The Red Rose Wins the 2024 Talia Award
The Academy of Performing Arts of Spain (AAEE) gave the the Talía Award for “The Best Contemporary Hispanic Performing Arts Production in New York” to The Red Rose produced by Puerto Rican Traveling Theater.
The award ceremony took place in the historic Teatro Español in Madrid, where Rosalba Rolón from PRTT received the award in the company of nominees and the performing arts community. Rolón accepted the award mentioning that the Hispanic/Latino theater community in New York works to create ties across cultures and that the The Red Rose is, “an approach to historical texts that trace the passage of the Puerto Rican community through that great city, with all the setbacks and conquests.”
THE RED ROSE
Based on the life and writings of Jesús Colón
Book and Lyrics by Rosalba Rolón with Pregones Theater
Music by Desmar Guevara
Additional Music and Lyrics by Danny Rivera
Directed by Rosalba Rolón
The Red Rose pays tribute to Afro/Black Puerto Rican writer and activist Jesús Colón. Arriving in New York City as a stowaway youth in the winter of 1917, Colón went on to become a popular chronicler of the Puerto Rican migrant experience and one of its enduring icons. The production narrates his fateful meeting with undercover FBI agent Mildred Blauvelt, and their subsequent face-off before the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) in 1959.
The Talía Award is a distinguished prize that honors outstanding achievements in the Spanish-speaking performing arts community.
For the second consecutive year, the Queen Sofía Spanish Institute (QSSI) coordinated the Selection Committee of the category awarding Latino and Hispanic productions.
