the lovers are propelled into a seductive pas de deux in which each has to make a life-or-death decision. Helmed by award-winning director/choreographer Julio Monge (Cultural Consultant, Spielberg’s West Side Story), this captivating premiere by Puerto Rico’s eminent, Academy Award-nominated playwright-filmmaker-poet Jacobo Morales will take you to an otherworldly plane that is both sublimely surreal and devastatingly eternal.

Run-time: 90 minutes; no intermission

 

Baipás…offers an invitation to wonder and romance."

— The Star-Ledger
 

Please note: This production includes strobe light effects and is suitable for ages 16+

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a complex, innovative, and memorable play.

— The Front Row Center

fascinating

— New Jersey Stage

charms with romance, drama, and...humor

— Broadway World

unconventional...right up to its final blackout

— Out in Jersey

something completely unique and different

— Says Me, Says Mom

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