Getting closer to the World Premiere of our next —and last production for this season—“Dance for a dollar" a danceá— theatre created by Mariana Carreño King and Daniel Jáquez opening May 2, 2013. Meet the rest of the assembled of fantastic actors featuring a mix of familiar faces and performers making their Milagro debut.
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Anna Cristina Cano is thrilled to be involved in her second show at Miracle Theater and is forever grateful for the community and family she has developed working with such a rich and vibrant company. Cristina has a BA in Theater from Portland State University. She has been seen in Miracle's Viva La Revolución, and most recently as an actor, and as Musical Director for Action/Adventure Theater's serial-comedy, Fall of the Band. When she isn't acting, Cristina is playing music in her bands Siren and the Sea, and Albatross. She would like to give a big long intimate hug and thanks to her favorite people, who shall go unnamed so as to make her life sound more mysterious and interesting. You know who you are, Champions.
Veronika Núñez is
a graduate of Portland Actors Conservatory. Born in Texas and raised in
Caracas, Venezuela, Verónika moved to Portland in 2000. This is her seventh
production with Miracle where she has appeared in La barca sin pescador , Fuente
Ovejuna, Rosalba y los Llaveros, Bodas de sangre, Canta y no lllores, and How
the Garcia Girls Lost their Accents. Last year she was the assistant director
for Miracle’s Theater award winning production: Boleros for the Disenchanted. She directed
two readings for La Luna Nueva Festival: La casa de los espíritus (2011)
and La niña de cera (2012.) Last
spring he also appeared in NWCT’s first bilingual production: El Zorrito
(Esperanza.) She is immensely grateful
to her husband Blas and her son Diego for the patience and infinite love.
CarlosAlexis Cruz has been working as a professional actor for the past 9 years performing from New York City to Los Angeles, from the Dominican Republic to Mexico. Locally he has performed with Do Jump!, Imago and Milagro. He directed Milagro’s touring production of El Último and recently staged the show A Suicide Note from a Cockroach at Imago, marking the debut of his own new theatre company Pelú Theatre. CarlosAlexis was seen on Miracle’s stage in of Lazarillo, which he also directed. He also appeared in our last production of Boleros for the Disenchanted and Jardín de Sueños and La Celestina.
Alberto Romero originally from Michoacan, has a profound love for the theatre. With only 4 years of experience, hehas been a part of very amazing theatre projects—working with Oregon Children’s Theatre, Northwest Children’s Theater and Milagro Theatre. He made his debut in Entre Villa y Una Mujer Desnuda, Viva Revulución, Raíz, El Zorrito, y Pedros Path to Power. He also has a program online where he has been developing his TV personality. The program’s purpose, named “Entre Tú y Yo Tv”, is to show Oregon’s Latino community’s art, culture, comedy, educations and adventures. Finally, he thanks his teachers who have helped him to grow as an artist.
Nelda Reyes was born in Mexico, is co-founder of Nuestro Canto (traditional storytelling from Mexico). She has been a professional actress for the past 10 years and has specialized in physical theatre and in Latin American and Mexican cultural expressions. She holds a MA degree in Theatre Arts from Portland State University and also has studied in the Moscow Art Theatre School at Harvard University, with Luis de Tavira, and with Teatro Línea de Sombra in Mexico City. In Portland, she has participated in several productions at PSU, Theatre! Theater! and Miracle Theatre Group, both as a performer, singer and theatre educator. Her directing credits include: Duende for The Circus Project (2010) En Voz Alta: Voces Jovenes por Justicia Social (Roosevelt High School-Milagro, 2010), Los Vendidos (Roosevelt High School-Milagro, 2009) and Dido & Eneas (Ministerio de Cultura de Zapopan, 2007).
Edwin Alvelo began dancing 14 years ago in Philadelphia, where he studied dance with Roni Koreesh and Sandy Summers. In 1989, he moved to Portland and since then he has studied and performed with Bobby Fouther, the Urban Dance Ensemble and has been a member of the Really BIG Dance Company for the past five years
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