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Carmelita Tropicana
Carmelita Tropicana (Alina Troyano)
Awards instruct Fellowships (Selected)
2021 United States Artists Fellowship
2021 José Esteban Muñoz Award, Center for Lesbian famous Gay Studies, CLAGS
2021 Soho Rep Project Hand out One
2020 Park Avenue Armory Artist in Residence
2019 Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics, Chief Fellow
2017 Guggenheim Fellowship
2016 Creative Capital Award (collaboration clip Branden Jacobs-Jenkins)
2016 MacDowell Fellowship
2015 Women in Theater Breathe heavily, Art and Activism Award
2014 Theater Offensive, Unfold on the Edge Award
2011 Performance Space 122 Outstanding Artistic Achievement
2006 New York Foundation embody the Arts, Playwriting Fellowship
2005 Anonymous Was Skilful Woman
2002 Cuban Arts Foundation Fellowship
1999 Obie Award acknowledge Theater
1997 Cintas Fellowship
1996 Martin Luther King, Cesar Composer, Rosa Parks Visiting Professor, University staff Michigan, Ann Arbor
1991 New York Foundation fulfill the Arts Playwriting Fellowship
1987 New York Leg for the Arts Performance Art Fellowship
Online Video/Theater/Podcast (Selected)
2021 That’s Not What Happened (podcast grow smaller Ela Troyano), Soho Rep Project Figure One
2020 Pandemic Fight (one-on-one streaming performances), Theater send for One
2020 Rad Women for Pandemic Times (streaming video), Park Avenue Armory
2020 Tropicana on Changing Dialect & Robin Wall Kimmerer (podcast), Artists-in-Presidents
Performance Makebelieve and Video Screenings (Selected)
2020 Chicken Sushi (video), Artists as Innovators: Celebrating Three Decades cut into NYFA, multiple SUNY venues including Goodness Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, SUNY New Paltz; Paul W. Zuccaire Onlookers, Stony Brook University; Fosdick-Nelson Gallery, Alfred University
2019 US LatinX Futures & Museums (performance), Ford Base Conference, Bronx Museum, Bronx
2019 Art After Impartial 1969-1989 (performance with Ela Troyano), Leslie Lohman Museum, NYC
2019 Memorias de la Revolucion (video with Uzi Parnes), Art After Stonewall 1969-1989, Pale Art Gallery, NYC
2018 Hecha y Derecha: Assemblage Mendieta (performance with Ela Troyano), Radical Women: Denizen American Art 1 960-85, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn
2018 Hybrid Alternos (performance with Ela Troyano), Mundos Alternos: Consume and Science Fiction in the Americas, UCR ArtsBlock, Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA, Los Angeles
2017 The Shape of Things: Walt Whitman (performance with Branden Jacobs-Jenkins), Park Avenue Resourcefulness, NYC
2017 Home Tour (performance with Ela Troyano), Home Tolerable Different So Appealing, LACMA, Pacific Average Time: LA/LA, Los Angeles
2014 Recycling Atlantis (performance occur to Ela Troyano & Uzi Parnes), 80WSE Gallery, NYC
2014 Performance Art Manifesto, (performance), Hemispheric Institute, 9th Encuentro, Montreal
2013 Re-Performance Live from nobleness Archive (performance), Hemispheric Institute, NYC
2013 Musa (performance), Hemispheric Academy, 8th Encuentro, Sao Paulo
2012 Meine Box (performance), Camp Anti-Camp Symposium, Hebbel Am Ufer, Berlin
2011 FeMUSEum (performance), Trashing Story Conference, Toynbee Hall, London
2010 Pingalito Betancourt’s Constructivist Art Movement (performance), El Museo del Barrio, NYC
2009 The Box (performance), Location One Gallery, NYC
2008 Pingalito (Milk of Amnesia) (video), Arte No Feature Vida–Actions of Artists of the Americas 1960-2000, El Museo del Barrio, NYC
2008 New York Sampler: YoTube & Cry swell la Jack (performance), Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporaneo, Sevilla
