Saturday, October 24, 2009

Gregg Barrios Presents...

MEDIA ADVISORY
Contact: Lorraine Pulido (210) 410-6699

Playwright Gregg Barrios Presents Excerpts from “Rancho Pancho”
Event Part of TeatroFest

WHO: Gregg Barrios, Playwright; Diane Malone, Director; Rick Frederick, Actor; and Annella Keys, Actor

WHAT: Excerpts from “Rancho Pancho” and Book Signing – Part of the Guadalupe’s month-long TeatroFest“Rancho Pancho,” a two-act play, explores the turbulent and passionate relationship between playwright Tennessee Williams and lover Pancho Rodriguez, who inspired the character of Stanley Kowalski in A Street Car Named Desire. “Rancho Pancho” follows their relationship from the summer of 1946 on Nantucket Island with novelist Carson McCullers to the summer of 1947 in Provincetown with director Margo Jones, aspiring actor Marlon Brando and the final break up of Williams and Rodriguez.

WHEN: Monday, Oct. 26, 2009, 7:30 p.m. FREE

WHERE: Guadalupe Theater, 1301 Guadalupe St.

About Gregg Barrios
Gregg Barrios received a commission from the Ford Foundation Gateway Program to write “Rancho Pancho.” His Dark Horse, Pale Rider, a play about Texas writer Katherine Anne Porter received a CTG-Mark Taper Forum Fellowship. His one-man show I-DJ was awarded a grant from the Sandra Cisneros Macondo Foundation, and its script was published in Ollantay, the Hispanic Theater Quarterly in 2008.

About The Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center
The Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization founded in 1980 to preserve, promote and develop the arts and culture of the Chicano/Latino/Native American peoples for all ages and backgrounds through public and educational programming in six disciplines: dance, literature, media arts, theater arts, visual arts and music. For more information, visit www.guadalupeculturalarts.org or call 210-271-3151.