Meet the Collaborators
Cynthia Santos DeCure
Cynthis Santos DeCure is a bilingual actor, voice and dialect coach. She is an Assistant Professor Adjunct of Acting at Yale University, School of Drama, certified in both Knight-Thompson Speechwork® and as an Associate Teacher of Fitzmaurice Voicework®. Voice and dialect coach credits include Orange is the New Black (Netflix), The Affair (Showtime), El Huracan at Yale Rep, I Come from Arizona at Children’s Theatre of Minneapolis, In The Heights at Phoenix Theater and Chance Theater, Shelter at Center for New Performance/CalArts, and The Long Road Today/Diálogos at South Coast Repertory. Shakespeare work includes The Tempest at Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum, Henry V at Knightsbridge Theatre, and A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Twelfth Night and The Tempest at Long Beach Shakespeare. Cynthia is amember of AEA, SAG/AFTRA. Her credits include The Mambo Kings, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, Days of Our Lives, The Bold & The Beautiful, General Hospital, All My Children, and numerous commercials. Cynthia co-edited Scenes for Latinx Actors: Voices of the New American Theatre. Her chapter, “La Voz de Shakespeare: Empowering Latinx Communities to speak, own and embody Shakespeare’s texts,” is included in the upcoming book, Shakespeare and Latinidad (Edited Carla Della Gatta and Trevor Buffone) Edinburgh University Press, 2021.
Juliana Morales Carreño
Juliana Morales Carreño is an interdisciplinary performing artist and co-founder of Anfibia Teatro, a theater company and cultural enterprise based in Bogotá, Colombia. I studied History and Literature with a minor in Theater Studies at the Universidad de los Andes. I trained as an actress and director with Hernán Pico, Pedro Salazar, Juan Luna, and maestro Alain Maratrat. Throughout my professional career, I have worked in various theater and operatic fields, including directing, acting, producing, and writing plays. In 2020, she won the New Creators Cycle in the directing phase of Teatro la Maldita Vanidad and the Guanábana Scholarship for Performing Arts Entrepreneurship from Teatro Varasanta and IDARTES. Credits include: Pedro Páramo (2014), directed by Hernán Pico; Tosca (2021), a co-production of the Teatro Mayor Julio Mario Santo Domingo, directed by Pedro Salazar; As One (2022), an opera that won the Ópera al Parque 2021 Scholarship; Señorita Julia (2021), directed by Mariana Parejo; and Solo Mia (2020) by Juanpablo Gómez, a work I directed at the Teatro la Maldita Vanidad. She is currently pursuing a Master's degree in Directing from the David Geefen School of Drama at Yale University.Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.
Gretta Marston-Lari.
This is Gretta’s first time performing with Elm Shakespeare. Other Credits include: NYC- The Skeleton Rep : Floating Girls Go to the Moon (Isa), LIMA, PERÚ - Del Barrio Producciones: La Esq uina de La Cumbia (Elsa), and MINNEAPOLIS, MN, Dapper Purple Plushie Co (Emma). Gretta currently attends the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale, completing an MFA in Acting. She has a Bachelors in Theater & Dance (and Latin American Studies) from Macalester College (MN, USA) and completed her acting training at “El Taller Formación Actoral de Roberto Ángeles” (Lima, Perú).
Erik Robles
Erik Robles is a proud Afro-Latino actor born and raised in Providence, Rhode Island, currently in his second-year as an M.F.A. candidate at the David Geffen School of Drama for acting at Yale. Recent credits: The Care & Keeping of You, Rent Free (DGSD); Much Ado About Nothing (Commonwealth Shakespeare); Sweat, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Ironbound (Gamm Theatre); Burning Patience (Martha’s Vineyard Playhouse). Erik is grateful for Elm Shakespeare Company in facilitating this event and indebted to Cynthia Santos Decure for her relentless dedication to her students and for her commitment to amplifying latino voices.
Marlon Vargas
Marlon Vargas* is an actor in his third year at David Geffen School of Drama, where credits include Kilelé (Viajero), Tempt Me (Animal), Cleansed (Rod ),The Alley (Richard), Grand Concourse (Oscar), littleboy/littleman (Fito), Hot & Cold (Narrator/Willie), and Titus Andronicus (Quintus/Publius). He has been awarded the Wesley Fata Scholarship, 2022, the Eugene F. Shewmaker and Robert L. Hurtgen Scholarship Fund, 2023, and the Jerome L. Greene Fellow, 2024. He holds a Bachelors of Arts in Multimedia Journalism from Loyola University in Chicago.
Francisco Miranda Zerpa
Francisco (any pronouns) is an actor and verbatim theatre maker from Caracas, Venezuela. He is currently a second year in the MFA Acting program at Yale School of Drama. His latest production at Yale, Kilele, was featured on Connecticut NPR. Francisco also teaches for a living. He is a 2022 alum of NYU Tisch, where he studied with Anna Deavere Smith.
We wish to express our gratitude to the Performers’ Unions:,
ACTORS’ EQUITY ASSOCIATION, AMERICAN GUILD OF MUSICAL ARTISTS, AMERICAN GUILD OF VARIETY ARTISTS, SAG-AFTRA,
through Theatre Authority, Inc. for their cooperation in permitting the Artists to appear on this program.
