ASI MI NATION: UN CALIBAN BORICUA EN TRANSNACIOLANDIA

por Carlos Manuel Rivera*
A través de una estética que no esté demarcada por una definición tradicional, sino por una ruptura de fronteras entre las artes que desestabilicen sus viejos modelos genéricos, se representa ASI MI NATION, un Calibán, ahora bajo un mundo interrelacionado por la globalización en la que surgen varios niveles políticos, sociales, económicos y culturales. De esta forma, se trata de desconstruir a través de la metáfora calibanesca aquellas definiciones monolíticas puertorriqueñas de lo nacional, cultural, político y genérico, entronados a través de un discurso monológico de lo caribeño, lo gringo y lo latinoamericano.

La metáfora del Calibán posmoderno/poscolonial en nuestros tiempos es representado estéticamente mediante un arte interdisciplinario, desjerarquizado, multidimensional e híbrido que expresa las relaciones interculturales de los sujetos marginados y, que desmantela las viejas estereotipificaciones que han establecido su conceptualización esencialista en el primer y tercer mundo desde diversas perspectivas. Es decir, para el discurso criollo arielista, perpetuado en la ciudad letrada colonial, Calibán sigue siendo el paria, al su discurso seguir legitimándose por instituciones latinoamericanas, gringas y caribeñistas, tales como bibliotecas, academias y centros culturales. En estos momentos la metáfora de Calibán se produce, usando una nueva cartografia que no necesariamente represente la construcción espacial e identitaria totalizante de la otredad primermundista y tercermundista, sino la liminalidad espacial e identitaria de una multiplicidad de sujetos heterogéneos, ambiguos y contradictorios ubicados en tiempos globales y transnacionales.

El Calibán que va a transnaciolandia se desterritorializa de la Isla, ha violentado su identidad y se ha desvinculado de su espacio boricua y localista, al su desterritorialización desafíar su pertenencia espacial, lingüística, etnica, clasista, de orientación genérica y sexual. Es decir, su legitimación se enriquece con lo diverso, con el cruce de márgenes hacia centros metropolitanos y con su propia parodia e ironía como sujeto ontológico. De esta manera, el sujeto calibanesco se reterritorializa en un significante flotante que atraviesa las fronteras lingüísticas, nacionales, etnicas, de clase y de género y, su constante movimiento evidencia un discurso transterritorial y transdisciplinario que cuestiona los paradigmas recalcitrantes de las tradicionales disciplinas de las ciencias sociales y humanas que lo han construido y representado. El discurso calibanesco transterritorial entierra un pasado y se transmuta en una nueva conciencia posnacional y posidentitaria, transgrediendo y resistiendo la concreticidad, la homogeneizacion y el esencialismo del sujeto boricua insular. Ahora, el sujeto calibanesco es multiforme, liminal, heterogéneo, contradictorio, ambiguo e híbrido. Se descategoriza la vieja metáfora bajo las formas perversas de la estética tales como simulacros, simulaciones, pastiches, cyborgizaciones, palimpseptos, por decir algunas, que desacreditan todo discurso fundamentalista, distorsionándose en una virtualidad hiperreal. Por consiguiente, entendemos que la subjetividad calibanesca es una resistencia en tiempos globales y transnacionales a los límites que la constituyen desde conceptualizaciones, discursos y representaciones totalizantes.

Bajo estas experiencias estéticas transterritoriales van surgiendo los cuestionamientos y las resistencias a los discursos totalizantes de los espacios de origen del sujeto. Es decir, la transnacionalidad acentúa una tendencia al desmantelamiento de los discursos nacionales homogeneizantes y los límites fronterizos de sujetos y sus pertenencias espaciales, al sus aparatos estatales no legitimar estas nuevas articulaciones identitarias. Ahora la transnacionalidad y la transterritorialidad calibanesca se fundamenta en la colaboración de una multiplicidad de sujetos subalternos en los centros metropolitanos hegemónicos, quienes van a reclamar “sus derechos humanos, la democratización de la economía, el fomento de la diversidad cultural, así como la eliminación de las antipatías étnicas y raciales en la definición de la nacionalidad [puertorriqueña]” (Torres-Saillant).
* poeta, actor y performero boricua que vive en Bronx, Nueva York y trabaja como Catedrático Asociado para Bronx Community College, CUNY

Para un poema

Para un poema
A: Los “Spoken Words”.

