Holahola

The New York Metro area is always alive with theatre, especially Spanish theatre serving the nation's largest concentration of Spanish speaking immigrants from all over the globe. New York City isthe crucible where future Hispanic talent is forged, tried and tested. HOLA is proud to bring you performance announcements as they happen. Click at right and visit our "In Performance" website.All HOLA members, whether they are members of a performer union or not, are entitled to be a member of the Actors Federal Credit Union. |SAVE THE DATE
Monday, October 18, 2010
ELEVENTH ANNUALHOLA AWARDS
The Players 16 Gramercy Park South at 20th Street and Irving Place Reception begins at 6:30PM
For ticket information please
call toll free 888-524-HOLA, 12-6PM
Tickets mailed orpicked up upon payment
Veteran actor TONY PLANA to recieve
the Raúl Juliá HOLA Founder's Award
To purchase tickets online click here | |
|The HOLA Story|
|Thirty-five years ago, a core group of professional Latino actors working in New York, including some famous ones likeJosé Ferrer |
|and Raúl Juliá, decided to address the inequities created by the casting system that underemployed Hispanic actors and relegated |
|Latino characters to negative stereotypes.Early encounters with the casting system showed how to gain fair access. |
|By building solid relationships with media producers and casting agents, HOLA bit by bit, friend byfriend, and committee by |
|committee helped reshape our future. One example of HOLA’s struggle, on behalf of Hispanic actors, was the well publicized |
|collaboration with Actor’sEquity Association to ensure appropriate casting for Death and the Maiden on Broadway in the 1990’s. Since|
|then there has been no major incidents of inappropriate casting on Broadway....