Event

Long Island Iced Latina

Marga Gomez in "Long Island Iced Latina"
(Seen on LOGO, HBO, Comedy Central)

"Long Island Iced Latina" is award-winning performer Marga Gomez's hilariously dark memoir of her four years as the only brown girl in a white high school. It's also a testament to her determination to reclaim the Latino culture that she lost. The show is also an intoxicating manifesto for Latinos who can't speak Spanish, suck at Salsa, and suffer from Blonditis. "We're everywhere." Gomez claims "And we vote!"

"Long Island Iced Latina" played to full houses at Miami's South Beach Comedy Festival , Off_Broadway at New York's Teatro Latino Festival, The National Hispanic Cultural Center in Albuquerque and The Chicago Humanities Festivals, as well as numerous university engagements.

"Amazing" Robin Williams
"Deliciously cheeky" New York Times

There will be an optional 10-15 min Q&A shortly after the show ends.

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"Long Island Iced Latina" is the first show in Teatro del Pueblo's "Latina Feminista" Series. Please see www.teatrodelpueblo.org for additional information about Marga Gomez and upcoming "Latina Feminista" productions.

Teatro del Pueblo gratefully acknowledges funding support from The Carolyn Foundation, The Metropolitan Regional Arts Council and Arts Midwest.

This engagement is supported by the Arts Midwest Touring Fund, a program of Arts Midwest, which is generously supported by the National Endowment for the Arts with additional contributions from the Minnesota State Arts Board.