![]() Victoria has been the only woman in the room often, as a director - it hasn’t always been fun having a “dude” watching over her shoulder, as if she couldn’t do her job (I’m sure all women can relate to this).Īlright, so let’s switch gears a bit and talk business. Until she realized that keeping rejections around was like keeping Potpourri around - better to have fresh flowers and toss the bad karma out the window. Vanessa used to have a bag full of writing rejections (back when rejections came in the mail and not digitally). We, like all artists, have faced rejection. We both have memories of empty pockets, bank accounts, negatives, “in-the-reds,” risk-all-moments and jump-and-the-net-will-appear years. We stand on the shoulders of others that came before us, but we’ve also cut a lot of brush along the way, put in good walking paths, and made the path smoother for ourselves and for others. So we’ve had our fare share of bumps.Īctually, if we’re totally truthful, ours has been a combination of both smooth and unpaved roads. We all face challenges, but looking back would you describe it as a relatively smooth road? ![]() This is our calling, our purpose, and our responsibility. In the process, we do this by building teams that are families - invigorating them from a place of mission, not just craft. We believe in creating worlds and universes that reflect our truths, who we are, and what we feel the world does not yet know but needs to. It’s doing this across mediums that connect like constellations of the same sky. We’ve produced, written, and directed plays around the world from Edinburgh to Amsterdam, New York City to Miami Los Angeles to Little Rock.Īs a collective, Abre Camino is comprised of visual, theater, film, literary, and performing artists redefining the American narrative through radical storytelling.įor us radical storytelling means using our own voice to tell our stories instead of having others tell it for us. Together, we, as the two founding members of ACC, have assistant directed John Leguizamo’s Latin History For Morons on Broadway and taken him on tour (Victoria), written for Sesame Street and Caillou (Vanessa), won an International Latino Book Award and been on NPRs Best Books of 2015 (Vanessa), written for the LA Times, The Washington Post, The Miami Herald, ESPN, The Hill, and numerous other publications (Vanessa), and been called Best Director of 2020 by Miami New Times (Victoria). Them and their team share their story with us below: Today we’d like to introduce you to Victoria Collado and Vanessa Garcia.
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