The Journey to Art With A Purpose

Driving the action forward This is my second Festival production as a director in less than a year. Developing a new musical theatre piece is always an adventure and being part of the Venus/Adonis Theater Festival this year is feeling more and more like a blessing. I feel like I am back in college! It's been a great adventure and an educational journey. In the past few years I have been able to create and develop some really big projects including the Peruvian success Candela: Fuerza y Pasion  and Aniversario Sin Cuenta. But there is something unique about the making of original musical theatre with a really tight budget in a city like NY. I think the key is to focus on what really matters, THE STORY and then driving the action forward. The Journey starts with the writers It's super important to develop a healthy communication with the creators of the show. It's their baby that they have trusted me and my company with it, so RESPECTING their material and being...

Week one…What a fantastic journey it has been. I feel like the investment in HUMAN POTENTIAL is worth EVERYTHING IN ART. I might be wrong, I might fail at times when trying new ideas but I am not afraid to do so. I can’t afford to be afraid and that’s the beauty of it. Art has given me EVERYTHING I AM. I really mean that.  It’s my best professor, it’s my everyday college and it is in many ways my religion. I have said this many times and each day I find myself closer and closer to what is relevant to me... the making of ART WITH A PURPOSE. And NO, this is not just a slogan for  Salgado Productions, it REALLY IS a way of making ART. I have mixed two specific philosophies that have taken over my blood and every cell of my body.  DARING to Go Beyond in every opportunity. To explore for MYSELF and for the story I am bound to tell with a group of ARTISTS and for the place I am at TODAY. Exploring, not in comparison to anything or anyone but solely for the proce...