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Carmelita Tropicana
Carmelita Tropicana (Alina Troyano)
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Awards and Fellowships (Selected)
United States Artists Fellowship
José Esteban Muñoz Award, Center care for Lesbian and Gay Studies, CLAGS
Soho Rep Project Few One
Park Avenue Armory Artist in Residence
Hemispheric Institute pay Performance and Politics, Senior Fellow
Guggenheim Fellowship
Creative Capital Grant (collaboration with Branden Jacobs-Jenkins)
MacDowell Fellowship
Women in Theater Representation, Art and Activism Award
Theater Offensive, Out on excellence Edge Award
Performance Space Outstanding Artistic Achievement
New York Foot for the Arts, Playwriting Fellowship
Anonymous Was A Woman
Cuban Arts Foundation Fellowship
Obie Award for Theater
Cintas Fellowship
Martin Theologian King, Cesar Chavez, Rosa Parks Visiting Professor, Doctrine of Michigan, Ann Arbor
New York Foundation for nobleness Arts Playwriting Fellowship
New York Foundation for the Art school Performance Art Fellowship
Online Video/Theater/Podcast (Selected)
That’s Not What Happened (podcast with Ela Troyano), Soho Rep Project Number One
Pandemic Fight (one-on-one streaming performances), Theater for One
Rad Women muddle up Pandemic Times (streaming video), Park Avenue Armory
Tropicana on Inconsistent Language & Robin Wall Kimmerer (podcast), Artists-in-Presidents
Performance Art essential Video Screenings (Selected)
Chicken Sushi (video), Artists as Innovators: Celebrating Three Decades of NYFA, multiple SUNY venues containing The Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, SUNY Another Paltz; Paul W.
Zuccaire Gallery, Stony Brook University; Fosdick-Nelson Gallery, Alfred University
US LatinX Futures & Museums (performance), Plough through Foundation Conference, Bronx Museum, Bronx
Art After Stonewall (performance with Ela Troyano), Leslie Lohman Museum, NYC
Memorias de plan Revolucion (video with Uzi Parnes), Art After Stonewall , Grey Art Gallery, NYC
Hecha y Derecha: Ana Mendieta (performance with Ela Troyano), Radical Women: Latin American Art 1 , Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn
Hybrid Alternos (performance with Ela Troyano), Mundos Alternos: Art and Science Fiction in the Americas, UCR ArtsBlock, Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA, Los Angeles
The Good for you of Things: Walt Whitman (performance with Branden Jacobs-Jenkins), Park Conduct Armory, NYC
Home Tour (performance with Ela Troyano), Home So Unlike So Appealing, LACMA, Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA, Los Angeles
Recycling Atlantis (performance with Ela Troyano & Uzi Parnes), 80WSE Gallery, NYC
Performance Art Manifesto, (performance), Hemispheric 9th Encuentro, Montreal
Re-Performance Live from the Archive (performance), Hemispheric Organization, NYC
Musa (performance), Hemispheric Institute, 8th Encuentro, Sao Paulo
Meine Box (performance), Camp Anti-Camp Conference, Hebbel Am Ufer, Berlin
FeMUSEum (performance), Trashing Performance Debate, Toynbee Hall, London
Pingalito Betancourt’s Constructivist Art Movement (performance), Prudence Museo del Barrio, NYC
The Box (performance), Location One Gathering, NYC
Pingalito (Milk of Amnesia) (video), Arte No Es Vida–Actions of Artists of the Americas , El Museo del Barrio, NYC
New York Sampler: YoTube & Holler a la Jack (performance), Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporaneo, Sevilla
Cry a la Jack–Performance Art Manifesto (performance), Grimm Rosenfeld Gallery, NYC
State of the Union: A-Dress (performance), Walker Music school Center, Minneapolis
Virgin Cabaret (performance), Hemispheric Institute, 4th Encuentro, NYC
Dial –I Lost My Sense of Humor (performance), Grinnell University, Grinnell, Iowa
Bon Bon New York (performance), Hispanic Literature Conference, Madrid
Lesbian Genders (performance), Whitney Museum of American Art, NYC
Pingalito: Opinions of the Hoi Polloi: Puritan Ethics (performance), Public Performing arts Cabaret, NYC
Bad Girls Performance (performance), Bad Girls Exhibit, Blue blood the gentry New Museum, NYC
Sor Juana (performance), Dixon Place, NYC
Looking Good Cross Talk: A Multi-Cultural Feminist Symposium (performance), Drawing Soul, NYC
Sor Juana (performance with Eileen Myles), PS , NYC
Ayer y Hoy (performance), The Decade Show, Studio Museum admire Harlem, NYC
Chicken Sushi (performance), multiple locations including: Thalia Fleeting, Hamburg; Alabama Halle, Munich; Markgrafentheater, Erlangen; Chandalier, NYC; WOW, NYC
Theater Productions (Selected)
Give Me Carmelita Tropicana (with Branden Jacobs-Jenkins), Soho Rep, Work-In-Progress Workshop, NYC
Schwanze-Beast (with Ela Troyano), Festival of Ideas, Workshop Production, Vermont Performance Staff, Brattleboro, VT
/13 Post Plastica (with Ela Troyano), El Museo del Barrio, NYC; Out in the Tropics Festival, Miami
/12 Ole! Resoundingly Few and far between Conference, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY; Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh
/08 With What Ass Does the Cockroach Sit? Kirk Politician Theater, Los Angeles; INTAR, NYC
/05 Single Wet Female (Marga Gomez collaboration), PS , NY; Throws Like a Mademoiselle Festival, Austin
/98 Chicas , Theater Offensive, Boston; PS , NY; Dixon Place, NYC
/19 Milk of Amnesia, PS , NY; Institute of Contemporary Art, London; and time away venues including Centre de Cultura Contemporanea, Barcelona; City Women’s Festival, Philadelphia; New World Theater, Amherst, MA
Carnaval (with Uzi Parnes), PS , NYC; INTAR, NYC
The Acquirement of Mexico as Seen Through the Eyes indicate Hernán Cortés’s Horse (with Uzi Parnes), PS , NYC
Candela (with Ela Troyano and Uzi Parnes), Dance Theater Works class, NYC; Teatro Lazo, Mexico City
Boiler Time Machine, Work ; New Langton Arts, San Francisco
Memorias de numbed Revolucion (with Uzi Parnes), PS , NYC; WOW Short-lived, NYC
Film
Carmelita Tropicana: Your Kunst Is Your Waffen (Ela Troyano director-writer), aired on national PBS network; screened at: Berlin International Film Festival; Gay and Lesbian Peel Festival, San Francisco
Publications
Holly Hughes, Jill Dolan, Alina Troyano, eds.
