{"id":216,"name":"Gloria Zelaya","url":"http:\/\/www.felttheater.info","description":"Gloria Zelaya, Theater and Film Director, Actress, Producer. Acting coach.\r\n\r\nWhen we know what we want and we achieve it, that\u2019s when we start living. In Managua, Nicaragua. Ever since Gloria Zelaya was little, the spirits of the moon and the sun gave her the gifts of entertainment and creativity. From there on she knew that performing arts was in her blood. No matter what she made it possible.\r\n\r\nFate was definitely on her side as her education as framed around her dream. As a teenager she started taking dance classes and then her passion shifted to theater. She joined a theater group of the school of fine arts in Managua, then she was part of the National University of Nicaragua Theater unit. Given the opportunity to study theater in France, with a scholarship\r\nfrom the French government, went to the Strasburg Theater School and then L\u00e9cole de la Epee du Bois in Paris. There she was invited to do an internship with the \u201cTheater du Soleil Theater\u201d, she traveled with company to Italy with one of their productions.\r\n\r\nFrom there she made her way to New York City. Where she worked her way up at La Ma Ma Theatre ETC, from volunteer worker to paid actress. She later joined the Duo Theater where she participated as an actress and assistant director to many productions. Among them \u201cRasputin\u201d touring to South America and \u201cSwallows\u201d. She also studied with Agusto Boal of the Theater of the Oppressed, and then became a co-founder of the Theater of\r\nthe Oppressed Lab in NYC.\r\n\r\nShe has directed (two Summer Tours) and taught acting at the Puerto Rican Traveling Theatre. She has also collaborated with several other companies, including Intar Theater, La MaMa ETC, Mass Transit Theater, The Women\u2019s Project, Theater for the New City, New World Theater, Duo Theater, Urban\r\nYouth Theater (International Fringe Festival) She has presented at: Teatro Stage Fest (The Golden Cacao Bean), the Samuel Beckett Theater as part of the Evening Shades festival in NYC. \r\n \r\nDirected three Stage Readings for the Actors Studio P.D.U\r\n(Playwrights and Directors Unit). Her short play \u201cSubway Story\u201d was produced by SEA Theater and the Fantastic Experimental Fantastic Theater Inc for the festival Micro Theater. Her play \u201cTwo Sisters\u201d participated as a stage reader in Around the Block theater company.\r\n\r\nFor El Puente of Williamsburg:\r\nMs Zelaya has produced stage performances at the \u201cWEPA\u201d Street Festival in Williamsburg. Directed productions of the Three Kings and for Teatro El Puente, a youth theatre company dealing with social issues, which toured the city. She is the El Puente CADRE Coordinator a network of artists of Brooklyn,\r\n\r\nAWARDS and ACTIVE PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS:\r\nPlaywrights and Directors Unit of the Actors Studio.\r\nAdvisory Board oF HOLA.\r\nFantastic Experimental Latino Theatre, (FELT) Artistic Producing Director\r\nAround The Block - President of the Board, co-artistic Director. Playwriting Circle member.\r\nBest Director ACE Award in 2006 for the French Comedy The Little Hut (Latin American Theater Ensemble). HOLA. Best Director of childrens play \u201cThe Cue Bird\u201d\r\n\r\nTRAINING\r\n\u2022Voice Over Technique, Manuel Herrera. \u2022 Augusto Boal Theater Workshops, New York\r\n\u2022Young Filmmakers, New York\u2013Television Studies. \r\n\u2022Brooklyn College, NewYork\r\n\u2022Charles Dullin School of Dramatique Arts, Paris, France\r\n\u2022School of Theatre, Strasburg, France","link":"https:\/\/performingartslegacy.org\/zelayagloria\/author\/zelayagloria\/","slug":"zelayagloria","avatar_urls":{"24":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/68182a25b7d5c43040a16813c59e23f2cbc25be9ebe3f9ddb0a75c8dd1ac3ae8?s=24&d=blank&r=g","48":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/68182a25b7d5c43040a16813c59e23f2cbc25be9ebe3f9ddb0a75c8dd1ac3ae8?s=48&d=blank&r=g","96":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/68182a25b7d5c43040a16813c59e23f2cbc25be9ebe3f9ddb0a75c8dd1ac3ae8?s=96&d=blank&r=g"},"meta":{"lasso_hide_tour":["1"]},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/performingartslegacy.org\/zelayagloria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/performingartslegacy.org\/zelayagloria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users"}]}}