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Objects time, Astoria was flooded with actors.
“Immediately I was drawn to Astoria,”
Almazan remembered. “I felt like I was at
home.”
Now, she is on a journey to create a play
cycle of 33 works – one for every Latin American
country. “It’s the largest play cycle ever
attempted by a North American playwright,”
she noted.
Her goal is for Latinx people to garner
more representation on stage and in film.
As a creative and spiritual person, Almazan
surrounds herself with tokens that represent
her theater work and honor her Spanish
heritage.
“I really wanted it to look like and feel like
my life – like what I have lived, what I value,”
Almazan explained.
Her two-bedroom home has an immediate
calming presence. She keeps the lights
dimmed, and the energy of the objects in
the living room is palpable.
Almazan’s “alter” sits in a far corner of the
living room. It’s a slanted ladder shelf covered
in mementos from family and friends.
On it sit sugar skulls, a crocheted cross
necklace, photographs of her grandparents’
graves, Cuban maracas, a tiny boat used in
one of her productions, dried flowers, a col