TAXILANDIA-NYC digital program TAXILANDIA-NYC programa digital An ¡Oye Group! Production presented by New York Theatre Workshop & The Bushwick Starr in association with The Tank. Un grupo ¡Oye! Producción presentada por New York Theatre Workshop & The Bushwick Starr en asociación con The Tank. TAXILANDIA CORE TEAM | EQUIPO CENTRAL DE TAXILANDIA: Modesto Flako Jimenez Creator / Writer / Performer Kevin Torres ¡Oye Group! Managing & Technical Director Anastasia Beliakova ¡Oye Group! Development Director Adriana Ascencio ¡Oye Group! General Manager Borna Barzin ¡Oye Group! Marketing Associate Aniya Picou ¡Oye Group! Programs Associate Reuven Glezer Taxilandia Social Media Manager Andrew Kircher Consulting Creative Producer Sandra Garner, Lingua Franca Arts Producer Kendall Allen Production Manager TAXILANDIA VIRTUAL SALONS | SALONES VIRTUALES: Modesto Flako Jimenez Lead Artist / Salon Host / Creator Ben Gassman Guest Artist - Queens Merlixse Ventura Guest Artist - Manhattan Marisa Tornello Guest Artist - Staten Island Sandie Luna Guest Artist - The Bronx Kevin Torres Technical Director / Video Editor Andrew Kircher Consulting Creative Producer Sandra Garner, Lingua Franca Arts Producer Level Forward / LABZ team: Bekah Nutt (Designer, Level Forward) Julia Dunetz (Producer, Level Forward) Greg Apollon (Technical Director, Level Forward) Cherese Lumsden-Wallace (Technical Director, Level Forward) Brent Zachery (Production Team, Level Forward) Caterin Camargo-Alvarez (Production Team, Level Forward) Marjan Riazi (Production Team, Level Forward) Farah Allen (EP, The Labz) Adrienne Becker (EP, Level Forward) TAXILANDIA GALLERIES EXPERIENCE | EXPERIENCIA GALERiAS TAXILANDIA: Modesto Flako Jimenez Lead Artist / Writer / Creator Shy Richardson Dramaturge Victor Morales Video Designer Juan Alvarez (Wamoo) Sound Designer Carolyn Mraz Set Design Consultant Megan Lang Lighting Design Consultant Fernando ‘Ski’ Romero Pop-Up Mural Artist Sasha Beliakova Pop-Up Mural Assistant Kevin Torres Technical Director Andrew Kircher Consulting Creative Producer Sandra Garner, Lingua Franca Arts Producer Kendall Allen Production Manager Emma Johnson & Jay Maury The Bushwick Starr / Technical Support Alex’s Luncheonette, Elvy’s Pastelitos, Local Businesses / Los Hermanos, Mr. Grocery Corp, Tony’s Pizza Bushwick Storefront Galleries Featured Poets: Modesto Flako Jimenez ‘Bushwick, Brooklyn’ (Alex’s Luncheonette) Elisabet Velasquez ‘Rust’ (Elvy’s Pastelitos) & ‘New Brooklyn’ ( Los Hermanos) Shy Richardson ‘Primo’s Bright Yellow Bodega’ (Mr. Grocery Corp) Naya Rodriguez ‘332 Palmetto’ (Tony’s Pizza) Max Desir, Elvis Valdez & Gustavo Calzado ‘Bushwick’ performed by Amir Powell (Tony’s Pizza) ‘ART OF WORDS’ COLORING BOOKS | LIBROS PARA COLOREAR DE ‘ARTE DE PALABRAS’: Modesto Flako Jimenez Lead Artist / Writer/Creator Fernando ‘Ski’ Romero Lead Artist / Visual Art Kevin Torres Technical Director NICER Tats Cru, Bio Tats Cru, Contributing Artists Hommy Diaz “Magnus Alpha”, ADER.NYC, Gigi Chen, Monsieur Artist (Elewis), Doser, Minus, Grimace NZONE, SPECS, Christopher Myers, Samantha Suarez, Noel Allain, Plasma Slug, Arts and Rhymes TEXTILANDIA WITH FLAKO | TEXTILANDIA CON FLAKO: Modesto Flako Jimenez Lead Artist / Writer / Co-Creator Andrew Kircher Lead Artist / Co-Creator Shy Richardson Dramaturge Kevin Torres Technical Director Sandra Garner, Lingua Franca Arts Producer TAXI RIDES WITH FLAKO | PASEOS EN TAXI CON FLAKO: Modesto Flako Jimenez Lead Artist / Writer / Performer Kevin Torres Technical Director Shy Richardson Dramaturge Victor Morales Voiceover: Radio Dispatcher Kendall Allen Voiceover: La Vieja Panameña Kevin Torres Voiceover: La Fur Victor Morales Video Designer Marcelo Anez Sound Designer Andrew Kircher Consulting Creative Producer Sandra Garner, Lingua Franca Arts Producer Kendall Allen Production Manager Kourtney-Cymone Charles Assistant Stage Manager Keenan Hurley, Daniel Soto Customer Service / FOH reps ABOUT ¡OYE GROUP! | ACERCA DE ¡OYE GROUP! We are a Brooklyn-based production company that serves as an incubator to artists both native and immigrant to the city through original productions, festivals and educational programming. Somos una productora con sede en Brooklyn que sirve como incubadora de artistas tanto nativos como inmigrantes de la ciudad a través de producciones originales, festivales y programación educativa. CO-PRESENTING PARTNERS | CO-PRESENTADORES: The Bushwick Starr is an Obie Award winning non profit theater that presents an annual Season of new performance work. We are an organization defined by both our artists and our community, and since 2007, we have grown into a thriving theatrical venue, a vital neighborhood arts center, and a destination for exciting and engaging performance. We provide a springboard for