New Musical DESAPARECIDAS by Jaime Lozano and Florencia Cuenca to be Presented at JACK in December
DESPARECIDAS is told through Mexican folklore and explores the systematic oppression of women in the fight to end gender-based violence.
By: Chloe Rabinowitz Sep. 22, 2022
A new hispano-american collaboration is born between Mexican acclaimed musical theatre composer Jaime Lozano and Mexican producer Chema Verduzco. DESAPARECIDAS, a musical conceived by Lozano and Florencia Cuenca will shed light on the reality women still live in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico and around the globe. DESAPARECIDAS will have a short engagement at JACK starting December 2nd. Lyrics were composed by Jaime Lozano and Florencia Cuenca. Tickets are available for 20 dollars at https://www.jackny.org/desaparecidas.
In DESPARECIDAS Lozano was involved in the idea creation, music, lyrics along with Cuenca, who will direct the piece. Gabriela Garcia (choreography) and Jhoely Garay (music director) will team with Florencia Cuenca and Jaime Lozano to help the story come to life. This team, complemented by producer Chema Verduzco, form a new Mexico-American collaboration to bring the musical a voice. DESPARECIDAS is told through Mexican folklore and explores the systematic oppression of women in the fight to end gender-based violence and the killing of women and girls in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico. The women in Mexico and around the world will be given light to show the struggle to end gender-based violence and killing.
With a book by Georgina Escobar, DESPARECIDAS captures the challenge between embracing honored cultural customs while fighting for autonomy in a dangerous world filled with machismo. Magical and interwoven, it celebrates the individual lives of women in Mexico and can speak to women everywhere.
DESAPARECIDAS Performance Dates & Times:
Friday, December 2 at 7:30 pm
Saturday, December 3 at 7:30 pm
Sunday, December 4 at 2:00 pm
Friday, December 9 at 7:30 pm
Saturday, December 10 at 7:30 pm
Sunday, December 11 at 2:00 pm
Friday, December 16 at 7:30 pm
Saturday, December 17 at 7:30 pm
Sunday, December 18 at 2:00 pm
JACK
New York City
20 Putnam Ave in Brooklyn
C or G train to Clinton-Washington. Shuttle to Franklin Ave
For tickets, please visit...
https://www.jackny.org/desaparecidas
Chema Verduzco
(Producer) After his 20+ award nominated Mexican version of the musical thePROM, producer and director Chema Verduzco decides to venture producing in New York. Starting his Producing and directing career at the young age of 18, his titles include: CATS (2011), Elton John & Tim Rice's: AIDA (2012), West Side Story (2013), Pippin (2018), Once On This Island (2019), and thePROM (2021-2022). His most current production, thePROM, received 25 nominations including two nominations for BEST DIRECTOR OF A MUSICAL and two nominations for BEST MUSICAL in their 2021 season with the winners being announced this upcoming fall 2022. Chema also works for the Disneyland Resort in California and has choreographed two films for NYFA, Cinderpumpkin (2014) and Film School Musical (2015, official selection of Indienight Film Festival 2016).
Jaime Lozano
(Music and Lyrics) Considered by Lin-Manuel Miranda as the "next big thing" on Broadway. Joe's Pub Working Group 2020-2022. The Civilians R&D Group 2020-2021. JACK Resident Artist 2021. Selected works: Tlatelolco (Mexican Premiere), Myths (Mexican Premiere), El Otro Oz - formerly The Yellow Brick Road (Off-Broadway & National Tour), Carmen La Cubana (European Tour), Children of Salt(NYMF 2016 "Best of Fest" Production), A Never-Ending Line (Comédie Nation in Paris, France & Off-Broadway), Savage (UAB atBirmingham), Present Perfect (Live & In Color). Albums: Tlatelolco, R.Evolución Latina's Dare to Go Beyond, Doreen Montalvo's American Soul/Latin Heart, A Never-Ending Line, Jaime Lozano & The Familia: Songs by an Immigrant with liner notes by Lin-Manuel Miranda; these last three released by Broadway Records. Film: In The Heights (orchestrations). Currently working on: Songs by an Immigrant Vol. 2, Broadway in Spanglish and Desaparecidas. Jaime can be seen in Lin-Manuel Miranda's directorial feature film debut Tick, Tick... Boom! alongside other celebrated Broadway composers. BFA: Music & Composition, Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León; MFA: NYU/Tisch, Graduate Musical Theater Writing Program (Full Tuition Scholarship); part of the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theater Workshop. Proud member of the Dramatists Guild of America, AFM Local 802, BMI and GRAMMY and LatinGRAMMY voting member.
Florencia Cuenca
(Lyrics) Mexican actress, singer, writer and director based in New York City. She entered the artistic world at the age of three acting alongside her father in stadiums and theaters throughout Mexico and the USA. Back in Mexico she is known for telenovelas such as "De que te quiero te quiero," "Muchachitas como tú," "De Pocas, Pocas Pulgas," "Te Sigo Amando," "La Rosa de Guadalupe," "Como Dice el Dicho" and for being part of the successful Mexican musical Si Nos Dejan, the Mexican premiere of Shrek the Musical and Selena the Musical. Her first album Aquí - The New Standards, made her tour all around Mexico, Latin America and New York City, being awarded with the Hot House Jazz Award 2016 for Best New Jazz Artist. She has performed Off-Broadway in shows such as Children of Salt (NYMF 2016 Best of Fest) and A Never-Ending Line (album available at Broadway Records). Director selected credits: Estocolmo (Festival Alfonsino in Mexico), Tlatelolco (Teatro de los Héroes, Mexico), A Never-Ending Line (Mexico City). Currently she is working on her new album Broadway in Spanglish. She Is interested in developing projects that celebrate diversity and especially the Latinx and Hispanic community.
Georgina H. Escobar
(Book) Escobar is a queer Mexican playwright and maker of sci-femme narratives, ultra-humanistic mythos, and frontera-funk stories. She works textually and visually with plasticity, the impossible, and the Latin American perspective to create genre pieces with heart. Residencies include MacDowell, Djerassi, Fornés Workshop, and she is the recipient of the Darrell Ayers Playwriting and Outstanding Service to Women on the Border national awards. Her work has been featured in the Kilroy's List, 50PP, The Mix, and on print in The Texas Review, Lxs Bárbarxs, McSweeney's, and New Passport Press; appears in Scenes for Latinx Actors, Lighting The Way, and El Fuego: Fueling the American Theatre with Latinx Plays; and have been performed in México, US, UK, Sweden, Denmark and Italy. Her plays include Then they forgot about the Rest (Off-Broadway INTAR), Sweep (Lincoln Centers Director's Lab), StoneHeart (Kilroy's 2019), and Ash Tree (Darrel Ayers Award; ASSITEJ), and musicals including All Strings Considered (New York Children's Theatre), Firerock (LittleGlobe), and Little Duende (National Musical Theatre Conference at the O'Neill, NAMT). Artistic homes and presenters include INTAR, New York Children's Theatre, Dixon Place, Clubbed Thumb, Lincoln Center, Bushwick Starr, Two Rivers, Milagro, Aurora Theatre, and Marfa Live Arts. Escobar is represented by 3Arts Entertainment in Los Angeles and Bret Adams in NY.
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