“No le toques ya más,
que así es la rosa”.
Mi Padre Parnaso, Juan Ramón.

Ya las musas
están muertas,
aunque cucubanos
asedian por los cementerios.

Ya el letargo
aguarda
su prisa

y las azucenas
se confuden
de mandrágoras.

Ya la ausencia
se dicta
de un presente

y las actas
se resumen
sin pasado.

Ya el cansancio
se prolonga
del veneno

y detecta
la tangencia
de sus rosas.

Ya la congoja
se alza
de su risa

y se pudre
con fragancia
de sus gotas.

Ya el proverbio
no se mide
por su cola

sin inicio
del consciente
que apodera.

Ya los grados
del instante
se derivan

como ondas
que penetran
sin imanes.

Ya sus ruinas
no registran
de paredes

sin que sombras
atesoren
pulsaciones.

Ya no
establecen
sus ánimos.

Ya no
circudan
sus cosas.

Sólo
tintas
que cantores

no
acomodan
a sus plumas.

RESUME

Acting and Performances Resume

Carlos Manuel Rivera

1065 Jerome Avenue Apt. 6-A

Bronx, NY, 10452.

(646) 620-4776 .

Objective:

To act in theater, film, television, and voice over; and to direct theater.

Qualifications:

27 years acting, performing, directing, writing in theater, Puerto Rico, Spain, Mexico, USA.

Training:

Arizona State University 1996-2000

New York University            1987-1988

University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras 1980-1987

Skills:

Acting for theatre, television, film, and radio in Spanish and English.

Performances and Plays:

La Bori Bori de Mink”. Centro Cultural El Barco de Papel, Queens New York 14 de abril de 2018. 

 Forum Amalgama, Ponce Puerto Rico, March 10, 2018. 

“La Bori Bori de Mink”. VII Coloquio ¿Del otro la’o? Perspectivas y debates sobre lo cuir. Trans, inter y otras rutas emergentes. Universidad de Puerto Rico, Recinto de Mayagüez, March 8, 2018. (Actor Role: La Bori Bori de Mink)

"La Regla". Monologando Ando 2017, William V. Musto Cultural Center, Union City, New Jersey. Feebruary 9, 2018 and in The Producers Theater Club, February 22, 2018. (Actor Role: La Regla)

"La Regla". Festival de Monólogos Ando Monologando. The Producers Theater Club. September 20, 2017. (Actor Role: La Regla)

New Year's Day Spoken Word/Performance Extravaganza! Nuyorican Poet Cafe, NY, NY, January 1, 2018. (Poet-performer)

“La Regla”. 7ma Temporada de Ando Monologando. The Producers Club, NY, NY, September 20, 2017. (Actor Role La Regla).

Poesía Multidisciplinaria. La Cueva del Uapiti, Montevideo, Uruguay. June, 24, 2017. (Poet-performer)

Noches Equis. Centro Cultural La Senda, Buenos Aires, Argentina June 15, 2017. (Poet-Performer)

Circuito Cerrado. Vuela El Pez, Buenos Aires, Argentina, June 20, 2017. (Poet-Performer)

Poesía Multidisciplinaria. La Cueva del Uapiti, Montevideo, Uruguay. June, 24, 2017. (Poet-performer)

“Hispanic Panic Strike Back: May The Fierce Be With You”. BAAD, Bronx, N Y, May 5, 2017. (Performer)

“EL A MUELTO”. Bronx Latin American Art Biennial. Loisaida Inc. Center Gallery. November 17, 2016. (Installation/Poet-Performer). 

“Rescate poético”. Poetry Performance at Fest 2016 Borimix.

Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural and Educational Center, November 12, 2016. (Poet-Performer).

“EL A MUELTO".  Borinqueya: An Envolving Travesy. Fest 2016 Borimix. 

Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural and Educational Center, November 4, 2016. (Installation/Poet-Performer)

From Poe’s Porch. Macabre Poetry Series. Bronx Writer Center and Bronx Historical Society. Edgar Allan Poe Cottage, Bronx, NY, October 29, 2016. (Poet-Performer)

The Photographic Exibit: “Urban Latinos: Un Sopón Rico.”  Luisa Capetillo Gallery, El Barrio Firehouse, NY, NY October 15, 2016. (Poet-Performer)

“Salute to Ana Castillo.” Julia de Burgos Cultural Center, NY, NY September 30, 2016. (Poet-Performer)

Feature Poet in Smokin’ Words, Elkat Productions, South of France, Bronx, New York September 16, 2016. (Poet-Performer)

“Rescate poético 1, 2, and 3”. Poetry Performance at Camaradas del Barrio, NY, NY. April 3 and August 7, 2016 and at Taíno Towers Ball Room, NY, NY. June 9, 2016. (Poet-Performer)

Stereo Island Mosaic by Vincent Toro. Book Signing and Celebration. Nuyorican Poet Cafe, June 12, 2016. (Poet-Performer)

(Performer)

The Rise of the Bilingual. Brooklyn, New York, May 28, 2016. (Poet-Performer)

 35 Poets for Oscar. La Marqueta, NY, NY, May 28, 2016. (Poet-Performer)

Bronx Community College & the Association of Latino Faculty &Staff Honor Awards Ceremony, May 13, 2016. (Poet-Performer)

Hispanic Writers Week, May 7, 2016, Villa Victoria Cultural Center, Boston, Massachusetts. (Poet-Performer)

“Q-Boro Lit Crawl.” Fundraising Queens Book’s Fair. Poetry Performance at Dominies Hoer, Queens, New York. April 7, 2016. (Poet-Performer)

“Rescate poético”. Poetry Performance at Camaradas del Barrio, NY, NY. April 3, 2016. (Poet-Performer)

“La poética de la alcapurria”. Poetry Performance at Dixon Place, NY,  NY, March 16 2016. (Poet-Performer)

“La Regla”. VI Coloquio Del otro la’ Perspectivas sobre sexualidades queers caribeñas. Universidad de Puerto Rico, Recinto de Mayagüez, March 2, 2016. (Actor Role: La Regla)

Festival de Declamadores. Comisionado Dominicano de la Cultura, NY, NY February 11, 2016.  (Poet-Performer)

“An Evening with Miguel Algarín. Nuyorican Legendary Poet.” Hostos Community College, CUNY, November 18, 2015. (Poet-Performer)

Blaqlist Poetry Reading Serie. Port Morris Distillery, Bronx, NY, October 22 , 2015 (Poet-Performer)

Presentation of the Anthology Amanecida. Ed. by Etnairis Ribera. Boricua College, Manhattan Campus NY, NY October 8, 2015. (Poet-Performer)

“AFROPOETICS: Honoring the Afro-Descendant Puerto Rican Legacy.” Museo del Barrio, NY, NY, June 8 2015. (Poet)

Smokin’ Word by Machete Movement. El Fogón Cultural Center, Bronx, NY, January 31, 2015. (Poet-Performer)

"Past Forward" Bronx Latin American Art Biennial, November 15, 2014. Bronx Arts Space, Bronx, NY. (Poet- Performer)

“Gathering of Carnations: A Marathon of Julia de Burgos' poetry”. Taíno Stickball Community Gallery, NY, NY, September 27, 2014. (Poet)

The Americas Poetry Festival of New York 2014. College at The Center for Worker Education. Center for Worker Education, City College CUNY, NY, NY, October 15, 2014. (Poet)

"Balbucéalo". Casa de la Cultura Ruth Hernández, San Juan, Puerto Rico, July 18, 2014. (Poet-Performer)

"De búsqueda a Trazos 30 años después: puesta en circulación de la Revista Trazos".  Gregorio Luperón School, NY, NY, May 29, 2014. (Poet)

 "La Regla". Veinte 14, Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, April 19, 2014. (Performer)

"The Last Poet Standing" Bowery Poetry Club, NY, NY, February 16, 2014. (Poet)

December 9, 2013. "Latino Spoken Words: Worship to Spanglish." General Consulate of Spain in New York. Bowery Poetry Club, NY, NY. (Poet and Curator)

November 29, 2013. Monologue "La Regla" by Carlos Manuel Rivera IX New Poetry Festival of New York. Word Up Bookstore, NY, NY. (Actor La Regla)

October 17, 2013. Festival de la Palabra de Puerto Rico en Nueva York. Poetry reading, CUNY Graduate Center, (Poet)

October 6, 2013, "Yans & Reto 2013 7 minutes or less performances, short films, videos, proclamations, comedy, song." Anthology Film Archives-New York, New York (Performer).

