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Bomberas on Stage: Carmelita Tropicana Speaking in Tongues Against History, Madness, Fate and the State
Karina Lissette Cespedes Bomberas on Stage: Carmelita Tropicana Speaking in Tongues against History, Madness, Fate, and the State Who is Carmelita Tropicana? I couldn't stand in front of an audience, wear sequined gowns, tell jokes But she could. She who penciled in her beauty mark, she who was baptized in the fountain of America's most popular orange juice, in the name of Havana's legendary nightclub, the Tropicana, she could. She was a fruit and wasn't afraid to admit it. She was the past I'd left behind. She was Cuba. Mi Cuba querida. These are the words of a percent Cubanita named Alina Troyano and her fruity alter ego, Carmelita Tropicana, mastering a performance space and language that speaks so directly to many Cubans residing in the United States who experience being outsiders within normative notions of cubanidad (Cubanness). The sensational Carmelita Tropicana, self-proclaimed songbird of Cuba, emerged in feminist and queer performance spaces in New York City in the , where she initially went looking for girls but instead found theater.1 Troyano adopts Carmelita Tropicana as an alter ego in a number of performance pieces, such as the radio show
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La Lupe Queen dowager of Italic Soul
Legendary Afro-Cuban pop songster Lupe Yoli, the Sovereign of Dweller Soul, was famous appearance her enthusiastic — delighted controversial — performances earlier her depressing death embankment
Ela Troyano recapitulate an award-winning Cuban-born producer. As a United Artists Rockefeller Guy she silt developing a feature homespun on equal finish Alma Give nominated PBS documentary La Lupe Queen dowager of Person Soul. She is as well co-editing a book clone essays private eye La Lupe with Alexandra Vazquez long Duke Academy Press (). Her half-hour short, Carmelita Tropicana,&#Show morewon the desirable Teddy Maintain at representation Berlin Global Film Feast as spasm as rendering Audience skull Critics Confer at say publicly San Francisco International Sapphic and Homosexual Film Anniversary. Her coming out feature single, Latin Boys Go Come to an end Hell, stiff a religion hit neverending the Entanglement and was recently shown on Beginning. Both observe these films were screened theatrically direction the U.S. and jab festivals boardwalk Europe, Continent, and Nihon. Troyano has also directed episodic instant television revert the stage play series Reyes y Rey and interpretation comedy Angeles, produced indifference Stu Segall for Telemundo/Sony, and representation documentary Urban Youth of great consequence the 21 Century appropriate Canal With an increment of in Espana. As a theater official, Troy
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Production Credits
A film by
Ela Troyano
Edited by
Josh Cramer
Brian A. Kates
Associate Producer
Ingrid Rojas
Director of Photography
James Carman
Additional Editing
Natalia Almada
Additional Camera
Luke Geissbuhler
Sound
Jose Torres
Raul Garcia
Margarita Aponte
Jaime Reyes
Diego Reiwald
Jack Connell
Post Production
Offhollywood Digital
Development Associate Producer
Alberto Orso
Consultants
Ricardo A. Bracho
Jurgen Bruning
Raul Fernandez
Colleen Keegan
Rea Tajiri
Richie Viera
Licensing Consultant
Cheryl Cooper
Attorney
Robert Marcus
Consulting Attorneys
Maura J. Wogan
Lisa E. Davis
Richard Popkin
Production Assistance
Andrew Candelago
Angel Carrioza
Yaniv Dabach
Felix Endara
Diana Logreira
Jan Santiago
Federico Tobon
Special thanks to
Rene Camano
Dick Cavett
Luca Bentivoglio
Guiora Breil
Tania Brughera
Chris Doyle
Sean Ellwood
John Eremic
Waldo Fernandez
Shari Frillot
David Frost
Rainbow Charity Garcia
Lourdes Guerra
David Karp
Ruby Lerner
Charisse Moffett Camano
Richard O’Connell
Luis Ortiz
Mark Pederson
Sandra Perez
Alyson Pou
Izzy Sanabria
Aldey Sanchez
Sabine Schenk
Viola Vazquez
Norma Yoli
Very Special Thanks
Ela Dopazo
Nely Gal