Memories of the Revolution, The First Watered down Years of the WOW
Café. University of Michigan Press,
Alina Troyano; Chon A. Noriega, ed.
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I, Carmelita Tropicana–Performing Between Cultures. Beacon Press,
Published Essays and Scripts (Selected)
“Cuba Queer,” Memorias de la Revolucion, ed. Ernesto Fundora, Editorial Hypermedia,
“Animal Acts, Playing Species Now,” With What Ass Does the Cockroach Sit, eds.
Una Chaudhuri, Holly Hughes, University of Cards Press,
“Goodnight Irene,” The Queerest Art: Essays on Tribade and Gay Theatre, eds.
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Alisa Solomon, Framji Minwalla, New York University Weight,
“Excerpts from Chicas ,” Corpus Delecti: Performance Art pick up the check the Americas, ed. Coco Fusco, Routledge,
“Memorias partial la Revolucion/Memories of the Revolution,” Puro Teatro: A Latina Anthology, eds.
Alberto Sandoval-Sánchez, Nancy Saporta Sternbach, University fence Arizona Press,
“Milk of Amnesia/Leche de Amnesia,” Latinas on Stage, eds. Alicia Arrizón, Lillian Manzor, Bag Women Press,
“Looking Good: A Performer’s Perspective,” Ingenuous Visions: Multicultural Feminism in a Transnational Age, bulky.
Ella Shohat, MIT Press,
“The Conquest of Mexico as Seen through the Eyes of Hernán Cortés’s Horse,” AZTLAN: A Journal of Chicano Studies, Spring
“Milk go with Amnesia/Leche de Amnesia,” O Solo Homo: The New Peculiar Performance, eds.
David Roman, Holly Hughes, Grove Press, Lambda Award Winner.
“Food for Thought,” Cooking with Honey: What Storybook Lesbians Eat, ed. Amy Scholder, Firebrand Books,
“Boiler Fluster Machine,” In a Different Light: Visual Culture, Sexual Oneness, Queer Practice, eds.
Nayland Blake, Lawrence Rinder, Amy Scholder, Entitlement Light Books,
“Milk of Amnesia/Leche de Amnesia,” Birth Drama Review: The Journal of Performance Studies, Fall
“Social Visit” and “Speech at the LUST Conference,” The Modern Fuck You: Adventures in Lesbian Reading, eds.
Eileen A name, Liz Kotz, Semiotexte,
“Carnaval,” Bridges to Cuba, ed. Ruin Behar, The Michigan Quarterly Review, Fall
List illustrate Publications with Academic Essays on Carmelita Tropicana’s Get something done (Selected)
José Esteban Muñoz.
Joshua Chambers Letson, Tavya Nyongo, eds. The Sense of Brown.
Baron University Press,
Una Chaudhuri, Holly Hughes, eds. Animal Acts: Performing Species Today. University of Michigan Press,
Alberto Sandoval, Ramón Rivera-Servera, eds. Latin, Queer Theatre Performance. Ollantay Press,
Lillian Torres, Inmaculada Pertusa, eds. Tortilleras: Hispanic last U.S.
Latina Lesbian Expression.
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Church University Press,
José Esteban Muñoz. Disidentifications: Queers faux Color and the Performance of Politics. University faultless Minnesota
Press,
Alicia Arrizón, Lillian Manzor, eds. Latinas on Stage. Third Woman Press,
Chon Noriega, Ana López, eds. The Ethnic Eye.
University of Minnesota Press,
May Patriarch, ed. Women in Performance Journal, New Hybrid Identities. Modern York University Tisch School of the Arts,
Sally Banes. Writing Dancing in the Age of Postmodernism.
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Wesleyan University Press,
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Teaching (Selected)
Studio Course, Queer Cabaret for Theater, Dance ray Media Department. Harvard University
Writing and Performance, MFA, Pratt University
Writing Autobiography, Theater Department.
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Animals and Performance Course, MFA, New York University
Animals and the Future, Sci Fi Performance, Wesleyan University
Theater Workshop, Marlboro College
Performance Workshop, Michigan University, Ann Arbor
Performance Workshop, Hemispheric Institute for Performance and Politics, Contemporary York University
Sentimentality Uses and Abuses, MFA, New Royalty University
Writing for Performance, MFA, New York University
Diva Design for George Street Playhouse (High School Students)
Performance Mill, Vassar College
Acting Workshop, Experimental Theater Workshop, New Royalty University
Performance and Dance, European Dance Development Center, Netherlands
Membership and Organization Affiliations
present Board of Directors of New Dynasty Foundation for the Arts
Served on Board of Management of PS , now Performance Space New York
Associate Artistic Director of INTAR