July 27, 2013, The 3rd Poetry Festival, Governor Island, NY, NY. (Poet).

July 6, 2013, Poetry Performance Sexta Maratón Cultural de Colectivo Poetas de Nueva York, Quuens, NY. (Performer).

May 26, 2013, Soap Box Poets. Howl Festival, NY, NY. (Poet) .

May 18, 2013, Serie de Lecturas Rizoma. Instituto Cervantes, NY, NY. (Poet).

December 8, 2012. Poetry Reading Hispanic Latino Book Fair. Queens, NY (Poet).

December 1, 2012. Poetry Reading Festival de Nueva Poesía, Colectivo Poetas de Nueva York, NY, NY (Poet).

November 16, 2012. "Perfume para entes o veneno pa' la gente". 3rd United Solo Festival. Theatre Row, NY, NY. November 29, 2012. Opart, Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural Center, (Performer).

November 2, 2012. "La Tongo" by Abniel Marat. BAAD, Bronx, NY. (La Tongo).

 September 27, 2012. "Trilingua: The Innauguration". Performing the poetry. La Cantina Royal, Brooklyn, NY. (Poet-Performer).

August 26, 2012. ASI MI NATION. Performing the Poetry. La casa Azul Book Store, NY NY, and October 6, 2012, El Barco de Papel Book Store, Queens, NY (Poet-Performer).

June 29,  2012. A poetry reading and performance “Niuyoriqueando Mi Nation” VI Congress of Hispanic Association of Humanities, Madrid, Spain. (Poet-Performer).

June 23, 2012. Poetry Performance Quinta Maratón Cultural de Colectivo Poetas de Nueva York. (Poet-Performer).

May 26, 2012. “San Hediondo Sal que Daña” by Carlos Manuel Rivera. Performance. 10^th Anniversary Trazarte Huellas Creativas. Comisionado Dominicano de la Cultura en los Estados Unidos. NY NY. (San Hediondo).

November 27, 2011. Dramatic Reading “Quisimos tanto a Lydia” written and directed by Aravind Adyanthaya. O.P.A.R.T. Cultural Center Clemente Soto Vélez, NY, NY. (Luisa).

November 9, 2011. O.P.A.R.T presents a night of Poetry, Performance, and Visual Art. BORIMIX, Puerto Fest 2011, Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural Center, NY, NY. (Poet-Performer).

October 29, 2011. “Suspense”. Performing the Poetry. Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural Center, NY, NY.(Poet-Performer).

October 15, 2011.“San Hediondo Sal que Daña”. Libro Abierto. Feria Latinoamericana del Libro. Literary Fair. Lincoln Hospital, Bronx NY. (San Hediondo).

August 13, 2011. ASI MI NATION. Poetry and Spoken Words by Carlos Manuel Rivera. Recorded and Arrangements by Papo “Forajido”Gely. CD Released Presentation. Sister’s Uptown Bookstore and Cultural Center, NY, NY. (Poet-Performer).

July 24, 2011.Words and Music for Miguel Algarín. The Phoenix, NY, NY. (Poet-Performer).

June 15, 2011. “La Tongo” de Abniel Marat. Monologue. “Live from Cuba!: Roxy La Rusa and Friends”. The Phoenix, NY, NY.  (La Tongo).

June 2-4, 2011. “San Hediondo Sal que Daña”. Horas de Junio. Universidad de Sonora, Hermosillo, México. (San Hediondo).

 May 29, 2011.“Callejerismo”. Agueybaná Productions. Poetry Performance. The Loisaida Festival, NY, NY. (Poet-Performer).

April 27, 2011.“Boricabaret”. Hispanic Panic. Performing the Poetry. Nowhere, NY, NY. (Performer).

April  23, 2011.“Resurrection”. Performing the Poetry. Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural Center, NY, NY. (Performer).

November 30, 2010.Tribute to Miguel in HisWords. Performing the Poetry. Niuyorican Poet Café, NY, NY. (Poet-Performer).

November 20, 2010. Machete Band Aniversary. Performing the Poetry. Notice, Brooklyn, NY. (Poet-Performer).