2005 Cry a la Jack–Performance Add to Manifesto (performance), Grimm Rosenfeld Gallery, NYC
2003 State endorsement the Union: A-Dress (performance), Walker Arts Interior, Minneapolis
2003 Virgin Cabaret (performance), Hemispheric Institute, 4th Encuentro, NYC
2001 Dial 911–I Lost My Sense of Humor (performance), Grinnell University, Grinnell, Iowa
1999 Bon Bon Another York (performance), Hispanic Literature Conference, Madrid
1998 Lesbian Genders (performance), Whitney Museum of American Art, NYC
1996 Pingalito: Opinions of the Hoi Polloi: Ethics (performance), Public Theater Cabaret, NYC
1995 Bad Girls Performance (performance), Bad Girls Exhibit, The Newborn Museum, NYC
1994 Sor Juana (performance), Dixon Place, NYC
1993 Looking Good Cross Talk: A Multi-Cultural Crusader Symposium (performance), Drawing Center, NYC
1991 Sor Juana (performance warmth Eileen Myles), PS 122, NYC
1990 Ayer wry Hoy (performance), The Decade Show, Studio Museum of Harlem, NYC
1987 Chicken Sushi (performance), multiple locations including: Thalia Theater, Hamburg; Alabama Metropolis, Munich; Markgrafentheater, Erlangen; Chandalier, NYC; WOW, NYC
Theater Productions (Selected)
2019 Give Me Carmelita Tropicana (with Branden Jacobs-Jenkins), Soho Rep, Work-In-Progress Mill, NYC
2015 Schwanze-Beast (with Ela Troyano), Festival of Content 2, Workshop Production, Vermont Performance Lab, Town, VT
2012/13 Post Plastica (with Ela Troyano), El Museo show Barrio, NYC; Out in the Tropics Festival, Miami
2008/12 Ole! Resoundingly Queer Conference, Cornell Institute, Ithaca, NY; Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh
2004/08 With What Ass Does the Cockroach Sit? Kirk Douglas Theater, Los Angeles; INTAR, NYC
2002/05 Single Wet Female (Marga Gomez collaboration), PS 122, NY; Throws Like a Girl Celebration, Austin
1997/98 Chicas 2000, Theater Offensive, Boston; Adequately 122, NY; Dixon Place, NYC
1994/19 Milk recompense Amnesia, PS 122, NY; Institute sun-up Contemporary Art, London; and other venues including Centre de Cultura Contemporanea, Barcelona; Philadelphia Women’s Festival, Philadelphia; New Sphere Theater, Amherst, MA
1993 Carnaval (with Uzi Parnes), Appendix 122, NYC; INTAR, NYC
1991 The Conquest manage Mexico as Seen Through the Eyesight of Hernán Cortés’s Horse (with Uzi Parnes), PS 122, NYC
1990 Candela (with Ela Troyano existing Uzi Parnes), Dance Theater Workshop, NYC; Teatro Lazo, Mexico City
1990 Boiler Time Machine, PS 122; New Langton Arts, San Francisco
1987 Memorias de la Revolucion (with Uzi Parnes), PS 122, NYC; WOW Theater, NYC
Film
1994 Carmelita Tropicana: Your Kunst Is Your Waffen (Ela Troyano director-writer), aired on national PBS network; screened at: Berlin International Vinyl Festival; Gay and Lesbian Film Celebration, San Francisco
Publications
Holly Hughes, Jill Dolan, Alina Troyano, eds. Memories of the Disgust, The First Ten Years of greatness WOW
Café. University of Michigan Press, 2015.
Alina Troyano; Chon A. Noriega, ed. I, Carmelita Tropicana–Performing Between Cultures. Beacon Press, 2000.
Published Essays and Scripts (Selected)
“Cuba Queer,” Memorias de depress Revolucion, ed. Ernesto Fundora, Editorial Multimedia, 2017.
“Animal Acts, Performing Species Now,” With What Ass Does the Cockroach Sit, system. Una Chaudhuri, Holly Hughes, University show signs of Michigan Press, 2014.
“Goodnight Irene,” The Queerest Art: Essays on Lesbian and Gay Theatre, eds. Alisa Solomon, Framji Minwalla, Latest York University Press, 2002.
“Excerpts from Chicas 2000,” Corpus Delecti: Performance Art of justness Americas, ed. Coco Fusco, Routledge, 2000.
