Raquel Almazan is the Executive Artistic Director of La Lucha Arts: an independent company dedicated to producing interdisciplinary theatre and media projects, that create transformational arts participation between communities, advocates, audiences and artists. La Lucha Arts collaborates with organizations, social movements, and impacted individuals towards providing a platform for historically excluded – abandoned narratives and people.
Almazan is the creator/facilitator of arts programs for intergenerational groups in private institutions, public schools, residences with organizations, university workshops and prisons. Her work with vulnerable communities include the incarcerated, formerly incarcerated and forum plays with Latinx & queer immigrants within the performing/writing disciplines has led her to sharing artistic and political spaces with thousands of participants. Almazan was awarded The Indie Theatre Fund Prize for Leaders of Color, Artistic Directorship of La Lucha Arts.
These select credits are amongst several initiatives that La Lucha Arts has participated in collaborating in and producing:
La Paloma Prisoner, world premiere in collaboration with Chelsea Factory, advocacy events/tours with communities and workshop production at The Signature Theatre. La Negra, presented by and in collaboration with Bric Arts residency and staged readings with Classical Theatre of Harlem- Lincoln Center, Iati Theatre. Workshop production of Café at Columbia Stages. Development workshops for The Hopefulness with Rising Circle, Tre Roma University, Dominican Arts Collective. The Latin is American play cycle lecture performance (Bridgewater State University). Solos shows She Wolves (P.S. 122, New York International Fringe Fest, excerpt presentations at several national conferences) and Porning the Planet (Dixon Place, Pangea World Theatre). Short film Death of the Doll with the (BHLIFF LA Festival).
(Community Partner Collaboration selections: Pen America, Close Rikers Campaign, Steps to End Family Violence, Brooklyn DA’s Re-entry task force and The United Nations).
Funders include: The Doris Duke Foundation, The Howard Gilman Foundation, National Association of Latino Arts & Culture, The MAP Fund, NYC Mayor’s Woman Fund, The Bret Adams and Paul Reisch Foundation, New York State Council of the Arts, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Arthur J. Harris Social Justice Prize- Columbia University and the New York Community Trust. The Fund for Creative Communities/New York State Council on the Arts,The Manhattan Community Arts Fund. Miami Dade Cultural Affairs Community Grant, Tropiculture Miami, and Florida Arts Grant and the Miami Artist Access Individual Travel Grant.
More about LATIN IS AMERICA PLAY CYCLE HERE
Via CONTACT PAGE HERE reach out upon interest for the use of monologues and or obtaining a copy of full plays-screenplays.
LA LUCHA ARTS – colabora con organizaciones de arte, comunidades e iniciativas sociales para producir proyectos interdisciplinarios de teatro y comunicación.
Colaboración en proyectos para la comunidad: Pen America, Close Rikers Campaign, Steps to End Family Violence, Oficina del Fiscal de Brooklyn, Naciones Unidas.
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