Ángel Vázquez

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Vazquez's one-man-show titled "This Side Story" is about our steep, but glorious story. In the monologue, the protagonist encounters the story about different Puerto Rican historical figures of la diaspora in different times and exposes their contributions: Abolitionists, activists against racism, protests, gentrification, suffragettes who advanced women’s rights, and pioneers of gay movement. All of this and more: "The struggle to keep our cultural roots alive, our puertorriqueňidad. Soy Boricua! This Side Story" seeks to entertain, amaze, educate and inspire the old and new generations and unite us. Vazquez uses CENTRO resources to support and inform his writing and staging of the piece.

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Ángel Vázquez is an experienced and well-known actor, playwright, and director. He has worked in theater, television, radio, and film in his native Island with such artists as Ricky Martin, Antonio Banderas, Selena Gomez, and Sylvester Stallone, among others. He has been the most active actor in the last 21 years at the Universities circuit in Puerto Rico. As a writer, Angel specializes in social themes, as his previous work show: "Puertorro University" (Education), and "Macho Menos" (Domestic Violence), and "Hecho en Puelto Rico." The latter monologue has had 135 shows and more than 33,000 have seen it, from the schools in the Maricao’s mountains after Hurricane Maria, to the stage at the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in NYC. He has been called ‘the ambassador of Puerto Rican Culture’.

Tour poster for Hecho En Puelto Rico
Angel Vazquez. Hecho En Puelto Rico 2022 Tour, 2022. Twitter Announcement. @AngelPapoVazqu2
Poster for Hecho En Puelto Rico from 2019.
Angel Vazquez. Hecho En Puelto Rico - A Historic Magical Comedy, 2019. Twitter Announcement. @AngelPapoVazqu2
Poster for "This Side Story"
Angel Vazquez. This Side Story Poster, 2022. Digitally edited photograph. Courtesy of the artist.