November 2010 until the present. Capicu Cultural Showcase. Performing the Poetry. Notice Lounge, Brooklyn, NY. (Poet-Performer).

November 17, 2010. ASI MI NATION. Performing the Poetry. BMCC, CUNY. (Poet-Performer).

October 27, 2010. “Spirits and Monster Panic”. Hispanic Panic . Nowhere, NY, NY. (Poet-Performer).

July 8, 2010. Presentation of the Anthology of the Complete Poetry works by Abniel Marat. Performing the Poetry. La Casa de la Herencia Cultural Puertorriqueña, NY, NY. (Poet-Performer).

June 23, 2010. “Pride Panic”. Performing the Poetry. Nowhere, NY, NY. (Poet-Performer).

May 15, 2010. ASI MI NATION. La Pregunta Arts Café, NY, NY. (Poet-Performer).

January 27, 2010 “Hispanic Panic” Performing the poetry. Nowhere, NY, NY. (Poet-Performer).

January 6, 2010 Las Preciosas ridículas by Moliere., directed by Antonio Pantojas. NYCHA, Pequeño Teatro, (Monsieur Le Grange).

November 28, 2009 La Tongo by Abniel Marat Monologue. Until Midnite Café Teatro, Bronx, NY. (La Tongo).

October 7, 2009 Soplo mágicos disparates. Performance.  Bronx Hispanic Festival, Bronx Museum. (Performer).

July 2-30 2009 Un Boricua en Nueva York. Performance. La Pregunta Arts Café, NY, NY. (Poet-Performer).

May 30, 2009 Soplo mágicos disparates. Performance., La Pregunta Arts Café, NY, NY. (Poet-Performer).

June 17, 2007 Anna in Her Tropics by Nilo Cruz. Staged Reading,  directed by Frank Domínguez, Theatre Charlotte. (Santiago).

January 13 and 14, 2007 Divas Gremio by Pedro Santaliz. Poetry reading with the author as an introduction before the performanceNiuyorican Café and Taller Cé, San Juan Puerto Rico. (Poet-Performer).

November 15, 2006 Davidson Reads. Performing the poetry and sharing with Dr. Randy Nelson fiction reading, Davidson College, , 900 Room Alvarez Union. (Poet-Performer).

November 2, 2006 Performance “Invocation The Death”. Event of  Día de los Muertos, OLAS, Davidson College. (Performer).

August 18, 2006 Performance The New Invaders, a Jam Cross Over with Guillermo Gómez Peña and his troupe La Pocha Nostra. Museum of Contemporary Art, Oaxaca, Mexico. (Performer).

May 26-28, 2005. “Esto fue lo que trajo el barco”. Performance directed by Myrna Renaud. Third Encounter of Dance, Danza Aquí. Luquillo, Puerto Rico. (Poet-Performer).

May 21, 2005 Bilingual Spoken Word Art. Artsplosure @ Exploris: Latin Jazz Extravaganza. Exploris Art Museum, Raleigh, North Carolina.. (Poet-Performer).

Nov. 17-21 2004 Pastiche Trans-performance conceived and directing by Roberto Prestigiacomo. Theatre Department, Davidson College, (Performer and Dramaturge).

August 12, 2004 Presentation of the book Soplo mágicos disparates. Performance.

Cultural Center Casa Aboy, San Juan, Puerto Rico, (Poet-performer).

May 3-4, 2004 Must be stories told by Osvaldo Dragún. Latin American Theatre course, Davidson College, (Directing).

April 9, 2004 Presentation of the book Soplo mágicos disparates. Performance and reading.

Phoenix College, Arizona. (poet-performer).

November 2 and 3, 2003 Performance “Prelude to the Death”. Celebration of the Day of the Dead (Día de los Muertos). Sponsored by OLAS and Spanish Department, Union and Perkins Auditorium Davidson College. (Performer).

September 4-9, 2003  Writing of the poetry-performance (script) “Calibán va pa’ la YUPI (Universidad de Puerto Rico)” for Hincando el pie (dance-theater performance), performed by Hincapié Modern Dance-Theater Company, directed and choreographed by Petra Bravo.  University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras.  (Writer).

April 2-5, 2003 La Tongo by Abniel Marat. Fifth Congress of Latin American Theater. University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas. (La Tongo).

