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Carmelita tropicana biography wife As a writer and performer, I have straddled the worlds of performance art and theater. I use irreverent humor and fantasy as subversive tools to challenge cultural stereotypes and rewrite history from multiple perspectives. By performing hyperbolic feminine and masculine personas, as well as numerous animals, insects, and fantasy creatures, I challenge historical and narrative authority. My work addresses political issues and looks at the intersections that exist between ethnicity, sexuality, gender, race and class. Performance Art and Video Screenings Selected.

Carmelita Tropicana

 

Carmelita Tropicana (Alina Troyano)

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Awards and Fellowships (Selected)

 

     United States Artists Fellowship

     José Esteban Muñoz Award, Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies, CLAGS 

     Soho Rep Project Number One 

     Park Avenue Armory Artist in Residence

     Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics, Senior Fellow

     Guggenheim Fellowship

     Creative Capital Award (collaboration with Branden Jacobs-Jenkins)

     MacDowell Fellowship 

     Women in Theater ATHE, Art and Activism Award 

     Theater Offensive, Out on the Edge Award

     Performance Space Outstanding Artistic Achievement 

     New York Foundation for the Arts, Playwriting Fellowship

     Anonymous Was A Woman 

     Cuban Arts Foundation Fellowship

     Obie Award for Theater

     Cintas Fellowship

     Martin Luther King, Cesar Chavez, Rosa Parks Visiting Professor, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

     New York Foundation for the Arts Playwriting Fellowship

     New York Foundation for the Arts 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 for Pandemic Times (streaming video), Park Avenue Armory

     Tropicana on Changing Language & Robin Wall Kimmerer (podcast), Artists-in-Presidents

 

Performance Art and Video Screenings (Selected)

 

     Chicken Sushi (video), Artists as Innovators: Celebrating Three Decades of NYFA, multiple SUNY venues including The Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, SUNY New Paltz; Paul W.

Zuccaire Gallery, Stony Brook University; Fosdick-Nelson Gallery, Alfred University

     US LatinX Futures & Museums (performance), Ford Foundation Conference, Bronx Museum, Bronx

     Art After Stonewall  (performance with Ela Troyano), Leslie Lohman Museum, NYC

     Memorias de la 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 Shape of Things: Walt Whitman (performance with Branden Jacobs-Jenkins), Park Avenue Armory, NYC

     Home Tour (performance with Ela Troyano), Home So Different 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 Institute, 9th Encuentro, Montreal

     Re-Performance Live from the Archive (performance), Hemispheric Institute, NYC

     Musa (performance), Hemispheric Institute, 8th Encuentro, Sao Paulo

     Meine Box (performance), Camp Anti-Camp Conference, Hebbel Am Ufer, Berlin

     FeMUSEum (performance), Trashing Performance Conference, Toynbee Hall, London

     Pingalito Betancourt’s Constructivist Art Movement (performance), El Museo del Barrio, NYC

     The Box (performance), Location One Gallery, 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 & Cry 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 Arts 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 Theater Cabaret, NYC

     Bad Girls Performance (performance), Bad Girls Exhibit, The New Museum, NYC

     Sor Juana (performance), Dixon Place, NYC

     Looking Good Cross Talk: A Multi-Cultural Feminist Symposium (performance), Drawing Center, NYC

     Sor Juana (performance with Eileen Myles), PS , NYC

     Ayer y Hoy (performance), The Decade Show, Studio Museum of Harlem, NYC

     Chicken Sushi (performance), multiple locations including: Thalia Theater, 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 Lab, Brattleboro, VT

/13 Post Plastica (with Ela Troyano), El Museo del Barrio, NYC; Out in the Tropics Festival, Miami

/12 Ole! Resoundingly Queer Conference, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY; Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh

/08 With What Ass Does the Cockroach Sit? Kirk Douglas Theater, Los Angeles; INTAR, NYC

/05 Single Wet Female (Marga Gomez collaboration), PS , NY; Throws Like a Girl Festival, Austin

/98 Chicas , Theater Offensive, Boston; PS , NY; Dixon Place, NYC

/19 Milk of Amnesia, PS , NY; Institute of Contemporary Art, London; and other venues including Centre de Cultura Contemporanea, Barcelona; Philadelphia Women’s Festival, Philadelphia; New World Theater, Amherst, MA

     Carnaval (with Uzi Parnes), PS , NYC; INTAR, NYC

     The Conquest of Mexico as Seen Through the Eyes of Hernán Cortés’s Horse (with Uzi Parnes), PS , NYC

     Candela (with Ela Troyano and Uzi Parnes), Dance Theater Workshop, NYC; Teatro Lazo, Mexico City

     Boiler Time Machine, PS ; New Langton Arts, San Francisco

     Memorias de la Revolucion (with Uzi Parnes), PS , NYC; WOW Theater, 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 Film Festival, San Francisco

 

 

 

Publications

Holly Hughes, Jill Dolan, Alina Troyano, eds.

