Cesar and Celia are top campaign managers on opposite sides of the partisan divide. They also used to be married. They also just rocked up to Ibiza to honeymoon with their new spouses... Coward wrote it, but Cubans explode it--rocketing from old world to the new, from the ballot box to the bedroom in a no-holds barred immigrant debate that's smart, sexy and f*cking uproarious.
Friday, July 11 at 7pm
Marist University, Poughkeepsie NY
VIDAS PRIVADAS is commissioned by Two River Theater (Justin Waldman, Artistic Director, Nora DeVeau-Rosen, Managing Director).
Supported in partnership with Two River Theater.
VIDAS PRIVADAS is being developed thanks to the Noël Coward Foundation.
CHRISTINA PUMARIEGA (Playwright/Celia Mechoso)* acts and writes. Often simultaneously. This spring she performed in the world premiere of her play ¡VOS! at Two River Theater. ¡VOS! was developed at the Ojai Playwrights Conference and received the Edgerton Foundation New Play Award. She attends Hedgebrook this fall and is a 25/26 member of Center Theater Group's LA Writers' Workshop. Other plays include LABOR (Leah Ryan honorable mention), JOAN DARK (DCPA Summit), HARBOR GIRLS and HER MATH PLAY (EST/Sloan Grant). She is currently under commission by MTC/Sloan, Denver Center for the Performing Arts and Two River Theater. TV writing credits include Disney+ and NBC. Acting on and Off-Broadway and in television and film, Pumariega has cross examined Coach Taylor, made out with the Fly and set a Cuban pharmacy ablaze in a corset. MFA, NYU Graduate Acting Program. christinapumariega.com
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EDDIE TORRES (Director) As a performer, he most recently appeared in Bruce Norris’s DOWNSTATE at Playwrights Horizons (nominated for Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Featured Performer), as well as in the productions at the National Theatre in London and at Steppenwolf Theatre Company in Chicago. In addition to being a director, he has directed at The Old Globe, productions of EL BORRACHO, FAMILIAR, NATIVE GARDENS, and WATER BY THE SPOONFUL. He is one of the Old Globe Classical Directing Fellows(2021). He also directed the podcast of MACBETH for NEXT Chapter Podcasts and Play On Shakespeare. He directed the world premiere of Kristoffer Diaz’s THE ELABORATE ENTRANCE OF CHAD DEITY (Victory Gardens Theater/Teatro Vista), which was named Best Play of 2009 by the Chicago Tribune and garnered five Joseph Jefferson Awards including “Best Production – Play” and “Best Director – Play.” He has also directed at several regional theatres including Geffen Playhouse, Second Stage Theatre, Goodman Theatre, The Public Theater, Repertorio Español, and more. His other awards include the Latin ACE Award for Best Musical and the Artistas de Teatro Independiente Award for Best Director. He was an Assistant Professor of Practice in Theater at Wesleyan University, and he is currently an Associate Professor at the University of Illinois Chicago and is Co-founder and Artistic Director Emeritus at Teatro Vista.
CHRISTINA M. WOOLARD (Stage Manager)* stage manages for theatre, circus and live events. Previous credits include COLD WAR CHOIR PRACTICE and WILDER GONE (Clubbed Thumb), THE SHARK IS BROKEN, CLYDE'S, and A DOLL'S HOUSE, PART 2 (George Street Playhouse), LAUGHS IN SPANISH (Hartford Stage), STALKER (off-Broadway), A GOOD DAY TO ME NOT TO YOU (Waterwell), SPACE DOGS (MCC), SUMMER STOCK and PASSING THROUGH (Goodspeed Musicals), KINKY BOOTS (Bucks County Playhouse), WILL YOU COME WITH ME? and NOTES ON MY MOTHER'S DECLINE (The Play Company), DEAD + ALIVE (One Year Lease), SUNSET CIRCUS (Parallel Exit). Proud AEA member and alumna of Rutgers University. For Mom — your song is in my heart.
