New York's City Parks Foundation to Bring BROWNSVILLE BRED to Summerstage 30

Elaine Del Valle returns, for the first time in 25 years, to her hometown of Brownsville Brooklyn NY, to perform her multiple award winning Off Broadway play, Brownsville Bred, as part of New York's City Parks Foundation 30th Anniversary of SummerStage.

Brooklyn, New York April 10, 2015 -After more than twenty five years, multiple awards, rave reviews, a sold out Off Broadway run, and corporate and college tours, Elaine Del Valle returns to her hometown of Brownsville Brooklyn New York to perform her autobiographical one woman play, Brownsville Bred- Brownsville Bred is the New York Latinas true coming of age story set in Brownsville Brooklyn and is being presented at Brownsville's Betsy Head Park courtesy of Nuyorican Poets Café through New York's City Parks Foundation 30th Anniversary of SummerStage presented by Capital One Bank.

The event is Free of Charge and will take place on Saturday, June 13, 2015 (RAIN OR SHINE) from 7-9pm at Betsy Head Park, located at the intersection of Dumont Avenue and Bristol Street, in the Brownsville Section of Brooklyn New York (11212).

"My first acting experience was at my Brownsville School P.S. 284. Many of my former teachers, neighbors and classmates reconnected with me through the success of my play. I was especially happy to reconnect with my old gym teacher, Ronald Serber who read about Brownsville Bred in the paper. He was responsible for the giving me my first theater performance experience. It was in one rehearsal moment that I finally felt that my existence mattered. That's an unforgettable experience to have at 11 years old. Now bringing live theater to Brownsville's Betsy Head park, where I used to cheerlead, and watch my father coach my brothers in baseball, really brings it full circle. I hope that this live theater can inspire a love of arts in the community as it has in me. It's an honor to have been selected as one of the artists featured in SummerStage." said Elaine Del Valle

Brownsville Bred is a critically acclaimed 90 minute one woman play written, performed and lived by Elaine Del Valle and directed by Pamela Moller Kareman. In performance since 2009, the play made its off Broadway debut in 2011 at 59E59 Theaters. Brownsville Bred is a true-to-life celebration of a young person with a remarkable spirit who triumphs over tragedy. Crime, drugs and poverty mix with the joys of family, hope, salsa and the birth of rap, to create a truly remarkable evening of theater. Set in 1980's Brownsville Brooklyn's Langston Hughes Projects, the play chronicles one Nuyorican girls coming of age. Elaine Del Valle's hilarious and harrowing story is at once frightening, exhilarating and ultimately triumphant. For details visit www.BrownsvilleBred.com

SummerStage, a program of City Parks Foundation, presents performances of outstanding artistic quality, free of charge, to serve the diverse communities of New York City. The artists represent a breadth of genres and cultures and perform in an outdoor setting accessible to people of all ages and backgrounds. SummerStage strives to develop audiences' deepening appreciation for contemporary, traditional, and emerging artists as well as the communities in which these artists originate. www.cityparksfoundation.org/summerstage

Elaine Del Valle (writer/performer) was born and raised in the Langston Hughes Projects in The Brownsville Section of Brooklyn, New York. Del Valle was named a "Trendsetter" at the Multicultural Media Forum, and an "Inspiring Artist" by the Soulfrito Arts Foundation. She studied acting under the legendary Wynn Handman, and it was in his studio that she wrote and developed her autobiographical, multiple award winning, one woman play, Brownsville Bred. Del Valle owns and operates Del Valle Productions and a proud member of the Writers Guild of America, Dramatists Guild, SAG-AFTRA, Actors Equity Association and The National Academy of Arts and Sciences. She also writes, directs and or produces several comedy web series, including Reasons Y I'm Single (www.ReasonsY.com).

Nuyorican Poets Café has served for over 40 years as a home for groundbreaking works of poetry, music, theater and visual arts. A multicultural and multi-arts institution, the Cafe gives voice to a diverse group of rising poets, actors, filmmakers and musicians who have not yet found consistent havens for their work. The Cafe champions the use of poetry, jazz, theater, hip hop and spoken word as means of social empowerment for minority and underprivileged artists. Allen Ginsberg called the Cafe "the most integrated place on the planet." www.Nuyorican.org