Teatro Popular del Centro, Grad.1991
Lic. Sociologia (B.A Sociology) Marymount Manhattan College, Grad. 2003
Founder/Director, Teatro Las Tablas, 2006
Lic. Sociologia (B.A Sociology) Marymount Manhattan College, Grad. 2003
Founder/Director, Teatro Las Tablas, 2006
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Yolanny Rodriguez holds a .B.A. in Sociology from Marymount Manhattan College. Is a community organizer and the director of Teatro Las Tablas, an organization that aims to develop artists and community through the arts in general and theater in particular. Yolanny directed Eve Ensler's, The Vagina Monologues to raise awareness and funds for a local women’s group for 5 years in Washington Heights. Yolanny studied theater in El Teatro Popular del Centro de la Cultura de Santiago, Republica Dominicana In New York , has studied Theater of the Oppressed at the Brecht Forum and Performance Authology with Josefina Baez from which “Mierquina”, a monologue based on Yolanny’s text, has emerged. Yolanny is a member of the Theater Session of The Dominican Comission of Culture based in New York. In May, 2010, Yolanny performed the lead character of La Fiesta a piece by Johnny Franco. She was producer and the assistant director of En el Ante Aca, a play by Melida Garcia, directed by Antonio A. Mendez, which toured Dominican Republic in October, 2010 and the NY-NJ festivals of the same year. She directed La Esposa y el Maniqui, a comedy by Paula Crequet which opened July 2010 during IATI’s Art Marathon and Ventana Negra, a drama based a narrative by Diogenes Abreu's. In 2009 Mi Mujer es el Plomero awarded her a nomination to the ACE Award as Best comedic director. "I trust and believe there is enough, that hard work will improve us and pay us back, that solidarity is esential for the word to funtion and that beuty and love inhabit all of us" I want to contribute to respect processes even when they are foreign to me. I must go to bed, with nothing to regret.." |
Awards
Community Excellence Award, 2014 by Dominican Women Development Center for outstanding service to the community through the arts. Visionary Award, 2013 by Mayor Michael Bloomberg, City of New York Citywide example for implementing and innovating art for non artist in the community Nominations Best monologue (includes direction) 2014 "Margarita, Ruben y Juan" by Eduardo Leañez Festival Monologando Ando, NY Best Direction 2013 "El Plagio" by Julio Hernan Correal Triana Teatro Las Tablas 4th Festival Hispano del Comisionado, NY Best Actress, "Penelope" by Jorge Davila Vazquez Vanguardia USA, ATI Awards, NY Best Solo Performance "Penelope" by Jorge Davila Vazquez Vanguardia USA, ACE Awards, NY |