Teo Castellanos to Appear at BRT's Bridges Informance Series Tonight, 10/17

Bristol Riverside Theatre continues its Bridges Informance Series with renowned theatre artist Teo Castellanos tonight, October 17th at 7:30 PM. Castellanos’ appearance will continue to introduce audiences to innovative performances as BRT gears up for the February 2009 World Premiere of What You Will, a BRT original urban theatre adaptation of Shakespeare’s comedy Twelfth Night.

 To illuminate the unique concept of What You Will, BRT presents the Bridges Informance Series bringing nationally renowned theatre artists to the Philadelphia area.  Part-performance, part-discussion each event will challenge and inspire audiences’ ideas of theatre today.

Castellanos is an actor/writer/director known for connecting stories of the people in the streets to contemporary life, something Shakespeare did in his plays - writing for the common man. Castellanos is the founder and Artistic Director of D-Projects, an urban arts collective whose original theatre work examines and dissects social ills through performance. He has taught theatre workshops throughout the U.S. and the U.S. Virgin Islands. For five years, he directed a theatre company of African American and Latino youth/young adults that toured original work to jails, detention centers, residential substance abuse treatment programs and community centers carrying a message focused on HIV prevention.

Castellanos is author of War, Revolution, and the Projects, a one-man trilogy, which has toured on the East coast, and the one-man show NE 2nd Avenue, based on Miami characters, which was commissioned and produced by Miami Light Project as part of their 2001-2002 Contemporary Performance Series. Born in Puerto Rico and raised in Miami, Castellanos received his BFA in Theatre from Florida Atlantic University under a full scholarship where he studied with four-time Tony Award winner Zoe Caldwell.

His NE 2nd Avenue was awarded the International Cultural Exchange grant by Miami-Dade County Cultural Affairs, which allowed him to bring his work to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival where it won the Fringe First Award. It was also nominated for a South Florida Carbonell Award for Best New Work and was awarded Best Solo Performance by the Miami New Times and Best Original Play by the Miami Beach Sun. It is currently touring nationally and internationally. He is a member of the diverse theatre collective, The Hittite Empire, based in Los Angeles, with which he has toured in the U.S. and London. He has also toured Cuba as part of the Parece Blanca cast, a theatre production that paired Cuban exiles with artists living on the island for a historic performance.

The Bridges Informance Series has been supported by a grant from the Marketing Innovation Program, a program of the Philadelphia Center for Arts and Heritage, funded by The Pew Charitable Trusts, and administered by The University of the Arts, Philadelphia.

What You Will has been supported by a grant from the Philadelphia Theatre Initiative with additional support from the Marketing Innovation Program, both programs of the Philadelphia Center for Arts and Heritage, funded by The Pew Charitable Trusts, and administered by The University of the Arts, Philadelphia.

 

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