Dixon Place & National Queer Theater present In Partnership With the Mayor's Office of Immigrant Affairs and NYC Pride Maid in America Conceived by and Starring Migguel Anggelo
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Description
Inspired by true life experience, Migguel Anggelo is a hotel maid with hopes of performing on the grand stage in this original, short film premiering at the 2020 Criminal Queerness Festival. As he cleans and sings his heart out, he reflects on the promise of the American Dream. Can it actually be achieved or is it a figment of an immigrant’s imagination?
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Migguel Anggelo is a Venezuelan born / Brooklyn based multidisciplinary artist. His work explores the intersections of queer, Latino, and immigration identities, as well as the role of the artist in contemporary society. Migguel Anggelo is currently a 2020 Resident Artist of the NY Presenter Consortium and was previously a 2019 Joe’s Pub Working Group resident. As a musician, Migguel Anggelo has released two albums (Dónde Estará Matisse and La Casa Azul) and as a theater artist, has been awarded residencies to develop new works at the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts (Philadelphia) and BRIC (Brooklyn). He has been featured in festivals like LPAC’s Rough Draft and Provincetown’s Afterglow and has served as a cultural attaché, under the auspices of the U.S. State Department, in two separate 10-city tours of Russia. Currently, Migguel has been rigorously developing and performing his outrageously queer and gender-bending concert experience, LatinXoxo, created with J. Julian Christopher, Jaime Lozano, and Srđa Vasiljević. He also conceived and performed So Close: Love and Hate, Another Son of Venezuela, I, Inmigrante, and Welcome to La Misa, Baby all co-created with Obie Award-winner David Drake. Migguel is concurrently developing several new works and recording projects, including an album entitled English with an Accent, and a multi-character and immigrant-driven musical entitled The Last Supper with Christina Quintana (CQ) and Jaime Lozano. For more, please visit: www.migguelanggelo.com
Instagram: @migguelanggelo
SRĐA VASILJEVIĆ is a Bosnian-American director and the resident director of Theatre for One. He has developed new and revived works with companies such as New Dramatists, La MaMa and Ford’s Theatre. Recent Projects include NUBIA (Roulette Intermedium), Me Alone With No Friends (ArsNova), Hang On (The Civilians), LatinXoxo (Joe’s Pub), and When I Started Dating Men (Dixon Place). Srđa created the drag fitness experience, WERK OUT! and served as the visual director behind Garth.’s debut EP, “Human Nature” and the director of the album’s title music video. Member of The Civilians R&D Group, Lincoln Center Directors’ Lab and an inaugural member of the Directors Lab Mediterranean. www.sr-da.com @srda
Gustavo Campos is a filmmaker and photographer of more than 30 years. He began his career in Brazil, shooting for Sua Boa Estrela, published by Mercedes-Benz. While traveling for the magazine, he photographed many important Brazilian artists and developed a close relationship with Grupo Galpão, a renowned theater company. In 1999, Gustavo worked as photo editor for a book celebrating the first 15 years of the group: Grupo Galpão, 15 Anos de Risco e Rito. That same year, he moved to New York and got his start working with some of the top event designers in the city, photographing and filming their events. Since, he has worked on more than 200 projects involving still and video.
J. Julian Christopher is a Queer, Puerto Rican and Dominican playwright. MFA: The New School for Drama. Playwriting awards: New Dramatist (Class of 2025), 2019/2020 Rita Goldberg Playwrights’ Workshop at The Lark, 2017/2017 Pipeline Theatre PlayLab, 2015 Queens Arts Council Grant, and the 2009 Public Theater Emerging Writers Group. Productions: Man Boobs (Pride Films & Plays, 2011), Nico was a Fashion Model (Counter-Productions Theatre Company, 2013), Animals Commit Suicide (First Floor Theater, 2015), Locusts Have No King (INTAR, 2016), and Bundle of Sticks (INTAR, 2020). Julian is an Assistant Professor of Theatre at Queensborough Community College.
Jaime Lozano Heralded the “next big thing” by Lin‐Manuel Miranda, credits include: THE YELLOW BRICK ROAD (Off‐Broadway and National Tour), CARMEN LA CUBANA (European Tour), CHILDREN OF SALT (NYMF 2016 “Best of Fest”), among others. From Monterrey, Mexico, Jaime holds an MFA in Musical Theatre Writing from NYU Tisch School of the Arts, is a 2020 Joe’s Pub Working Group resident artist, and a teacher/activist for the nonprofit R.Evolución Latina. As Migguel Anggelo’s frequent collaborator, the two co-created LATINXOXO, and he performs frequently with Anggelo. They are currently co-creating a new immigration musical with playwright Christina Quintana: THE LAST SUPPER. www.jaimelozano.net
Ryan Park is a Costume Designer. Kinky Boots (Paramount) Evita (Drury Lane) Joseph and the Amazing…50th Anniversary Concert (Lincoln Center) Ariadne… (Cincinnati Opera) Little Shop (ACT & The Cape Playhouse) Cabaret (Boston Conservatory) LatinXOXO (Joe’s Pub) Beauty and the Beast (Drury Lane) Altar Boyz (The Cape Playhouse); Associate/assistant designer on twenty Broadway productions including My Fair Lady (LCT), Warpaint, The King and I (LCT), Fiddler on the Roof, Gigi, and Bridges of Madison County as well as operas at the Chicago Lyric, English National Opera, Houston Grand Opera, and Metropolitan Opera.TV and short film: Are You Joking? (The Battery Co.), Sign (Iris Prize), NBC Upfronts RyanParkDesign.com
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Credits
Conceived and Starring
Migguel Anggelo
Writer
J. Julian Christopher
Musical Direction and Arrangements
Jaime Lozano
Costumes
Ryan Park
Director of Photography and Editing
Gustavo Campos
Director
SRĐA