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Award-winning actor Hector Elizondo has a successful career spanning forty years that includes film, television, theater and radio. Mr. Elizondo has appeared in over eighty films and television shows for which he earned five Emmy Award nominations. In 1997 he won the Emmy for Best Supporting Actor, playing Dr. Phillip Watters in Chicago Hope. His more notable films include: The Taking of Pelham One-Two-Three, The Flamingo Kid, Nothing In Common, Pretty Woman, for which he was nominated for a Golden Globe Award, American Gigolo, Tortilla Soup, and The Princess Diaries. His most recent film is based on Gabriel Garcia Marquez's great novel, Love In the Time of Cholera, to be released in November, 2007. He is co-starring in Cane, a one-hour drama television series for CBS.

Chicana scholar Adriana Katzew is Director of the Art Education Program and Assistant Professor in the Art Department at the University of Vermont. Her research focuses on the intersection between Chicana/os, Latina/os, art, education, and activism. Dr. Katzew obtained her doctorate from Harvard University Graduate School of Education and a law degree from the University of Pennsylvania Law School. She is an artist working in photography and mixed media, and has taught photography and creative writing to immigrant children from Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic.

Luis Miguel Valdez is founder and artistic director of the renowned El Teatro Campesino; former Council member of the National Endowment for the Arts, and founding member of the California Arts Council. In 1965, Mr. Valdez led the theater company to national acclaim with an Off-Broadway Obie Award and Drama Critics Awards in Los Angeles and San Francisco. In 1977, Mr.Valdez wrote "ZOOT SUIT," one of the most successful plays to originate in Los Angeles at the Mark Taper Forum. It became the first play by a Chicano to be produced on Broadway. The motion picture version of "ZOOT SUIT" for Universal Pictures garnered the prestigious foreign press association's Golden Globe Award nomination for 'Best Musical Picture'. In 1987, Luis wrote and directed for Columbia Pictures "LA BAMBA". He has many award-winning productions to his credit involving both stage and television. In 1995, Mr. Valdez was the founding director/professor of the Institute for Teledramatic Arts and Technology at California State University at Monterey Bay. As founder and artistic director of El Teatro Campesino, he continues to work and to mentor a new generation of theater artists at ETC's playhouse in San Juan Bautista.

 
Hector Elizondo
Hector Elizondo
 
Adriana Katzew
Adriana Katzew
 
Luis Miguel Valdez
Luis Miguel Valdez

 

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