This year, the music-filled awards ceremony is divided into two parts. When you divide between men and women, some members of the theater community are left out. “For instance, we have non-gendered acting categories. It’s a lot to do in one night, but we have to remember it’s more than giving out awards, it’s an opportunity to stop and look at the community. “It’s great and amazing to celebrate our community and its artistry, but it’s tricky to have everyone heard and appreciated. “I was just saying to my wife, these kinds of things are not easy to orchestrate,” Twyford continues. And while Twyford understands the show’s inherent excitement and spontaneity, she’s also aware of the challenges involved in creating a successful evening. She’s also the recipient of multiple Helen Hayes Awards and so many nominations it’s been written into Monday night’s show. She’s been attending the awards since the early ‘90s, and remembers meeting the late “first lady of American theater” for whom the Awards are named, and shaking her hand. Undeniably, Twyford brings a lot of experience to the gig. Not in a scary way, but more as a form of energy and love. Really, I’m just very lucky and thankful to be onstage because that’s my favorite place in the world to be.īLADE: And finally, do you believe in ghosts? I came at the beginning of the pandemic, so it’s been amazing to watch the city come back to life. Let’s just say I’m transitioning.Īfter three years in town, I’m still learning the theater scene. It’s easier for me to act in Spanish but I love working in English too. SALINAS: Last year I was cast in my first English speaking play “La Llorona” at Capitol Hill Arts Workshop. It premiered at the International Latino Theater Festival 2022 in Chicago.īLADE: Talk about Spanish versus English for you. SALINAS: I’m going to do my play “La Pájara de San Juan,” a Trump-era drama about two sisters, one documented, one not, at the Mexican Cultural Institute in September in Spanish with English surtitles. I really want to bring it to Washington.īLADE: Anything else you’d like to do here? It was onstage for more than three years in Mexico City. SALINAS: Yes, it’s about love and relationships (trans, straight, gay, platonic, familial), and features four actors playing seven roles each in 17 short vignettes. Definitely the best-case scenario.īLADE: You also write. She cried, blamed herself, and promised to continue to love and support me, and she has. I came out to my mother when I had my first boyfriend at seventeen. I always was true to myself and very comfortable. Growing up in Mexico City, I started acting classes at age six and did my first play when I was ten.
I made a very convincing Romeo in Chicago. I’ve played straight characters without issue. That helps to construct characters in a sensitive and different way. Being gay has made me observant and given me the experience to connect with feelings and emotion. It’s like I started to be my true self without distractions or numbness.īLADE: How does your sexuality impact your work? That choice changed my life, and my relationships in many ways. SALINAS: If it had happened 15 years ago, we would surely have collided, but if it happened today, we’d likely be on the same page.īLADE: You mentioned that you’ve been sober for 14 years. I have a younger brother who is an engineer.īLADE: Could you two survive a clash similar to what the sisters undergo in “Valor”? Trini brings in a pair of ghost impersonators (the Specter Brothers) to scare her sister out, while Guada tries to keep the place going with Airbnb guests Martín and Martina, a period-dressed brother and sister with a vested interest in the house. When discordant sisters Trini and Guada can’t agree on what to do with the old family manse situated uncomfortably close to a loud highway, each hatches a slightly hair-brained plan. “Valor” is a farce involving family, property, and ghosts. More work has followed: earlier this year he played the ambitious young lawyer in “Jardín salvaje (Native Gardens),” and now he joins a terrific cast including GALA stalwarts Luz Nicolás and Carlos Castillo in Spanish playwright Alfredo Sanzol’s raucous ghost story “La Valentía (Valor).” Things kicked off in 2021 when GALA asked him to take over a supporting role in their production of “La Tía Julia y el escribidor (Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter),” Mario Vargas Llosa’s comedy about the final days of radio drama in 1950s Peru.
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