sol 6: Guadalís Del Carmen
Guadalís Del Carmen
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BEES AND HONEY
THE PLAY
Inspired by the Juan Luis Guerra song "Como Abeja Al Panal," Bees and Honey is an intimate portrait of a Dominican couple's love and dreams in New York City. Manuel and Johaira meet at a Washington Heights club and it was love at first sight. Now married, the ambitious young couple set out to achive their dreams together. Manuel's entrepreneurial spirit drives him to expand his mechanic shop, while Johaira lands a career-defining sexual assault case that could help her make partner at her law firm. As the high-profile trial takes its toll on Johaira, she also begins to question whether her husband will ever outgrow his old school mentality. Adding in Manuel's ailing mother and an unforeseen tragedy, the pair must reckon with how their love is put to the test.
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MCC THEATER
THE PARTNER
melissa crespo
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Melissa Crespo is CT born with Dominican, Puerto Rican and Chilean roots. She is a New York City based director of theater, opera and film. She most often directs world premieres and is also a producer, dramaturg and playwright.
Melissa has developed work at LAByrinth Theater Company, New Dramatists, The Lark and more. She is most known for ¡Figaro! (90210) which had it's world premiere at LA Opera and was produced twice Off-Broadway at The Duke on 42nd Street. Melissa also directed the most recent incarnation of Tar Baby written and performed by Desiree Burch with Dan Kitrosser. Hailed as one of Huffington Post's 'Favorite Female Comedians," Tar Baby was awarded the prestigious Scotsman Fringe First at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and has since had productions in NYC, London, New Zealand and Finland. Melissa co-write the play Egress with Sarah Saltwick which recently had a workshop production at Cleveland Playhouse. It will receive a world premiere production May 2020 at Amphibian Stage in Fort Worth, TX. She is currently adapting Angie Cruz's novel Soledad for the stage. Melissa has served as a 2016-2018 Time Warner Fellow at WP Theater, Allen Lee Hughes Directing Fellow at Arena Stage, Van Lier Directing Fellow at Second Stage Theatre and is an alum of the Drama League Director's Project. She is a current Usual Suspect at New York Theatre Workshop and received her MFA in Directing from The New School for Drama. |