HCAC is also home to the Hostos Repertory Company (Hostos Rep), an initiative of the College’s Humanities Department. Now in its 28th season, the Hostos Rep has become an important voice of Spanish and bilingual theater in the region. In recent years, the Hostos Rep has received a number of awards and other forms of recognition, including an invitation for the Company’s 2008 production of Borinquen Vive en El Barrio to be presented at TeatroStageFest, New York City’s premier theater festival. Its 2010 English/Spanish production of Virgilio Piñera’s Siempre se Olvida Algo/You Always Forget Something won four HOLA awards and two ACE awards. In 2011, the Hostos Rep was one of only five university-based companies invited to participate in the northeast regional compe-
tition of the Kennedy Center’s American College Theater Festival. The troupe presented Peter Nachtrieb’s production of boom!, and cast member Abraim Rasheed was a finalist in the Festival’s individual category. It was also the only community collegebased troupe invited to present a full production at the Festival, competing with such colleges as Boston University, Rhode Island College, Franklin Pierce, and Yale.
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