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MAGDALENA
GÓMEZ - PERFORMER
"Magdalena
Gómez's" Chopping" is a wonderful monologue that
is acted with gusto...it is emotionally engaging. Gómez's
performance is remarkable."
-Vladimir Zelevinsky,
The Boston Globe
Magdalena Gómez has performed internationally
in a wide spectrum of venues throughout her life: theaters, video,
television, bars, clubs, colleges and universities, schools, libraries,
basements, prisons, monasteries, outdoor stages, conferences, housing
projects, hospitals, community based organizations, ashrams, synagogues,
with the occasional spontaneous performances on subways, buses,
airports, restaurants and jury pools.
Magdalena has worked as a performance poet since 1970. In her early
20’s a theatrical agent advised her to change her name and
“pass” and she would be assured of work in the theater
business. Magdalena got rid of the agent, never went to another
audition and began writing her own solo shows along with her poetry.
She performed her work wherever a space was available and had a
following of regulars, but remained underground.
Among her more recent work, her solo show, Chopping. Mina,
a compulsive shopper, speaks to us from her closet, as she reflects
on her life, identity, sexuality; all within the dynamics of desire
and culture. Mina celebrates and becomes the women who have influenced
her life's journey, through the recuerdos hidden within the secret
life of objects. Chopping premiered at the 2001 Boston Women
on Top Festival with subsequent productions in NYC at the @Here
performance space for the Voices from Coconut Hill Festival, Latina
Letters Conference, San Antonio Texas, New WORLD Theater, Amherst,
MA; Smith College, Northampton, MA and is still available for touring.
For bookings,
workshops and more information: atabex49@yahoo.com
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Solo Work Performances and Play Readings/Productions Include: |
| Repertorio
Español, NYC (The Language of Stars), staged reading,
2004 |
| New
WORLD Theater, (Cha-Cha in Love with Antonio Banderas), 2003 |
| LARK
Theater, NYC (The Language of Stars), roundtable reading, 2003 |
| LARK
Theater, NYC, (Landscapes), roundtable reading, 2003 |
| Women's
Voices: National Storyteller's Conference, Pittsfield, MA, (Chopping)
2003 |
| New
WORLD Theater, Amherst, MA, (Chopping) Production, 2001 |
| Smith
College, Northampton, MA, 2003 |
| Mud/Bone
Theater Collective, NYC, (Manuel and the Mother Who Bore Him),
2002 |
| South
Coast Repertory Theater (Lobster Face), Staged Reading, 2002 |
| Latina
Letters Conference, San Antonio, TX (Chopping) Production, 2002 |
| Voices
from Coconut Hill Theater Festival @HERE, NYC, (Chopping) Production,
2002 |
| Boston
Women on Top Theater Festival, 2001 (Chopping) Production, 2001 |
| Enchanted
Circle Theater, (Remembering and Another Way to See), touring
1995-2001 |
(Extended list available upon request)
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