La Mezcla

COME TO THE LA MEZCLA LIVE VARIETY SHOW ON SEPTEMBER 23 AT 7PM!

Tickets: https://www.caveat.nyc/event/la-mezcla-a-mixed-race-and-first-generation-variety-show--9-23-2019

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Dillon and Adrian talk growing up mixed Dutch/Puerto Rican/Colombian, pursuing comedy in NYC, what "dudepigging" is, and much more! This one went of the rails, folks. Hope you enjoy it.

Dillon Geyselaers is an actor and comedian based in Brooklyn, New York.

Dillon has appeared in over a dozen commercials— most recently for the ESPN+ app and a Super Bowl ad for Quicken Loans, both opposite Keegan-Michael Key. Roles in TV & film include the Emmy & Golden Globe award-winning series The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (Amazon), Primos, LLC (Más Mejor, NYTVF), Help Yourself (NYTVF), Boys (VICE), Aphasia (Tribeca), and Piranha Sharks (Cannes).

Dillon has also produced and directed several short films and debuted his original standup show Check Please! at SOLOCOM 2015. Dillon has studied and performed improv and sketch comedy at UCB, The Magnet and The PIT in NYC and is a graduate of Manhattanville College. He attended Wooster School in Danbury, Connecticut.

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Support Arti's Kickstarter!!

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/boysivekissedhated/boys-ive-kissed-and-hated

Arti Gollapudi is a Brooklyn based comedic performance artist who received her masters in Performance Studies at NYU. She curates & hosts Yourself, Your Body at Union Hall and Comedy CUNT at Bluestockings Bookstore. You can also see her perform as Janine the One Eyed Bitch in Handmaid's Tale: The Musical! She is also a very dumb poet who recently self printed her latest batch of poetry titled ‘emotional slut’ - you can read her comedic poetry @ArtiFartyPoems & purchase her printed booklets here.

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Alex Riad is a New York based writer originally from The San Francisco Bay Area. He's the Literary Fellow at The Farm Theater, member of The Actor's Studio Playwright Unit, and recently joined the Lila Acheson Wallace American Playwrights Program at Juilliard. Theatre Credits: THE FLOOR IS LAVA (LaMama Experimental Theatre, 2017 Planet Connections Festival Best Play), IF YOU EVER COME BY HERE (The Tank), WHEN YOU GO (The Tank), STANDBYS (Thespis Festival), and WHERE SHE HANGS (Rondo Theatre). Film Credits: SCENES FROM THE UNDERGROUND (Feature Film, expected 2020). TV Credits: Co-Creator and Showrunner for the web series WHAT AM I DOING HERE? Streaming Online July 2019. Check out his next play, THE WILD PARROTS OF CAMPBELL presented by Now Collective at Cherry Lane in December 2019. www.alexriad.com

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This week Adrian sits down with comedian Bill Schaeffer!

Bill Schaefer is a comedian born and raised in Queens, New York. After a brief stint as an amateur kickboxer, Bill started doing stand up and improv. What a pivot! You can catch him at the stand up shows he cohosts and produces, Friend Zone at Pine Box Rock Shop or Quality Time at Velvet Lounge. Bill is also a member of UCB house team Hotcake and a proud member of the Story Pirates. This poor guy also roots for the Mets, Jets and Knicks so...yeah. Take it easy on him. 

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For tickets to the premiere of Vishaal's show Insomnia follow this link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/insomnia-series-premiere-tickets-61206763076

Vishaal Reddy is an actor, writer, and producer from Tennessee and based in NYC. He received his undergraduate degree at Boston University where he dabbled in Business Administration and the Theatre Arts. He was recently selected as one of 2019 Tribeca Film Festival Creator N.O.W. creators. Upon moving to NYC, he booked numerous Off-Broadway plays and musicals, while also delving into the television world. His recent credits include The Punisher, Bull, and Big Dogs . Feeling frustrated with the industry's portrayal of Indian characters, he started writing and producing his own screenplays and sketches. His ultimate goal is to continue performing but also use his voice as a platform to launch a production company, focusing on the stories of the South Asian American and people in the LGBTQ community.

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Karen Sepulveda returns to the show! Our first ever returning guest. She's here to promote her show BODEGAVERSE!

In this show, written by Karen Sepulveda and Mamoudou N'Diaye, two bodega clerks realize their boss’ beloved bodega cat, Carter, has gone missing on the worst day ever. This five episode series takes place over the course of a day, following the pair as they track down Carter before their boss finds out while trying to keep the bodega in one piece. Everyone in the neighborhood, from hoteps to hoodrats, come together to celebrate what they believe is the end of Carter as we know him.

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With over a decade on the NYC scene, Chicano comedian Gabe Pacheco has appeared at Caroline’s, The Creek & The Cave, and the Knitting Factory. He’s featured at the Asheville Comedy Festival. Accidental Comedy Festival, The Oak City Festival, and the Cape Fear Comedy Festival. His voice is on John Fuglesang’s Tell Me Everything, on Sirius XM, the “Katie Halper Show” and the “Eat Pray Judge Podcast”. He’s a member of the Story Pirates community. His Album “Risky Behavior” was released March 2019 on 800 Pound Gorilla Records.

Download his new album at https://800PGR.lnk.to/GabeEM

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Kyoung and Adrian talk growing up in Chile with a Korean family, building an artistic career with skeptical immigrant parents, moving to the US, and the struggle of not fitting neatly into one box. 

KYOUNG H. PARK was born in Santiago, Chile and is author of DISORIENTED, TALA, PILLOWTALK and many short plays including MINA, which is published in "Seven Contemporary Plays from the Korean Diaspora in the Americas" by Duke University Press. Kyoung writes and directs his own work as Artistic Director of Kyoung’s Pacific Beat, a peacemaking theater company, based in Brooklyn, New York.

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Ran Xia is an interdisciplinary theatre artist originally from Shanghai, China. Her works have been at IRT (Pomegrenade, Arctic'sFridge Fest), HERE (Harmony), Dixon Place*, The Brick ([ai], an adaptation of Ayn Rand's Anthem), The Wild Project, The Tank (Echo; Tao at Dark Fest 2018, Independent Study by Ben Gassman). A frequent collaborator of Exquisite Corpse Co.** (audio/visual installation Echo at the Memory House, on Governors Island), a current Resident Director at The Flea, and a resident artist at Access Theater. Assistant Directing credits include: Baby Fat: Act I (A Screeching Weasel punk rock opera, Dir. Michael Scholar, Jr. with Columbia Stages and LA MAMA), The Great Leap (by Lauren Yee, Dir. Taibi Magar at the Atlantic Theater), and Refrigerated Dreams by Carrie Mae Weems, Nona Hendryx, Francesca Harper, and Niegel Smith at Joe's Pub. 

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