TEATRO CÍRCULO CELEBRATING ITS 30TH ANNIVERSARY PRESENTS ‘LA MONJA ALFÉREZ’ BY JUAN RUIZ DE ALARCÓN
A story of a 17th Century woMAN who fights against all odds to validate his gender identity.

Teatro Círculo, one of the main bilingual Latino theatre companies in New York City, celebrates its 30th Anniversary Season with ‘La monja alférez’ (The Lieutenant Nun) by Mexican playwright Juan Ruiz de Alarcón, directed by Daniel Alonso de Santos.

This 17th Century play centered on a nonbinary character demonstrates that gender nonconformity is neither new nor unnatural. With growing attacks on transgender people, with this production, Teatro Círculo brings attention to this forward-looking play and to the challenges gender nonconforming individuals faced then and now.

This adaptation of ‘La monja alférez’ (The Lieutenant Nun), performed in Spanish Verse with overtitles in English, made by Daniel Alonso de Santos and Germán Vega García-Luengos is placed in a piano bar in NYC where its host gathers their clientele to tell the story of this legendary nun. The director’s concept mixes old and new esthetics, emphasized by the costumes, lighting, and set in a Production Design by Israel Franco Müller.

The cast of ‘La monja alférez’ (The Lieutenant Nun) features María Fontanals, Eva Cristina Vásquez, Sandra Gumuzzio, Gerardo Gudiño, Fernando Gazzaniga, Pablo Andrade, Mario Mattei and Jei Fabiano.

The creative team is completed with Verse Direction by Karmele Aranburu, original music composed by Jei Fabiano, Eliana Michelle Yost is the Assistant Director and Stage Manager, Kareliz Michelle De Jesús is the Hair & Makeup Designer, Production Design Assistant and Props Master, and Mario Mattei is the Fights Choreographer.

‘La monja alférez’ is made possible, in part, through funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, Howard Gilman Foundation, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, the Shubert Foundation, the Lucille Lortel Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, and The National Latinx Theater Initiative.