emerging professional artists to make career-defining leaps, and we are a sanctuary where established performance companies come to experiment and innovate. We are also a neighborhood playhouse, serving our Bushwick, Brooklyn community's diverse artistic needs and impulses. Our past Seasons have included new work from groundbreaking artists such as Jeremy O. Harris, Heather Christian, Diana Oh, The Mad Ones, Clare Barron, Phillip Howze, Dave Malloy, Daniel Fish, Haruna Lee, and the TEAM. w ww.thebushwickstarr.org. El Bushwick Starr es un teatro sin fines de lucro ganador de un premio Obie que presenta una temporada anual de nuevos trabajos escénicos. Somos una organización definida tanto por nuestros artistas como por nuestra comunidad, y desde 2007, nos hemos convertido en un lugar teatral próspero, un centro de arte vital del vecindario y un destino para presentaciones emocionantes y atractivas. Brindamos un trampolín para que los artistas profesionales emergentes den saltos que definan su carrera, y somos un santuario donde las compañías de performance establecidas vienen a experimentar e innovar. También somos una casa de juegos del vecindario, al servicio de las diversas necesidades e impulsos artísticos de nuestra comunidad de Bushwick, Brooklyn. Nuestras temporadas pasadas han incluido nuevos trabajos de artistas innovadores como Jeremy O. Harris, Heather Christian, Diana Oh, The Mad Ones, Clare Barron, Phillip Howze, Dave Malloy, Daniel Fish, Haruna Lee y el EQUIPO. www.thebushwickstarr.org. For The Bushwick Starr / Para El Bushwick Starr: Noel Allain Artistic Director Sue Kessler Creative Director Lucy Jackson Interim Producing Director Lauren Miller Development Director Jehan O. Young Cultural Competence & General Manager Emma Johnson Production Manager Jay Maury Technical Director Vanessa Pereda-Felix Education & Community Director New York Theatre Workshop empowers visionary theatre-makers and brings their work to adventurous audiences through productions, artist workshops and educational programs. We nurture pioneering new writers alongside powerhouse playwrights, engage inimitable genre-shaping directors, and support emerging artists in the earliest days of their careers. We’ve mounted over 150 productions from artists whose work has shaped our very idea of what theatre can be, including Jonathan Larson's R ent ; Tony Kushner's Slavs! and H omebody/Kabul; Doug Wright's Qu ills; Claudia Shear's Bl own Sideways Through Life and Dirty Blonde ; Paul Rudnick's T he Most Fabulous Story Ever Told and V alhalla ; Martha Clarke’s V ienna: Lusthaus ; Will Power’s The Seven and F etch Clay, Make Man ; Caryl Churchill's Mad Forest , Far Away, A Number and Love and Information ; Jessica Blank and Erik Jensen’s Aftermath; Rick Elice’s P eter and the Starcatcher ; Glen Hansard, Markéta Irglová and Enda Walsh’s On ce ; David Bowie and Enda Walsh’s L azarus ; Dael Orlandersmith’s The Gimmick and F orever ; and eight acclaimed productions directed by Ivo van Hove. NYTW’s productions have received a Pulitzer Prize, 25 Tony Awards and assorted Obie, Drama Desk and Lucille Lortel Awards. NYTW is represented on Broadway with Anaïs Mitchell’s Hadestown developed with and directed by Rachel Chavkin and the upcoming S ing Street, based on the motion picture written and directed by John Carney, with a book by Enda Walsh, music and lyrics by Gary Clark & John Carney, directed by Rebecca Taichman. www.nytw.org New York Theatre Workshop empodera a creadores de teatro visionarios y lleva su trabajo a un público aventurero a través de producciones, talleres de artistas y programas educativos. Cultivamos a nuevos escritores pioneros junto con dramaturgos influyentes, fomentamos a directores de géneros inimitables y apoyamos a artistas emergentes en los primeros días de sus carreras. Hemos montado más de 150 producciones de artistas cuyo trabajo ha dado forma a nuestra idea de lo que puede ser el teatro. Las producciones de NYTW han recibido un premio Pulitzer, 25 premios Tony, 2 premios Grammy y una variedad de premios Obie, Drama Desk y Lucille Lortel. Visite nuestra página de Internet: www.nytw.org For New York Theatre Workshop / Para New York Theatre Workshop: NYTW STAFF James C. Nicola Artistic Director Jeremy Blocker Managing Director Aaron Malkin Literary Director & Dramaturg Rachel Silverman Artist Workshop Producer Taylor Williams, CSA Casting Director Noor Theatre Company-in-Residence Nissy Aya, Josiah Davis, Adil Mansoor, 2050 Artistic Fellows Ruth Tang, Tyler Thomas, David Zheng Cynthia Mayeda 2050 Fellowship Senior Adviser Victor I. Cazares 2020-2021 Tow Playwright-in-Residence Mfoniso Udofia The Virginia B. Toulmin Foundation’s Women Playwrights Commissioning Program Recipient Evan O’Brient Producing Manager Yang-Yang Chen