SOLFEST 2024 | The Sol Project

Amplifying the Voices of Latiné Playwrights in the American Theater.

SolFest is The Sol Project's annual Latiné Theater Festival, produced in partnership with Pregones/Puerto Rican Traveling Theater (Pregones/PRTT). SolFest is entering its seventh consecutive year under Adriana Gaviria's leadership, and aims to provide more opportunities to amplify Latiné artists, and to further cultivate our relationships and collaborations with Latiné artists both in New York and around the world.

SolFest is made possible with support from the Howard Gilman Foundation.

FULL LINE-UP

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 6

SolFest Picnic in the Park

SolFest kicks off the festival with the third annual SolFest Picnic in the Park. Join us for this communal event in Central Park to celebrate seven years of artistic excellence and programming.

MONDAY, OCTOBER 7

Dolorosa

By Anne García-Romero

Direction by Laurie Woolery

In a 1990 Boston suburb, Dolores, a bicultural Latina at midlife, struggles to be a good aunt to her troubled, teenage niece Rosa, while recovering from her own difficult past, with help from her cats, Felipe and Osvaldo.

Content Advisory: Family alcoholism, female infertility, and recovery from childhood sexual abuse.

8:30 p.m.

Quad Cinema

(34 W. 13th St., New York, NY 10011)

North Star Projects Latiné ShortsFest (NSPLSF)

Curation by Andrés Nicolás Chaves & Adriana Gaviria

Join us for the second NSP Latiné ShortsFest during SolFest! The evening will include 12 short films featuring Latiné filmmakers Claudia Mulet, Hedi B. Asencio, Ana Grethel Solis, Adriana Gaviria, Marissa Chibás, Alejandro Alviar, Pablo Mejia, Alessia Sanchez, Fernando Morett, Steven Luna, Anjelica Bourland, and Alessia Sanchez.

There will be a Pre-Screening Mixer, beginning at 8 p.m. at the Quad Bar. Patrons will be invited to check-in for the event at 8:30 p.m. until the film screening begins at 8:45 p.m. Following the screening, there will be a Q&A with the filmmakers moderated by Adriana Gaviria and Andrés Nicolás Chaves, which is expected to wrap by 11:00 p.m.

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 8

Three Short Works: New York Historias

To learn more about HISTORIAS, a multi-year initiative of The Clemente and LxNY Latinx Arts Consortium of New York, click here.

Te quiero en South Street Seaport

By Peter Pasco

Direction by Katherine George

Alfredo proposes to his long time girlfriend Yolanda at one of the most romantic spots in the city, South Street Seaport. What could go wrong?

Afro-Borinqueño

By Reynaldo Piniella

Direction by Reza Salazar

Afro-Borinqueño is a solo theater piece about Arturo Schomburg, a man who crossed oceans in a quest to preserve our history.

La Gringa No Baila

By Jen Diaz

Direction by Adriana Gaviria

"Where are you from?" seems like a simple question, but it's a little complicated when you were born on an island colonized by the U.S. & raised in the Deep South. Jen navigates the complexities of diasporic Puerto Rican identity and grapples with the question of where home truly lies. Join her on a heartfelt and humorous journey as she explores the intersections of heritage, identity, and belonging in this captivating one-woman show.

Lottery Boy

By Edwin Sanchez (Excerpt – Act Two)

Direction by Jorge B. Merced

At the end of act one, Paco, a 16-year-old boy, had found a way to take control of his dead father's lottery winnings. In act two, Paco learns just what money can and can't buy, and one can have all the money in the world and still be powerless to help the people he loves.

La Tormenta

By Ana Luz Zambrana and Aditya Joshi

Direction by Kathleen Capdesuñer

In La Tormenta, Zaire and her daughter Estrella attend Abuela’s 93rd birthday in Castañer, Puerto Rico. Estrella resents her older sister Maria, whose distance from the family is the harshest form of abandonment, and she and Zaire don’t even expect Maria to show up and celebrate Abuela. But when Maria arrives at the same time as a hurricane and power outage, the standard-issue chaos of a Puerto Rican family devolves into something much more corrosive.

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 9

6:30 p.m.
PRTT, Manhattan

Dead Girl's Quinceañera

By Phanésia Pharel

Direction by Melissa Crespo

Being 15 is even more complicated when your best friend goes missing. Maria's besties are in a race against the clock to find out what happened to her and bring her home alive. A dark comedic thriller about secrets, sisterhood, and crime solving; Dead Girl's Quinceañera asks what it means to come of age in a messed-up world and what we need to do to survive.

Content advisory: Violence, guns, and sexual abuse.

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 10

The Brunch Crowd

By Dillon Yruegas

Direction by Rula A. Muñoz

Always wanted to know how transgender people of color go about their daily lives? Spoiler alert: they don't just talk about hormones, surgery, or anything else that The Cis seem to be so obsessed about; they go to brunch and drink too many mimosas, just like you! In The Brunch Crowd, follow the lives of four twenty-something queer trans friends who often meet at their favorite Mexican brunch spot in rapidly gentrifying Austin, Texas.

January 6th, A Celebration: A bodega princess remembers tradition, not insurrection

By Iraisa Ann Reilly

Direction by Estefanía Fadul

In the basement cafeteria of St. Nicholas School in Egg Harbor City, NJ, the Latiné community held a huge celebration every January 6th to celebrate the Feast of Los Reyes Magos. For writer and performer Iraisa Ann Reilly, the fiesta in 1998 changed the course of her life forever. Reilly recounts four years’ worth of Reyes Magos celebrations, introducing the audience to members of her family and her hometown where she grew up between language and culture. This interactive one-woman show invites the audience to celebrate and reclaim the date, January 6th.

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