Zilah mendoza biography of williams
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Zilah Mendoza was born in Salt Lake City, but was raised on the beaches of Southern California and the deserts of Arizona. She began her professional acting career at an early age in both television and theatre. Her first professional play was with Bryan Cranston of Breaking Bad in the play Eastern Standard Time. One of her first experiences on a sit-com was working with Kevin James, Leah Remini, Anne Meara and Jerry Stiller on the King of Queens. She has originated many characters in the contemporary theatre, working with such powerhouse writers as Lisa Loomer (Girl Interrupted) , Sarah Ruhl (Pulitzer Nominated), Luis Alfaro (Prada to Nada), Billy Corbin(Cocaine Cowboys) and Aurin Squire (This is Us). In her spare time, she loves to read new scripts and historical fiction, to travel, to learn about new cultures and to spend time with her family and friends. Zilah was awarded the OBIE for outstanding lead performance in Lisa Loomer's Living Out as well as the Lucille Lortel a
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Stage Play Based On 'Cocaine' Documentary
James Cubby
Photographer:
Billy Corben, filmmaker.
 In 2006, I wrote a feature for a local publication about a then-recently released documentary âCocaine Cowboysâ that chronicled the era of the Miami drug war of the 1970s and 1980s.
It was a dangerous time in Miamiâs history triggered by the 1979 Dadeland shootout where two men were gunned down in a liquor store in broad daylight. The killers were labeled as âCocaine Cowboysâ by a police officer. Soon Miami became known as the âDrug Capital of the World.â The acclaimed documentary âCocaine Cowboysâ became the highest-rated documentary ever on the Showtime cable network. Billy Corben, director/producer of âCocaine Cowboysâ and âCocaine Cowboys 2â has now joined forces with award-winning playwright/journalist Aurin Squire to create a stage play based on the award-winning documentary series by Miami-based studio Rakontur.
The production for Miami
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Still Life
Portrait of Frida Kahlo and Georgia O’Keeffe
Tucson: Sunday , January 23, 2011 @ 3p.m.
a brief description
“I feel there is something unexplored about woman that only a woman can explore.”
Georgia O’Keeffe
“I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best.”
Frida Kahlo
Frida Kahlo
Harry Clark:“I had a tremendous time dipping into the lives and art of Georgia O’ Keeffe (OK) and Frida Kahlo (FK). Like two wary prize fighters, they’d circle one another for a long time before revealing themselves. So what would they share at the beginning? Early childhood memories: FK’s imaginary friend; OK’s Wisconsin dollhouse. Recipes: OK’s applesauce; FK’s pumpkin flower quesadilla. Then their love of country and place, and on to their men and muses—Diego Rivera and Alfred Stieglitz. And finally, they’d get rip-roaring drunk on pulche and tequila shots and reveal the rest.”
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