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Paola Alexandra Soto: 2023-2024 ARTIST IN RESIDENCE

 

Every year ¡Oye Group! provides a fellowship opportunity for one or two artists to dig in and develop new and exciting work. The course of the fellowship is theirs to decide while ¡Oye! Group supports the artist by providing the following: 

  • Financial support

  • Rehearsal space for the writing/development of one work 

  • Administrative and production support 

  • Meetings with the ¡Oye! Group’s Artistic Director to provide guidance, advice, or any other support the artist feels necessary. 

We are excited to introduce Paola Alexandra Soto our Artist In Residence for our 2023-2024 season. 

 
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Meet the Artist

 

Paola

Alexandra Soto

Paola Alexandra Soto is an award-winning playwright, creative producer, director, and actress who was born in the Dominican Republic and raised in Harlem. Currently, she’s the Creative Producer and Project Manager of The Obie Awards. She recently earned her MFA in Playwriting at Columbia University School of the Arts. Paola Alexandra is the Creative Producer for TONY Award Winner Lemon Andersen’s new original solo show When Aliens Fall From The Sky, which had its World Premiere at Arizona State University Gammage. She’s also the Associate Director of the digital short film for the show’s prologue and the co-creator of the PlaySonos: A Digital Audio Play Festival at Columbia University School of the Arts. Most recently her full-length D’ Carnaval received a reading as part of the Vision Residency program at Ars Nova and she received the Northern Manhattan Arts Alliance Individual Artist Grant. Her writing credits include La Sosa Sisters, Lucha Libre, a one-act version of the play that was translated into Mandarin and performed by students at the Shanghai Theatre Academy. Her one-act play On The 1 Train won the Jacob Weiser Playwriting Award. She is a Broadway Advocacy Coalition Theater of Change Fellow. 

 
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Reading of La Sosa Sisters

Paola Alexandra Soto's full-length play La Sosa Sisters was part of the School of the Arts New Play Festival 2022, before that, it was a finalist for the Columbia@Roundabout 2021 New Play Reading series, and most recently it received a micro-development grant from the National Black Theater.

About the Play

After their Mami passes away, Manita and Rosita deal with it in very different ways. Manita feels haunted by their mother, while Rosita seems to be living her best life. Until Mami’s younger sister, Miri, with her fresh new Green Card, arrives in NYC ready to start a new life while still tightly hanging on to the past. In the midst of burying their Mami, Rosita, and Manita have to deal with the family secrets that they dig up. La Sosa Sisters deals with what it means to belong to a family that is separated by space and time. 

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CAST

 
 
 

*member of Actor’s Equity

 
 
 
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