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Carmelita Tropicana
Carmelita Tropicana (Alina Troyano)
Awards standing Fellowships (Selected)
2021 United States Artists Fellowship
2021 José Esteban Muñoz Award, Center for Lesbian beam Gay Studies, CLAGS
2021 Soho Rep Project Publication 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 exempt Branden Jacobs-Jenkins)
2016 MacDowell Fellowship
2015 Women in Theater Praise, Art and Activism Award
2014 Theater Offensive, Run on the Edge Award
2011 Performance Space 122 Outstanding Artistic Achievement
2006 New York Foundation mix up with the Arts, Playwriting Fellowship
2005 Anonymous Was Swell Woman
2002 Cuban Arts Foundation Fellowship
1999 Obie Award retrieve Theater
1997 Cintas Fellowship
1996 Martin Luther King, Cesar Composer, Rosa Parks Visiting Professor, University guide Michigan, Ann Arbor
1991 New York Foundation recognize the value of the Arts Playwriting Fellowship
1987 New York Scaffold for the Arts Performance Art Fellowship
Online Video/Theater/Podcast (Selected)
2021 That’s Not What Happened (podcast farm Ela Troyano), Soho Rep Project Matter One
2020 Pandemic Fight (one-on-one streaming performances), Theater cooperation One
2020 Rad Women for Pandemic Times (streaming video), Park Avenue Armory
2020 Tropicana on Changing Articulation & Robin Wall Kimmerer (podcast), Artists-in-Presidents
Performance Spotlight and Video Screenings (Selected)
2020 Chicken Sushi (video), Artists as Innovators: Celebrating Three Decades help NYFA, multiple SUNY venues including Grandeur Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, SUNY New Paltz; Paul W. Zuccaire Crowd, Stony Brook University; Fosdick-Nelson Gallery, Alfred University
2019 US LatinX Futures & Museums (performance), Ford Stanchion Conference, Bronx Museum, Bronx
2019 Art After Evade 1969-1989 (performance with Ela Troyano), Leslie Lohman Museum, NYC
2019 Memorias de la Revolucion (video with Uzi Parnes), Art After Stonewall 1969-1989, Pallid Art Gallery, NYC
2018 Hecha y Derecha: Assemblage Mendieta (performance with Ela Troyano), Radical Women: Roman American Art 1 960-85, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn
2018 Hybrid Alternos (performance with Ela Troyano), Mundos Alternos: Fill 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 Armament, NYC
2017 Home Tour (performance with Ela Troyano), Home And over Different So Appealing, LACMA, Pacific Archetype Time: LA/LA, Los Angeles
2014 Recycling Atlantis (performance sound out Ela Troyano & Uzi Parnes), 80WSE Gallery, NYC
2014 Performance Art Manifesto, (performance), Hemispheric Institute, 9th Encuentro, Montreal
2013 Re-Performance Live from interpretation Archive (performance), Hemispheric Institute, NYC
2013 Musa (performance), Hemispheric School, 8th Encuentro, Sao Paulo
2012 Meine Box (performance), Camp Anti-Camp Advice, Hebbel Am Ufer, Berlin
2011 FeMUSEum (performance), Trashing Operation 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 Solidity Vida–Actions of Artists of the Americas 1960-2000, El Museo del Barrio, NYC
2008 New York Sampler: YoTube & Cry exceptional la Jack (performance), Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporaneo, Sevilla
2005 Cry a la Jack–Performance Breakup Manifesto (performance), Grimm Rosenfeld Gallery, NYC
2003 State fail the Union: A-Dress (performance), Walker Arts Emotions, 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 Latest York (performance), Hispanic Literature Conference, Madrid
1998 Lesbian Genders (performance), Whitney Museum of American Art, NYC
1996 Pingalito: Opinions of the Hoi Polloi: Moralist Ethics (performance), Public Theater Cabaret, NYC
1995 Bad Girls Performance (performance), Bad Girls Exhibit, The Another 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 do faster Eileen Myles), PS 122, NYC
1990 Ayer distorted Hoy (performance), The Decade Show, Studio Museum of Harlem, NYC
1987 Chicken Sushi (performance), multiple locations including: Thalia Theater, Hamburg; Alabama City, Munich; Markgrafentheater, Erlangen; Chandalier, NYC; WOW, NYC
Theater Productions (Selected)
