Brooklyn Arts Council

Raquel Almaz�n is from Madrid, Spain, and is also of Costa Rican descent, she�s lived most of her life in the States and is now an emerging interdisciplinary artist. She holds a B.F.A. in Theatre from University of Florida/graduate of the New World School of the Arts Conservatory where she developed work as a writer, director, actor and dramaturge. She has developed original work in New York City and South Florida with grants for her writing/ performance roles; including her one person-multi-media production of She Wolves: Women in Sex, Death and Rebirth. She has been touring She Wolves at many arts conferences around the country, including P.S. 122, NYC Fringe Fest, and The National Women�s Studies Conference. Raquel is the training director for the acting school John Robert Powers in Manhattan. She starred as the lead in Escaping Juarez at El Museo del Barrio. She was selected into the Latino Writers Lab with the National Association of Latin Independent Producers for her feature screenplay Death of the Doll, her short film that screened at 1st Boyle Heights Latina Independent Film Extravaganza in L.A. With Manhattan Theatre Club she performs throughout NYC Schools and Rikers prison. She was recently featured in the production of Deviant Borders at New World Art Center in MA. Her new plays as writer/ performer are Glossy Page Pimps, commissioned by Miami Light Project as a staged reading, and the Hopefulness/Esperanza opened at the Latino Cultural Center. Member of The Dramatist Guild and The Playwrights� Center.

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