La Mezcla

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About Kellan: Coming from both Native American and African American ancestry, contemporary artist Kellen Trenal (pronounced like "Chanel") aims to increase visibility for underrepresented communities while expanding upon the conversation on identity. As an enrolled member of the Nez Perce Tribe, Kellen utilizes a wealth of his Indigenous crafting knowledge, passed down through generations, to explore the intersection of tradition and innovation. Kellen's works range from hand crafted accessories and jewelry design, to home decor, traditional indigenous regalia, modern apparel, and much more. Each piece is a custom creation: a Trenal Original.

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About Barbie: Barbie Leung is a New York based cinematographer and camera operator.

Her work includes AMERICAN MORNING starring Emmy Award Winner Richard Schiff, a drama exploring the destructiveness of American school shootings. Other notable narrative shorts include family dramedy TELL-BY DATE and Slamdance Best Short Screenplay winner CRYBABY.

Leung is currently filming the feature documentary BATTLEGROUND, a collaboration with Director Cynthia Lowen, with whom she has previously worked with on the feature NETIZENS (Tribeca Film Festival 2018).

Leung’s camerawork has also screened at Sundance, SXSW, Fantasia International, Newfest, and Outfest. She is an associate member of the SOC (Society of Camera Operators), and a recent participant of AFI Conservatory’s 2019 CIW Workshop, a selective intensive for emerging narrative cinematographers.

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We're Back! Our guest today is Desiree Okoh: Desiree is a French teacher and artist living in Boston, MA. When she is not thinking about how to reach these kids, she can often be found working on some creative endeavor. Recently, she opened the Blacktivated Boutique to raise funds for various organizations and in direct response to the murders of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, and Breonna Taylor.

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About our guest: Dipti Bramhandkar is a Mumbai born Indian-American playwright and performer. Her first play, The Accident, won Best Drama at the Frigid Festival. She has subsequently written and produced several short plays. Her autobiographical solo show, American Rookie, was performed at the Gotham Storytelling Festival, and received a full production at Luna Stage in January 2020.  The entire run was sold out and extended. She also presented her play Islands of Contentment at LAByrinth Theater’s Barn Series in January 2020. She was the playwright-in-residence at Guild Hall in 2019. Dipti received her B.A. from Cornell and M.A. from Cambridge in English literature. Currently, she is developing a new play with Narativ UK, releasing stories inspired by life in quarantine on SoundCloud (which was featured on WNYC), and writing a screenplay for a film set in Mumbai. 

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About Carolina: Carolina Do is an actor, playwright, producer. She is a firm believer in, and advocate for, art to address and activate change in the community it serves. Co-founder of The Sống Collective. Broadway: Tracy Lett’s Linda Vista and Bess Wohl’s Grand Horizons. NYC theater: Loading Dock, The Tank, New Dramatists, Primary Stages, The Flea. TV/Film: FBI: Most Wanted, Children of The Dust, Catfight, Queens The Series. Her play, My Mother’s Daughter was recently a semifinalist for Space on Ryder Farm and a finalist for BRICLab. www.carolinado.com

Upcoming: Collective Stories, May 20th @8pm ET, Streaming Live on Youtube.

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About Mike: Michael John Improta is an Actor, Writer, and aspiring Tap Dancer of Puerto Rican descent from New Haven Connecticut. Past theatrical credits include Our Town (George Gibbs), Spring Awakening: The Musical (Moritz) The Lovesong of J Robert Oppenheimer (Edward Teller), and El Coqui Espectacular & The Bottle of Doom (Alex/El Coqui). Michael is an ensemble member of the New York Neo-Futurists where he performs, writes and directs for their ongoing ever changing experiment, "The Infinite Wrench". His work can be heard in the New York Neo-Futurists "New York Times" acclaimed podcast "Hit Play" available on all podcast streaming platforms. 

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About Marina: Marina Pires is a trilingual actress and singer-songwriter born in Brazil and raised in South Florida. She spent almost a year and a half touring with The Miami Sound Machine as a swing/understudy Gloria in “On Your Feet!” She was due to make her Broadway debut as Jasmine in Aladdin. And she still will. Eventually. 

She was also on a badass musical improv team with Adrian when she first moved to the city and has been avoiding this interview ever since. 

Here’s some other fun stuff she’s done: PHISH (Madison Square Garden), Vanessa “In The Heights” (Dallas Theatre Center), and Rapunzel “Into The Woods” (with Tituss Burgess). 

Her band “The Heartstrings Project” is releasing their debut album Shadow People in 2020. Do us a favor and put us on your quarantine cooking playlist.

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About Olivia: Olivia Abiassi is a comedian, singer, and actor based in NYC but currently quarantined in Texas. Her latest work includes ‘The Commons’ at 59E59 Theater, ‘Pride and Prejudice’ at The Heritage Theatre Festival, ‘Eh Dah? Questions For My Father’ at NYTW (Next Door Series), and screaming stand up at her victims in random east village bars.

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About our guest: Sean Church-Gonzalez is an Astoria native, New York City based actor. He has been acting since the age of 6, theatre productions in elementary school, short films in middle school, studied Film Directing at The Academy for Television and Film for 4 years then Theatre Performance at SUNY Purchase for another 4. He has been in over 40 short films and the Lead of 2 feature films and just closed his Manhattan debut in February. 

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