PROJECT PROPOSAL

ACTING WORKSHOP AND STAGE PRODUCTION “MOVEMENTS IN MOVEMENT”:

Promoting theatre as a tool to raise awareness
on social challenges such as migration

Project Description
The project Acting Workshop and Stage Production “movements in movement”: Promoting theatre as a tool
to raise awareness on social challenges such as migration is a capacity building program that has consists of
an acting workshop taught by a theater expert of the highest level in the United States to prepare artistically
and technically a cast for the ensemble of Teatro Universitario de Honduras TUH, and the stage production of
the play “The Dream that never Sleeps”.
This workshop will give the participants the opportunity to develop their acting and technique skills in a
laboratory environment, with a consistent group of artists from the University environment and theater
students and actors from the National Theater Academy and diverse groups or theater in the city.

A variety of exercises will be developed with emphasis in voice and acting training, to encourage an aesthetic
and truthful delivery, text exploration, and developing characterization. Participants can choose from a
selection of scripts or bring in their own pieces. These workshops will increase and maintain the participant´s
confidence and ability to perform on stage and screen. The work with monologues and scene direction will
lead to achieve and understand the participant´s role and what the director is looking for, during a stage and
film production. This workshop runs over five days, and an interpreter will be hired, if needed.

About the play:

The Happy Land: The Dream that Never Sleeps roused as of an event which happened on March 24, 1990, in
the Bronx, New York, when a Cuban emigrant, after a discussion with her ex-girlfriend, a Honduran émigré,
provoked the fire of the Social Club "The Happy Land", eighty-seven persons were killed, Hondurans in the
majority. The fire of the Happy Land was one of the worst tragedies and represents one of the greatest
conflagrations of the last century in New York. Until the September 11th, it was the biggest massive murder
carried out in the city, and it is still considered among the most serious fires happened in the United States.

Goal
To promote spaces for research, analysis and reflection on the symbolic aspects, forms and cultural patterns
of migration and risk situations, strengthening the practices of citizen exchange and coexistence in Honduras.

Objective
To promote theater with artistic and aesthetic quality, as a platform to raise awareness about current
Honduran social and human challenges and support the reorganization of the historical “Teatro Universitario
de Honduras (TUH)”
Resume for project lead:
Tito Estrada, Actor and theatre director, Theater Career Coordinator –UNAH,
Email: tito.estrada@unah.edu.hn
mobile: +504 3191 0393

Actor and theatre director, researcher, and playwright. Lecturer at the Art Department of the Faculty of
Humanities and Arts-UNAH. Director of the Theatre Laboratory of Honduras TELAH. President of the National
Association for Art and Culture CONARTE. Coordinator in Honduras of the Centro Latinoamericano de
Creación e Investigación Teatral CELCIT. Member-Executive Committee of the Central American Theatre
Network. THE CARROMATO. Affiliated to the Honduran Community of Teatristas COMHTE. He studied at the
National Academy of Dramatic Art of Honduras and Theatre Program of New York University. Graduated from
the National School of Dramatic Art in Bogota, Colombia (1982). International School of Theatre Anthropology
ISTA (Germany 2000).

DISTINCTIONS
Nomination of the "Festival Tito Estrada" of the INTAE 1984. National Theatre Prize "José Trinidad Reyes"
1988. US-International Visitors Program. 1984. UNAH-Diploma of Honor for his contribution to the
Development of Science and Culture 1989. EXTRA Award - Best Director 2005. Hibueras Award 2007. Theatre.
European Union (Embassies of France, Germany, Spain)

INTERNATIONAL INVOLVEMENT
Colombia, USA, Guatemala, El Salvador, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Belize, Panamá, Spain, México, France, Perú,
Venezuela, Italy,

RESEARCH and PUBLICATIONS Author of several articles and essays. Among his research works are:
"Escenarios de dos Mundos": Inventario Teatral de Iberoamérica. Coordinator for Honduras section. Centro
de Documentación Teatral. INAEM. Ministry of Culture of Spain. 1987-88. "La Formación Teatral en España".
Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs. 1988. Collaboration with "El Guancásco" La Dramaturgia Indigenista en
América Latina 500 years later. Text by Manuel Chávez B. Edited by Beatriz Risk. TRAMOYA Theatre Notebook.
Universidad Veracruzana/Rutgers University-Camdem. N 33. Oct-Dec.92. "Taller de Teatro/Therapy Theater".
Day Hospital. Mario Mendoza Neuropsychiatric Hospital. Tegucigalpa 1993. "El Teatro en Honduras" Puppet
Theatre in Latin America. Bilbao Puppet Documentation Centre. 1995. "El Sueño que no Duerme" The tragic
comedy of migration (Essay: Dramaturgical Research on Migration). Science and Technology Magazine. UNAH
2003, "Hacia una Formación Teatral en la UNAH" Revista Ciencia y Tecnología. UNAH 2004. "Towards a
National Dramaturgy". Conference. Museum of National Identity. MIN 2007. Publication of the book "Teatro"
10 plays. 2008. "Caminante" Celcit. Dramática latinoamericana. N° 295. Argentina 1996. "Caminante" La
Dramaturgia Centroamericana. Beatriz Risk. TRAMOYA Theater Notebook. Universidad Veracruzana/Rutgers
University-Camdem. N°102. Jan-Mar.2010. "Retornado" Editorial Teatro Sin Paredes. Mexico 2018.