Gilda starred in Edward Gallardo’s play “Women Without Men” at the Public Theater as part of the Festival Latino in 1985.
Mel Gussow of the New York Times reviewed the play. (See: https://www.nytimes.com/1985/08/10/theater/theater-women-without-men-by-gallardo.html).
“The head of the work force, the oldest of the women, is Orquidea, a dominant matriarch who rules the workers as she does her adult daughter (also a worker). As played by Gilda Miròs, this is a rigid woman of the old school, striking a moralistic pose. She cannot forget that the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor on a Sunday. ‘The infidels!’ she exclaims.
At the same time that she subjugates her daughter (Socorro Santiago) to her will and spurns her son’s widow and child (he had the audacity, by her measure, to marry a black woman), she goes her own merry way toward remarriage with the man who abused her children. Gradually, it is clear that the mother has a monstrous streak. With careful self-control, Miss Miròs never becomes melodramatic.”
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Gilda in Costume as Orquidea
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Playbill from the Public Theater
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A signed picture to Gilda from the director
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Production still from Gilda and the ‘Women’
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Write up about the show in The Villager Downtown
The Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History is working to document and tell the story of Spanish-language broadcasting in the U.S. with an emphasis on television, as part of a new initiative, “Escuchame: the History of Spanish Language Broadcasting in the U.S.” Materials from the career of New York-based broadcaster, theater and screen actress and author Gilda Mirós were recently added to the national collections. Born in Puerto Rico, Mirós worked with numerous radio and television stations including WADO-AM, WJIT-AM radio stations in New York; WXTV-TV, Channel 41 (Univision) and WNJU-TV, Channel 47 (Telemundo), both in the New York area. While working for the Spanish Broadcasting System at WQBA-AM Miami, she hosted the first national live daily show to run simultaneously in New York and Los Angeles from Florida. Recently Puerto Rican Studies/Hunter/CUNY posted her oral history, and created the Gilda Mirós file in their archives, available to the public.
Raised in the Bronx, Gilda has done films, theatre, television, in Mexico, Puerto Rico and the USA. Her NYC radio programs transmitted from and to Latin America/Spain. Produced & narrated documentaries including: Viet Nam War/Hispanics in NYC Prisons; "March of Dimes"/"The Eye Bank of NYC.” Dubbed "Mother Angelica Live" EWTN. Mirós has 12 books "Celia Cruz & Sonora Matancera" (2003 Ebook/Soft/Audio 2017); "A Portrait of Puerto Rico" (2005); "Hortense and Her Happy Ducklings" Bilingual children's (2006); "Memorias De Los Espiritus y MI Madre" (2009); "Spirit Messages To My Mother" (2010); "Mystical Wings; "Alas Místicas (201; “In Touch With Mom in Spirit” “¡En Contacto Con Mami en Espiritu ,“De La Montaǹa Venimos – Ìconos Latinoamericanos.” (2017 Ebook/Soft/Audio 2016. "Poetisas de Hispanoamericana" (2016 Audio). Presently Produces "Latin Icons Past & Present" for All Access Cable TV, NYC.