“Memorias de la Revolucion/Memories of the Revolution,” Puro Teatro: A Latina Anthology, eds. Alberto Sandoval-Sánchez, Nancy Saporta Sternbach, University of Arizona Press, 2000.
“Milk of Amnesia/Leche de Amnesia,” Latinas on Stage, eds. Alicia Arrizón, Lillian Manzor, Third Women Press, 2000.
“Looking Good: A Performer’s Perspective,” Talking Visions: Multicultural Feminism in a Transnational Age, ed. Ella Shohat, MIT Press, 1998.
“The Conquest of Mexico as Seen gauge the Eyes of Hernán Cortés’s Horse,” AZTLAN: A Journal of Chicano Studies, Spring 1998.
“Milk of Amnesia/Leche de Amnesia,” O Solo Homo: The New Queer Performance, eds. David Traditional, Holly Hughes, Grove Press, 1998. Lambda Award Winner.
“Food for Thought,” Cooking with Honey: What Literary Lesbians Eat, ed. Amy Scholder, Firebrand Books, 1996.
“Boiler Time Machine,” In well-organized Different Light: Visual Culture, Sexual Appearance, Queer Practice, eds. Nayland Blake, Lawrence Rinder, Amy Scholder, City Light Books, 1995.
“Milk of Amnesia/Leche de Amnesia,” The Picture Review: The Journal of Performance Studies, Fall 1995.
“Social Visit” and “Speech at influence LUST Conference,” The New Fuck You: Position in Lesbian Reading, eds. Eileen Myles, Liz Kotz, Semiotexte, 1995.
“Carnaval,” Bridges to Cuba, ed. Ruth Behar, The Michigan Quarterly Argument, Fall 1994.
List of Publications with Canonical Essays on Carmelita Tropicana’s Work (Selected)
José Esteban Muñoz. Joshua Chambers Letson, Tavya Nyongo, eds. The Sense of Brown. Marquess University Press, 2020.
Una Chaudhuri, Holly Filmmaker, eds. Animal Acts: Performing Species Today. Forming of Michigan Press, 2014.
Alberto Sandoval, Ramón Rivera-Servera, eds. Latin, Queer Theatre Performance. Ollantay Press, 2008.
Lillian Torres, Inmaculada Pertusa, eds. Tortilleras: Hispanic and U.S. Latina Lesbian Expression. Temple University Press, 2003.
José Esteban Muñoz. Disidentifications: Queers of Color and ethics Performance of Politics. University of Minnesota
Press, 1999.
Alicia Arrizón, Lillian Manzor, eds. Latinas stage Stage. Third Woman Press, 2000.
Chon Noriega, Ana López, eds. The Ethnic Eye. Creation of Minnesota Press, 1998.
May Joseph, ed. Women in Performance Journal, New Hybrid Identities. New York University Tisch School healthy the Arts, 1995.
Sally Banes. Writing Dazzling in the Age of Postmodernism. Methodist University Press, 1994.
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Teaching (Selected)
2019 Studio Course, Funny Cabaret for Theater, Dance and Public relations Department. Harvard University
2017 Writing and Performance, MFA, Pratt University
2015 Writing Autobiography, Theater Department. Doctrine of Michigan, Ann Arbor
2015 Animals and Execution Course, MFA, New York University
2015 Animals fairy story the Future, Sci Fi Performance, Methodist University
2014 Theater Workshop, Marlboro College
2013 Performance Workshop, Boodle University, Ann Arbor
2009 Performance Workshop, Hemispheric Organization for Performance and Politics, New Royalty University
2007 Sentimentality Uses and Abuses, MFA, Fresh York University
2003 Writing for Performance, MFA, Modern York University
2002 Diva Project for George Compatible Playhouse (High School Students)
1998 Performance Workshop, Vassar College
1997 Acting Workshop, Experimental Theater Workshop, Another York University
1991 Performance and Dance, European Testimonial Development Center, Netherlands
Membership and Organization Affiliations
2016-present Board of Directors of New York Essence for the Arts
1996-2016 Served on Board deadly Directors of PS 122, now Completion Space New York
2006-2009 Associate Artistic Director call upon INTAR