Memories of the Revolution, The First Ten Years of the WOW

Café. University of Michigan Press, 

Alina Troyano; Chon A. Noriega, ed. 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, Performing Species Now,” With What Ass Does the Cockroach Sit, eds.

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Home Seasons Season 2 Season 1. Carmelita Tropicana. Tell me who you are and what you do. She is a very invented character or persona, that I started doing in the eighties. That's how I started performing, through this character.

Una Chaudhuri, Holly Hughes, University of Michigan Press,

“Goodnight Irene,” The Queerest Art: Essays on Lesbian and Gay Theatre, eds. Alisa Solomon, Framji Minwalla, New York University Press,

“Excerpts from Chicas ,” Corpus Delecti: Performance Art of the Americas, ed. Coco Fusco, Routledge,

“Memorias de la Revolucion/Memories of the Revolution,” Puro Teatro: A Latina Anthology, eds.

Alberto Sandoval-Sánchez, Nancy Saporta Sternbach, University of Arizona Press,

“Milk of Amnesia/Leche de Amnesia,” Latinas on Stage, eds.

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Alicia Arrizón, Lillian Manzor, Third Women Press,

“Looking Good: A Performer’s Perspective,” Talking Visions: Multicultural Feminism in a Transnational Age, ed. 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 of Amnesia/Leche de Amnesia,” O Solo Homo: The New Queer Performance, eds.

David Roman, Holly Hughes, Grove Press, Lambda Award Winner.

“Food for Thought,” Cooking with Honey: What Literary Lesbians Eat, ed. Amy Scholder, Firebrand Books,

“Boiler Time Machine,” In a Different Light: Visual Culture, Sexual Identity, Queer Practice, eds.

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    • Nayland Blake, Lawrence Rinder, Amy Scholder, City Light Books,  

    “Milk of Amnesia/Leche de Amnesia,” The Drama Review: The Journal of Performance Studies, Fall

    “Social Visit” and “Speech at the LUST Conference,” The New Fuck You: Adventures in Lesbian Reading, eds. Eileen Myles, Liz Kotz, Semiotexte,

    “Carnaval,” Bridges to Cuba, ed.

    Ruth Behar, The Michigan Quarterly Review, Fall

     

     

    List of Publications with Academic Essays on Carmelita Tropicana’s Work (Selected)

     

    José Esteban Muñoz. Joshua Chambers Letson, Tavya Nyongo, eds. The Sense of Brown.

    Carmelita tropicana biography Troyano burst on New York's downtown performing arts scene in the s with her alter ego, the spitfire Carmelita Tropicana and her counterpart, the irresistible archetypal Latin macho Pingalito Betancourt. She also has performed as Hernando Cortes 's horse and la Cucaracha Martina from her childhood fairy tales in Cuba. In Tropicana's work, humor and fantasy become subversive tools to rewrite history. Tropicana is the author of a collection of performance pieces and short essays called I, Carmelita Tropicana: Performing between Cultures that includes four performance scripts, a screenplay, and three essays. Using animals as characters and their symbolism occurs in several other works as well.

    Duke 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 and U.S.

    Latina Lesbian Expression. Temple University Press,

    José Esteban Muñoz. Disidentifications: Queers of Color and the Performance of Politics. University of Minnesota

    Press,

    Alicia Arrizón, Lillian Manzor, eds. Latinas on Stage.

    Carmelita tropicana biography net worth: Alina Troyano, more commonly known as Carmelita Tropicana, is a Cuban-American stage and film lesbian actress who lives and works in New York City.

    Third Woman Press,  

    Chon Noriega, Ana López, eds. The Ethnic Eye. University of Minnesota Press,

    May Joseph, ed. Women in Performance Journal, New Hybrid Identities. New York University Tisch School of the Arts,

    Sally Banes. Writing Dancing in the Age of Postmodernism.

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    Teaching (Selected)

     

         Studio Course, Queer Cabaret for Theater, Dance and 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, New York University

         Sentimentality Uses and Abuses, MFA, New York University

         Writing for Performance, MFA, New York University

         Diva Project for George Street Playhouse (High School Students)

         Performance Workshop, Vassar College

         Acting Workshop, Experimental Theater Workshop, New York University

         Performance and Dance, European Dance Development Center, Netherlands

     

     

    Membership and Organization Affiliations

    present       Board of Directors of New York Foundation for the Arts

              Served on Board of Directors of PS , now Performance Space New York

              Associate Artistic Director of INTAR