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...

  Theater: Musicals Zuccotti Park   As posted in Backstage : Casting notice expires:  January 10, 2015     Company: Salgado Productions Luis Salgado : Director/Choreographer, Heather Hogan : Production Supervisor  Production Description : Zuccotti Park a new musical by Catherine Hurd (book & lyrics) & Vatrena King (composer) will be part of the 2015 VENUS/ADONIS Theater Festival in NYC . Cooper, a soldier on leave from Afghanistan, meets up with former childhood neighbor, Kate, at Zuccotti Park, where she is part of the Occupy Protests. He gets caught up in a scuffle between protesters and police, and ends up in jail with Kate. Cooper soon discovers that Kate has changed quite a bit since their Iowa days, and they disagree on almost everything. Throughout the play, we learn the back-stories of the protesters as well as the points of view of people who profit f...