July 13, 2002 "I'm Pedro Pietri's Character". Performance poetry by Carlos Manuel Rivera, Orbis Press, Phoenix, Arizona. (Poet-Performer).

April 6, 2002 Performance of La Tongo by Abniel Marat.

The Latin American Arts Festival, The Community Theatre of Greensboro,NC, Artistika Concert Café. (La Tongo).

November 2001. "Prospero and The Sea", version of The Tempest by William Shakespeare, Written and Directed by Oscar Giner, Aleph, inc. 38^th International Theater Festival, Fine Arts Center, San Juan, Puerto Rico. (Caliban).

May 2001 Híbrido Spanish Theatre Performance directed by Carlos Manuel Rivera.

Davidson College, North Carolina. (Director).

November 2000 "Conjuro de la muerte," Performance Day of the Death, Davidson College, North Carolina. Performed by Carlos Manuel Rivera. (Performer).

April 2000 "The Origin of the sea" written and directed by Oscar Giner based in Fray Ramón Pane's Spanish Chronicle of the Taínos Indians. ASU Theatre Department. (Behique).

December 1999 La Pastorela, Christmas Shepherd Drama, Centro La Amistad, Arizona. Directed by Zarco Guerrero. (Luis).

November 1999 La casa de Bernarda Alba by Federico García Lorca. ASU, Theatre and Spanish Department. (La Poncia).

February 1999 Hispanick Zone by Guillermo Reyes. Arizona Rasquachi Players, Playwright Theater, Phoenix, Arizona. Directed by Warren Baumghart. (Mr. Puerto Rico).

December 1998 La Pastorela, Christmas Shepherd Drama, Teatro Chicano La Esperanza, Centro La Amistad, and ASU Public Events. Written and directed by Rodrigo Duarte Clark. (Luis).

March, June, and September 1998 La Tongo, monologue by Abniel Marat in Chandler and Gilbert Community College, Arizona; Third National Encounter of Mexican Writers, Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico, Oasis Review of University of Sonora; and Nine Literary Congress of Feminine Hispanic Literature: Feminine Imaginaries. (La Tongo).

May 1998 Cultural Proflections: Minus 2. Multimedia Experiment involving Internet related technologies and various artists from Belize and United States. Directed by John Colt, North Light Gallery, and ASU. (Poet-Performer).

December 1997 Staged Reading Play Hispanick Zone by Guillermo Reyes. Theatre Department, ASU. (Mr. Puerto Rico).

March 1997 "Bori- cuándo", Performance Poetry. "Confluencias poéticas" Anniversary of El Culturadoor, Hispanic Cultural Review in Arizona.  II Mexican Literature Congress, Spanish Department, ASU. (Poet-Performer).

May 1996 El niño que enloqueció de amor by Eduardo Barrios. Guaynabo Fine Arts Center, Puerto Rico. (El Doctor).

July 1995 "No autobombo" Performance Poetry in La Iguana Dorada poetry review activity. Café Seda, Old San Juan, Puerto Rico. (Poet-Performer).

Marzo 1995 Palés Matos Homage. Poetry Performance. Interamerican University, Guayama, Puerto Rico. (Poet-Performer).

February 1995 “El día que conocimos el amor”. Performance Poetry, Interamerican University, Guayama, Puerto Rico. (Poet-Performer).

December 1994 "Al desnudo en la poesía" Performance Poetry, Inter American University, Guayama, Puerto Rico. (Poet-Performer).

November 1994 "Rene Cla, El Escorpión Reciclador" Performance Poetry to Marta Pérez Painting Exhibition, Botello Gallery, Old San Juan, Puerto Rico. (Poet-Performer).

May 1994 “Sin tesis. Performance Poetry at Interamerican University, Guayama, Puerto Rico. (Poet-Performer).

November 1993 "Inejí" Performance Poetry with the group Ando Caribe Ando. Bayamón and Carolina University of Puerto Rico Campus. (Poet-Performer).

May 1993 "Somos depredadores" Written and Directed by Ivonne Petrovich. Hogares Crea, Bayamón, Puerto Rico. (Actor).

November 1992 "Vestir para la poesía o poesía para vestir" poetry activity with "Disparates, hábitos y monjes vestidos" Performance Poetry. Tapia Theater, Old San Juan, Puerto Rico. (Poet-Performer).

