Broadway World Review: Abre Camino Collective And Broadway Factor's AMPARO

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“The five tracks and the over 20 different actors that take the audience on their individual journeys make the AMPARO creative team, playwright Vanessa Garcia and director Victoria Collado, mad geniuses.”

BroadwayWorld Interview: Vanessa Garcia And Victoria Collado of AMPARO

Speaking to the creators of AMPARO, Vanessa and Victoria, felt as easy as talking to family friends since we have a common story, Cuba. Yet, this story transcends Cuba. It transcends Miami. This story is about immigrants who were kicked out of their country and taken advantage of by their government. Yet, those immigrants never lost their resolve.

Bacardi recently produced a 'Sleep no More'-like live experience recreating 1950s Cuba - take an exclusive look inside

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“Bacardi recently produced a 'Sleep no More'-like live experience recreating 1950s Cuba - take an exclusive look inside” —

City Lyric Opera 2018-19 Review: La Tragédie de Carmen

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“Director Victoria Collado set the stage for a deadly power struggle between a confident, beautiful, and intelligent woman, and an insecure, volatile, and unstable man.”

By Chris Ruel

NYC Theatre Festival to Feature Miami Playwright, Director, and Actors —

The play, written by Miami playwright Vanessa Garcia, will be directed by FIU graduate, Victoria Collado and performed by Tanya Bravo, Lorenzo Gutierrez, David Perez-Ribada, and Reza Salazar. Collado, Perez-Ribada and Gutierrez are all Miami natives who now live and work in NYC.

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Victoria Collado graduated in 2012 with a BFA Performance degree. After graduating, she chose to stay in Miami where she wrote, directed, and performed for Micro Theater Miami, JQ Studio, and ArtSpoken Performing Arts Center. In 2013, Victoria decided to enter the New York International Fringe Festival, in the hopes that her show on famous Cuban singer, La Lupe, would be selected. 

ALUMNI SPOTLIGHT VICTORIA COLLADO, FIU THEATRE

Victoria Collado (Class of ’12) never imagined that she would be in New York City directing for a theatre house like Repertorio Español, but that is exactly what this BFA performance alumna is currently doing. When Victoria graduated two years ago, she chose to stay in Miami where she wrote, directed and performed for Micro Theatre Miami, collaborated with fellow graduates Melissa Ann Hubicsak and Michelle Antelo at The JQ Studio and worked for ArtSpoken Performing Arts Center in Little Havana. 

The Amparo Experience Tells the Cuban Exile Story in an Immersive Theater Production

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“Collado stands to the side of the room as her actors spill into the theater like water flows from a fallen cup, together at first and then spreading out like veins. In the middle of the scene, she stops an actor from completing his line. Clutching a half-burnt palo santo, she uses her hands to illustrate her point.”

“The Amparo Experience, an Interactive Play Telling the True Story of Exiled Cuban Rum Makers, Is Miami’s Hottest Ticket”

The Amparo Experience is an immersive play that tells the story of the Arechabala family, the makers of the original Havana Club rum, who were forced into exile after the Cuban Revolution.

“Amparo”, una zambullida en la Cuba de los últimos 60 años con gusto a ron

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En un café de la Calle 8, la vía principal de la Pequeña Habana miamense, directora, autora y los principales actores se presentaron este martes a los periodistas, que pudieron conocer por adelantado algunas escenas de esta obra que se estrenará el 4 de abril y degustar algunos cócteles que se servirán en cada función, como el Habana Especial que estaba de moda en 1957.

Miami New Drama's The Cubans Puts First-Generation Cuban-Americans Center Stage

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“Collado says the importance of understanding one another is The Cubans' most important theme. Fresh off directing the successful The Amparo Experience, which ran seven months and also told a story familiar to Cuban-Americans in Miami, she approached her work on The Cubans with a slightly different viewpoint from that of her previous work.”

Miami Herald Reviews ‘The Cubans’

“I got tired of going to the theater and not seeing myself and my family represented. We deserve more. I felt compelled to start creating something, not for me but for my community,” Michael Leon, actor says.

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After bouts of laughter, anger, tears, and endless jokes, we realized we couldn’t keep this to ourselves.  Other girls out there needed to know they are not alone in this.

Pandiani’s “That Rebel That” deals with the affects of love — Panther Now

When looking for a director, Pandiani immediately thought of Victoria Collado, an alumnus of the University, because of her unique and powerful statement as a director and as an actor.

“She has taken my script to another level; the ingredients were there but she’s mixing them in a different way. I wrote it and am acting in it, so it’s been interesting to see, during rehearsals, how the vision I had and Vicki’s process are uniting,” said Pandiani.