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Title
Interview with Pedro Monge Rafuls
Additional title: Pedro Monge Rafuls interview
Names
Parker/Hodges Productions (Production company)
Estate of Felipe Gorostiza (Funder)
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Billy Rose Theatre Division, Theatre on Film and Tape Archive (Producer)
Monge Rafuls, Pedro R. (Interviewee)
Espejo, Ramón, 1969- (Interviewer)
Vásquez, Eva C., 1966- (Interviewer)
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Dates / Origin
Date Issued: 2025
Place: New York
Library locations
Theatre on Film and Tape Archive
Shelf locator: NCOW 449
Topics
Monge Rafuls, Pedro R.
Colon, Miriam -- Friends and associates
Colon, Miriam
Ollantay Center for the Arts
Hispanic American Arts Center (New York, N.Y.)
Puerto Rican Traveling Theatre
Musical theater -- New York (State) -- New York
Hispanic American theater -- New York (State) -- New York
Theater -- New York (State) -- New York
Friends and associates
Musical theater
Theater
New York (State) -- New York
Genres
Interviews
Notes
Statement of responsibility: Billy Rose Theatre Division, Douglas Reside, curator.
Content: Title from opening credits.
Performers: Interviewed by Dr. Ramón Espejo and Eva Cristina Vásquez.
Venue: Videotaped by The New York Public Library's Billy Rose Theatre Division for the Theatre on Film and Tape Archive in the Harvey Fierstein Theatre Lab, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, New York, N.Y., February 6, 2025.
Funding: Recorded with the financial assistance of the Estate of Felipe Gorostiza.
Language: The interview is conducted in Spanish, without translation.
Content: Forms part of the Theatre on Film and Tape Archive, Billy Rose Theatre Division.
Content: Closed captioning for this video was created using an automatic speech recognition system.
Physical Description
Born digital
Extent: 1 videodisc (DVD) (96 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 inches
Description
Playwright Pedro Monge Rafuls, who founded the Ollantay Center for the Arts in Queens, N.Y., is interviewed about his life and career by Ramón Espejo and Eva Cristina Vásquez. Originally from Cuba, Monge Rafuls worked in Miami and Chicago before settling in New York City, where he worked with the INTAR theater company. In 1977 he founded the Ollantay, a Latino cultural center, and formed the Ollantay Theater Ensemble. He soon launched a traveling theater company (inspired in part by Miriam Colón and her Puerto Rican Traveling Theatre), which performed at venues around the borough. In the 1990s he launched the Ollantay Theater Magazine, and served as its editor-in-chief. Monge Rafuls discusses his experiences, colleagues he has known and worked wth, and related topics.
Type of Resource
Moving image
Languages
Spanish, Castilian
Identifiers
RLIN/OCLC: 1528473118
NYPL catalog ID (B-number): b23680496
NYPL catalog ID (B-number): b23785729
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 585e87a0-5ab9-013e-b8d0-0242ac110003
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  • 2025: Digitized
  • 2025: Issued
  • 2026: Found by you!
  • 2027

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Theatre on Film and Tape Archive, The New York Public Library. "Interview with Pedro Monge Rafuls" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 2025. https://old-digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/05251c10-5b72-013e-1b4d-0242ac110003

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Theatre on Film and Tape Archive, The New York Public Library. "Interview with Pedro Monge Rafuls" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed September 24, 2026. https://old-digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/05251c10-5b72-013e-1b4d-0242ac110003

APA Format

Theatre on Film and Tape Archive, The New York Public Library. (2025). Interview with Pedro Monge Rafuls Retrieved from https://old-digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/05251c10-5b72-013e-1b4d-0242ac110003

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Interview with Pedro Monge Rafuls