September 1992 "Perfume para entes o veneno pa' la gente", monologue-poem, Museo del Chopos, Mexico City, Mexico. (Performer).

August 1992 "Sudaca 92 Ni Taínos acá /Ni Taínos allá" Performance Poetry, Tapia Theater, Old San Juan, Puerto Rico. (Poet-Performer).

May 1991 La nueva vida by Lydia Milagros González. Acting and directing by Carlos Manuel Rivera. University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras, Puerto Rico. (El Jíbaro).

May 1990 En la diestra de Dios Padre by Enrique Buenavaventura. Metropolitan University, Cupey, Puerto Rico, directed by María Vilches. (Peralta).

October 1989 Pepita Jiménez by Juan Varela, Adaptation by Roberto Ramos-Perea, Yo Soy, inc. University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras, directed by Edgar Quiles. (Sebastíán).

September 1989 "El negro en América" by Victoria Espinosa. Dance, Music and Poetry Performance. University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras. (Performer).

November 1988 Otello by William Shakespeare. Directed by Alina Marrero , Bohío Puertorriqueño,inc.  Puerto Rico, Fine Arts Center. (Dux of Venice).

July-August, 1987 Coqui Corihundo vira el mundo (Anastasia). Written and directed by Zora Moreno, Flor de Cahíllo, inc. Fine Arts Center, San Juan, Puerto Rico. (Policía)

May 1987 Dream on  Monkey Mountain by Derek Walcott. Directed by Fedora Montañez and supervised for a theater course of directing by Victoria Espinosa. University of Puerto Rico,  Río Piedras. (Mosquito).

May 1987 Tres lirios de cala by Abniel Marat. Directed by Josean Ortiz and supervised for a theater course of directing by Victoria Espinosa. University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras. (El Utilero).

April, 1987  Retablo de las maravillas y otras maravillas by Cervantes. Spanish Language Fest.

Touring Theater of University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras. (El Procurador).

April 1987 Aulularia by Plauto. Directed by Gilda Navarra, University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras. (Cocinero).

February 1987 El carbón que ha sido brasa (Triología Costumbrista). Directed by Dean M. Zayas, University of Puerto Rico. (Ruperto).

February to July 1987 El Cemí de Maboya Written and Directed by Pedro Santaliz and The New American Theater of the Poor, Puerto Rico. (Tratoriafux)

November 1985 Mother Courage by Bertold Brecht. University of Puerto Rico, directed by Dean M. Zayas. (Actor).

November 1984  The Man of the Moon.  University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras, directed by María Eugenia (Cuca) Mercado. (Pyp).

May 1984 Dr. Death de 3 a 5 University of Puerto Rico,  Río Piedras, directed by Mérida Méndez and supervised for a theater course of directing by Victoria Espinosa. (El Ayudante del Doctor).

November 1983 The Sun and The Mac Donald by René Marqués. Univeristy of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras, directed by Victoria Espinosa. (Ciro).

March 1983. A Man is a Man by Bertold Brecht. Coribantes, inc. Corral de la Cruz, San Juan, Puerto Rico, directed by Edgar Quiles. (Actor)

September 1982 Revolution on the Hell by Roberto Ramos-Perea. First Encounter of Puerto Rican New Playwrights, University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras, directed by Victoria Espinosa. (El Abanderado and Conrado).

September 1982 Oedipus the King by Sofocles, Coribantes inc., University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras, directed by Rafael Rojas. (Coro).

Film/TV

January, 2010 Last Shot written and filmed by Cindy Sanabria. Writer Scene, NYC. (The Vodoo Priest).

October 16, 2004 51^st State directed by Vincent González, Gonzfield Pictures. Broadcasting and Cinema Department, Univeristy of North Carolina at Greensboro. (The Old Man).

1995 Jennifer Wolf Show- TV Documental, Telemundo, Chanel 2, San Juan, Puerto Rico. (Actor).

1995-1996 ¿Será acaso este su caso? TV Program, WIPR, Chanel 6, San Juan, Puerto Rico. (Actor).

Professional Membership

Puerto Rican Studies Association, USA.

College of Theater Actor Puerto Rico.

Languages

Spanish, English. Speaking, Writing and Reading.

*My Theater Company Polen Extraño, Inc. San Juan, and Puerto Rico did many of these Performances.