Tres Cubanos Selected For New York International Fringe Festival.

Three Cuban-American Miami natives—all students at NYU’s Tisch School of Dramatic Arts–will make their New York off-Broadway stage debuted on August 13th, at 9:30 p.m., at the Eighth Annual New York International Fringe Festival in A Place Without Seasons, a full-length drama written by Marco Ramirez. The play will be presented at Tribeca’s Access Theater, on Broadway and White Street, on August 13, 15 (12 p.m.), 17 (5:15 p.m.), 22 (2 p.m.), and 27 (5:45 p.m.). The students raised the majority of the funds needed to produce the play, with the help of various sponsors.

A Place Without Seasons is about a woman who is pregnant for five years while her husband is forced to fight a distant civil war by the general in charge of their small town. The general, her husband’s brother, is painfully in love with her though she rejects him at all costs.

Heavily influenced by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Ramirez uses his own brand of “magical realism” to tell this story of devotion, human will, and passion stretching the limitations of the physical world.

Making their professional New York acting debuts will be: Rebecca Delgado (Actor/Producer) and Alejandro H. Fumero (Actor/Producer). All three artists, now 21 years old grew up in Miami.

Fringe NYC, a production of The Present Company, is the largest multi-arts festival in North America, with companies from all over the world performing for 16 days in more than 20 venues. Delgado, Fumero, and Ramirez are honored to have their play selected out of over 800 applicants to this year’s festival.

Delgado is a graduate of New World School of the Arts; Fumero is a Ransom-Everglades Alumnus who is also a playwright; and Ramirez, the author of this play, attended Coral Reef High School. Together they bring their Latin American heritage and Miami upbringing to the production.

“One of my characters is an old man with a guitar who has become senile and decided to sit under a tree until he writes the perfect song. He spends the whole play picking his guitar to the style of ‘punto guajiro’ looking for the ‘one melody that hasn’t been written yet.’ As a matter of fact, my very first reaction to finding out that FringeNYC wanted us was something like ‘Punto guajiro? Off-Broadway? Awesome!’” said Marcos Ramirez, author of A Place Without Seasons.

“In August of last year, I read a copy of A Place without Seasons as I left Miami International Airport to study in London. Somewhere over the Atlantic Ocean, I finished the play and I knew that I had to be a part of it.,” said Rebeca Delgado “When we got back to New York City in January, we gathered all the work for the application to FringeNYC, put Marco’s play in the envelope, and sent it in.

Fumero added that, “It’s amazing that one year after being introduced to A Place Without Seasons it is due to open in New York City this Friday.”