Runs
Fri, Sep 18 – Sat, Sep 19
Fri and Sat at 7:30pm
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Special Show Info
Running time: 120 minutes.
There will be an intermission.

Hudson Guild Theatre
6539 Santa Monica Blvd
Los Angeles, CA  90038
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Wheelchair Access
The theatre has concessions.

Two solo shows. One truth.

The Latino fight to define who we are before others do it for us.

From the corners of the Lower East Side to the soundstages of Hollywood, Richard Velazquez built a persona just to survive, and Yelyna De León, MFA in hand, challenges an identity the industry tries to force on her, each reclaiming their truth on their own terms.

Each piece followed by a talkback with the artists.

DANCING WITH DEMONS
Written & performed by Richard Velazquez
Directed by Allan Wasserman
Just Another Demon opens with a Jehovah’s Witness childhood and the drug trade of 1980s Lower East Side New York. Nancy, the award-winning centerpiece, revisits the dance floor where Velazquez first found freedom. Mindful Mijo closes the night.

HOLLYWOOD CHOLA
Written by Josefina Lopez
Performed by Yelyna De León
Directed by Lindsey Haley
HOLLYWOOD FRINGE FESTIVAL SCHOLARSHIP WINNER
A one-woman show with music, about Xochitl Guerrero, a Mexican-American actress repeatedly typecast in Hollywood, who is ordered into anger management after an altercation with a studio security guard.