by Summer Callahan
This week, Hispanic voices take center stage! Five contemporary plays, performed in English, live music, and Hispanic food will shine at Goodwood Museum on Aug. 8-9. This year’s 8th Annual Micro Theater Festival will include two plays translated and one play directed by Tallahassee Hispanic Theater’s founder and president, Alejandra Gutierrez.
As a college student, Alejandra Gutierrez walked into a maze of mirrors — or into “Laberinto de Cristal,” a play by Spanish writer Alfonso Plou. The play, about five young people pursuing their artistic passions, spoke to Gutierrez. She’d left her own hometown at 16 to study journalism in Venezuela’s bustling capital, Caracas. But fate had other plans. When her university needed a lead actress for Laberinto, Gutierrez stepped onto that stage and never left.
For the next six years, Gutierrez would work with renowned companies like Grupo Actoral 80, and under acclaimed playwright Juan Carlos Gené, against the backdrop of a waning Argentinian dictatorship. Later, Gutierrez worked as the special events coordinator for Venezuela’s International Progressive Theater Festival, bringing performers from across Latin America, Germany, Italy, Spain, and beyond.
In 2004, Gutierrez moved to the United States to pursue a PhD. The University of Virginia, she soon discovered, had its own Hispanic theater program. And when she moved to Tallahassee to join Florida State University, she was determined to start one of her own. Thus, Tallahassee Hispanic Theater (THT) was born.
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