• Wilson Jermaine Heredia, Former El Puente Member
  Interview with Wilson Heredia highlighting his role as Angel in the newly released movie RENT: I was dancing professionally by the time I was 14. El Puente (in Williamsburg, Brooklyn) trained me in modern and jazz…
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• Suheir Hammad, Americorps Alumni of El Puente
  "Suheir Hammad was born in Amman, Jordan to Palestinian refugee parents on October 25, 1973. Suheir’s family immigrated to Brooklyn NY when Suheir was five years old, and she was raised there until the age of sixteen. Her parents moved to Staten Island while Suheir was in high school. Enough of that personal history, thanks.
  
  Suheir has been able to travel throughout the world via her poetry. She has read her poems in Ivy League Universities and on Brooklyn’s street corners. Her work has appeared in award winning anthologies, and in zines stapled together by queer youth collectives. As far as we know, Suheir was the first Palestinian starring in a Broadway show, and she continues to be the first Palestinian in many artistic spaces throughout the States. "
  www.suheirhammad.com
  
  
• Lemon Anderson, Former El Puente Member and actor/activist of Teatro el Puente
  "Lemon Andersen is a highly critically acclaimed renaissance man, a regular on HBO’s Def Poetry, an original cast member and writer of the TONY award winning Def Poetry Jam on Broadway, a drama desk nominee, he has traveled the spoken word and theatre scene for the last eight years, was chosen as the poet to help sign Lebron James to Nike, recently shot two films with Spike Lee, A lead role in ‘sucker free city? a new film for Showtime and Spikes latest She Hate Me, as well as performing as the lead actor in a short film heading for sundance next summer called Avending Angel. Lemon opened up for recording artist Ashanti at this years HOT 97/ FUSE TV fashion show. His theatre credits include Slanguage that he co-wrote with Universes a theatre group directed by Jo Bonney at the New york Theatre workshop. Other off Broadway appearances include THE RIDE at PS 122, ‘U’ (Slanguage Worksop) at the Mark Taper Forum, Scotland’s fringe festival and The Painted Bride. Lemon is currently taking diction an dialect classes with Sam Chwat and acting classes with Susan Batson and has taught master performance art workshops at different universities, colleges and venues including Harvard, Princeton, UMASS and Sing Sing prison to name a few, Lemon was born and raised in New York City."
  www.lemonshood.com

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