CAST
MAGGIE BOFILL (America Cruz)* is a founding member of LAByrinth Theater Company and member of Ensemble Studio Theater. THEATER: Estella, LAUGHS IN SPANISH (Hartford Stage, Denver Center, Dir. Lisa Portes; Henry Award and Connecticut Critics Circle Award nominee); Carolina, DECEMBER, A LOVE YEARS IN THE MAKING (The Alley Theater, Dir. Marcela Lorca; world premiere); Tracy, JUDGEMENT DAY (Chicago Shakespeare Theater, with Jason Alexander, Dir. Moritz von Stuelpnagel; world premiere); Amalia, AMERICAN MARIACHI (Two River Theater, Dir. James Vasquez); Jennifer, WAR WORDS (New York Rep/New Light Theater Project, Dir. Sarah Norris; world premiere); Soyla, AMERICAN MARIACHI (The Alley Theater, Dir. KJ Sanchez); Nora, A DOLL’S HOUSE, PART 2 (Long Wharf, Dir. Will Davis). TV AND FILM: ELSBETH, FBI: MOST WANTED, SMASH, HIGH TOWN, THE PATH, LAW & ORDER: SVU. Short film: CUBAN AMERICAN GOTHIC (nationally aired on PBS) by Pata De Perro Productions, featuring, written, and co-produced by Maggie and Maria Rodriguez.
CRAIG WESLEY DIVINO (Tatum Stark)* is an actor, musician, and fight choreographer. Now based in Brooklyn, he was raised in England and still occasionally gets his spellings confused. He received his B.A. in English from Cornell University and his M.F.A. in Acting from Brown University/Trinity Rep. Craig is co-founder of Fault Line Theatre, an Off-Broadway company that develops and produces new works, now in its fifteenth season. He also serves on the board of Trinity Theatre Group, a nonprofit providing theater-based after-school literacy enrichment programs for economically disadvantaged communities. Stage credits include 59E59, Wheelhouse Theater, The Cape Playhouse, Dorset Theatre, Chautauqua Theater Co, Trinity Rep, Irish Rep, Cincinnati Playhouse, and Fault Line Theatre. TV credits include THE BLACKLIST, WU-TANG: AN AMERICAN SAGA, EVIL, and POWER BOOK III: RAISING KANAN. Craig is also the General Manager and starting pitcher for the multi-championship-winning Broadway Show League softball team, The Downtowners. http://www.faultlinetheatre.org | @trinitytheatregroup
DANIIL KRIMER (Stanislav)* OFF-OFF BROADWAY: REALLY REALLY (Normal Ave Productions) REGIONAL: HENRY JOHNSON (Victory Gardens), SHERLOCK HOLMES (West Virginia Public Theatre) ROMEO AND JULIET, TWELFTH NIGHT (Kane Repertory Theatre). TV: FBI and CHICAGO PD. Northern Illinois University MFA. Stewart Talent.
ARMANDO RIESCO (Cesar Cruz)* Currently based in New York, Armando Riesco most recently appeared on screen in the Disney+ series NATIONAL TREASURE. He previously appeared as a series regular on Showtime’s THE CHI. Armando’s long list of credits includes appearances on HBO Max’s AND JUST LIKE THAT, CBS’s BULL, NBC’s LAW & ORDER: SVU, CBS’s THE CODE, and Starz’s POWER, among many others. On stage, he can most recently be seen in The Public’s Off-Broadway production of DEEP BLUE SOUND. Armando reprised his role as troubled Iraq War veteran and American hero, Elliot Ortiz, in THE HAPPIEST SONG PLAY LAST, the final installment in a trilogy by Pulitzer Prize winner Quiara Alegría Hudes (IN THE HEIGHTS and WATER BY THE SPOONFUL) at Second Stage in New York City. He was nominated for Best Actor at the 2014 Lucille Lortel Awards for his outstanding performance. His other Off-Broadway credits include THE FUNDAMENTALS (Steppenwolf Theatre Company), JUNK (La Jolla Playhouse), and TOAST (The Public Theater). Armando was born in Puerto Rico to Cuban parents and raised in San Juan. He moved to Illinois to sharpen his craft at Northwestern University’s highly regarded theater program, where he obtained his bachelor’s degree.