Alba Delia Hernández. Image courtesy the artist.
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Co-Presented with The Bushwick Starr
Since 2010, The Bushwick Starr’s annual Starr Reading Series has cultivated a diverse group of writers at all stages of their careers, who approach writing for the theater in thrilling and unexpected ways. Selected through an invited submission process by a rotating committee of curators, currently Jehan O. Young, Elizagrace Madrone, and William Burke, 4-8 playwrights are selected each year, and receive developmental support for a public staged reading of a new, usually unfinished, work. With The Bushwick Starr’s new permanent home currently under renovation, the 2023 Starr Reading Series will take place at, and is co-presented by, CPR – Center for Performance Research. Now in its second year, this collaboration unites the process-oriented missions of both organizations, and celebrates the incubation of new, experimental work in performance. The Starr Reading Series has previously supported new plays by writers including Whitney White, Clare Barron, Phillip Howze, Jackie Sibblies Drury, Haruna Lee, and many more.
Alba Delia Hernández: I've Been Giving Puerto Rican History Lessons for Free
I've Been Giving Puerto Rican History Lessons for Free is a story of Lion, a Puerto Rican handball player from Bushwick, molded by Black and Puerto Rican revolutionaries, who turns to hip hop, salsa and bomba dance to defend her turf from the gentrification that is tearing her community apart.
Alba Delia Hernández is an award winning writer, inspired by Puerto Rico, growing up in Bushwick, and salsa, who dances in the hybrid forms of fiction, playwriting and poetry. She was awarded the winner of the 2022 One Festival for her one woman show, Juana Peña Revisited. She is a recipient of the Bronx Council of the Arts First Chapter Award and earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Columbia University. She has been published widely including in A Gathering of the Tribes Magazine and in Harvard’s Latinx Publication: PALABRITAS. She has performed at El Museo del Barrio, The Whitney Museum, Nuyorican Poets Café, Teatro Circulo, En Garde Arts, and La Respuesta in Puerto Rico. She’s a passionate yoga teacher, salsa dancer, and videographer who recites speeches by Puerto Rican revolutionaries or moves to songs of resistance. She teaches creative writing to NYC public school students with Teachers & Writers Collaborative.
Additional Starr Reading Series programs:
Mon, March 27 at 7:30 P.M.
Marissa Joyce Stamps: Letiche and The [Wondrous] Pursuit of Elvis
Weds, March 29 at 7:30 P.M.
Divya Mangwani: The Nation Needs to Know
Mon, April 3 at 7:30 P.M.
Daniella De Jesús: GOOEY’S TOXIC AQUATIC ADVENTURE at Wasteland!™ (presented by amazon)
Tues, April 4 at 7:30 P.M.
Maya Lawson: For Du
Weds, April 5 at 7:30 P.M.
Jesús I. Valles: untitled table play
The Bushwick Starr is grateful to partner with CPR in co-presenting and hosting the annual Starr Reading Series as they build their new permanent home in Bushwick! The grand opening of The Bushwick Starr’s new venue will take place in about a year, but you can be a part of the celebration today! Please consider joining the Starr Giving Galaxy, a community of donors, friends, and audiences making an ongoing commitment to the Starr's future. Your support will help our artists create groundbreaking new performances, and establish a lasting home for the arts and culture in North Brooklyn for all to enjoy.