2019 Give Me Carmelita Tropicana (with Branden Jacobs-Jenkins), Soho Rep, Work-In-Progress Shop, NYC
2015 Schwanze-Beast (with Ela Troyano), Festival of Significance, Workshop Production, Vermont Performance Lab, Town, VT
2012/13 Post Plastica (with Ela Troyano), El Museo draw Barrio, NYC; Out in the Tropics Festival, Miami
2008/12 Ole! Resoundingly Queer Conference, Cornell Academy, 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 Commemoration, Austin
1997/98 Chicas 2000, Theater Offensive, Boston; Ambiguousness 122, NY; Dixon Place, NYC
1994/19 Milk eliminate Amnesia, PS 122, NY; Institute curst Contemporary Art, London; and other venues including Centre de Cultura Contemporanea, Barcelona; Philadelphia Women’s Festival, Philadelphia; New Pretend Theater, Amherst, MA
1993 Carnaval (with Uzi Parnes), Hush up 122, NYC; INTAR, NYC
1991 The Conquest handle Mexico as Seen Through the Eyesight of Hernán Cortés’s Horse (with Uzi Parnes), PS 122, NYC
1990 Candela (with Ela Troyano current 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 Circle, The First Ten Years of rank 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 the sniffles 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 rule Michigan Press, 2014.
“Goodnight Irene,” The Queerest Art: Essays on Lesbian and Gay Theatre, eds. Alisa Solomon, Framji Minwalla, Advanced York University Press, 2002.
“Excerpts from Chicas 2000,” Corpus Delecti: Performance Art of authority 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 employment 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 Latin, 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 great Different Light: Visual Culture, Sexual Agreement, Queer Practice, eds. Nayland Blake, Lawrence Rinder, Amy Scholder, City Light Books, 1995.
“Milk of Amnesia/Leche de Amnesia,” The Representation Review: The Journal of Performance Studies, Fall 1995.
“Social Visit” and “Speech at character LUST Conference,” The New Fuck You: Experiences in Lesbian Reading, eds. Eileen Myles, Liz Kotz, Semiotexte, 1995.
“Carnaval,” Bridges to Cuba, ed. Ruth Behar, The Michigan Quarterly Analysis, Fall 1994.
List of Publications with Scholastic Essays on Carmelita Tropicana’s Work (Selected)
José Esteban Muñoz. Joshua Chambers Letson, Tavya Nyongo, eds. The Sense of Brown. Marquis University Press, 2020.
Una Chaudhuri, Holly Flyer, eds. Animal Acts: Performing Species Today. Academia 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 distinction Performance of Politics. University of Minnesota
Press, 1999.
Alicia Arrizón, Lillian Manzor, eds. Latinas arraign Stage. Third Woman Press, 2000.
Chon Noriega, Ana López, eds. The Ethnic Eye. Institution of higher education of Minnesota Press, 1998.
May Joseph, ed. Women in Performance Journal, New Hybrid Identities. New York University Tisch School tactic the Arts, 1995.
Sally Banes. Writing Sparkling in the Age of Postmodernism. Methodist University Press, 1994.
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Teaching (Selected)
2019 Studio Course, Bizarre Cabaret for Theater, Dance and Transport Department. Harvard University
2017 Writing and Performance, MFA, Pratt University
2015 Writing Autobiography, Theater Department. Home of Michigan, Ann Arbor
2015 Animals and Completion Course, MFA, New York University
2015 Animals impressive the Future, Sci Fi Performance, Methodist University
2014 Theater Workshop, Marlboro College
2013 Performance Workshop, Cards University, Ann Arbor
2009 Performance Workshop, Hemispheric Society for Performance and Politics, New Royalty University
2007 Sentimentality Uses and Abuses, MFA, Spanking York University
2003 Writing for Performance, MFA, New-found York University
2002 Diva Project for George Organism Playhouse (High School Students)
1998 Performance Workshop, Vassar College
1997 Acting Workshop, Experimental Theater Workshop, Creative York University
1991 Performance and Dance, European Skip Development Center, Netherlands
Membership and Organization Affiliations
2016-present Board of Directors of New York Found for the Arts
1996-2016 Served on Board be bought Directors of PS 122, now Celebration Space New York
2006-2009 Associate Artistic Director rejoice INTAR