Upcoming productions!
FALL 2023
Picasso por Cornelia Cody; dirigida y coreografiada por Elena Velasco
GALA Hispanic
Abriendo 14 de Octubre
https://www.galatheatre.org/post/picasso
BSU DEVISED THEATRE
Bowie State University Theatre
Opens November 8, 2023
2024
Men on Boats by Jaclyn Backhaus
Co-directed by KenYatta Rogers and Elena Velasco; intimacy direction by Elena Velasco
University of Maryland
Opens March 1, 2024
https://theclarice.umd.edu/events/2024/men-on-boats
Picasso por Cornelia Cody; dirigida y coreografiada por Elena Velasco
GALA Hispanic
Abriendo 14 de Octubre
https://www.galatheatre.org/post/picasso
BSU DEVISED THEATRE
Bowie State University Theatre
Opens November 8, 2023
2024
Men on Boats by Jaclyn Backhaus
Co-directed by KenYatta Rogers and Elena Velasco; intimacy direction by Elena Velasco
University of Maryland
Opens March 1, 2024
https://theclarice.umd.edu/events/2024/men-on-boats
Arco Iris. Featuring Diana Gonzalez Ramirez (L), Audra Jacobs (CS) and Camilo Linares (R). Photo credit: Ryan Maxwell Photography.
Arco Iris - Theatre for the Very Young
Conceived, choreographed and directed by Elena Velasco
Arts on the Horizon, Alexandria, VA
Opens June 9, 2023
https://www.artsonthehorizon.org/2022-23-season.html
In the Heights by Quiara Alegría Hudes y Lin-Manuel Miranda
Directed by Elena Velasco, choreographed by Stefan Sittig
NextStop Theatre, Herndon, VA
May-June 2023
www.nextstoptheatre.org/intheheights
"NextStop Theatre’s ‘In the Heights’ is sheer theatrical excellence...one of the most vibrant, engrossing, and well-produced smaller professional theater productions I’ve had the opportunity to see in a long time." - Alexandra Brown, DC Theatre Arts. https://dctheaterarts.org/2023/06/02/nextstop-theatres-in-the-heights-is-sheer-theatrical-excellence/
Mojada de Luis Alfaro
Dirección y coreografía de Elena Velasco
1st Stage, Tyson Corner, VA
April-May 2023
1ststage.org/season-20222023
Alma de Benjamin Benne
Dirección de Elena Velasco
Central Square Theatre, Cambridge, MA
Now playing through March 26, 2023
www.centralsquaretheater.org/shows/alma/
La Llamada de Sylvia Méndez: Separate is Never Equal
de Cornelia Cody
Dirección y coreografía de Elena Velasco
GALA Hispanic Theatre
3333 14th Street NW
Washington, DC 20010
www.galatheatre.org/post/separate-is-never-equal-2?lang=es
In the Heights. Featuring Scean Flowers, Graciela Rey, and Chris Rios. Photo credit: Joseph Edwards Photography.
Synetic Digital Feature:
The Decameron
Produced by Synetic Theater
synetictheater.org/event_pages/the-decameron/
"Elena Velasco is a strong local director and performer in her own right and brings to this fellowship that is Synetic her most serious lens on theatre for social justice....The work is full of restrained sorrow and rage." - Susan Galbraith, DC Theatre Scene.
dctheatrescene.com/2020/07/12/review-synetic-theaters-the-decameron-day-three-from-somber-to-sexy/
The Decameron
Produced by Synetic Theater
synetictheater.org/event_pages/the-decameron/
"Elena Velasco is a strong local director and performer in her own right and brings to this fellowship that is Synetic her most serious lens on theatre for social justice....The work is full of restrained sorrow and rage." - Susan Galbraith, DC Theatre Scene.
dctheatrescene.com/2020/07/12/review-synetic-theaters-the-decameron-day-three-from-somber-to-sexy/
Óyeme, the Beautiful
A work by Miriam Gonzales, chronicling the lives of immigrant students seeking asylum.
Original direction and choreography by Elena Velasco