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Additional authors

1. Rubin-Vega, Daphne
2. Winer, Linda
3. Robins, Isobel
4. Slaughter, Harriet
5. Mayleas, Ruth
6. Corwin, Betty L
7. Isaacson, Robert
8. Malone, Audra D
9. CUNY-TV (Television station : New York, N.Y.), producer
10. League of Professional Theatre Women, producer
11. City University of New York
12. League of Professional Theatre Women, donor
13. CUNY-TV (Television station : New York, N.Y.), donor

Description

1. 1 videodisc (DVD) (29 min.) : sd., col. SP; 4 3/4 in.

Summary

1. Daphne Rubin-Vega discusses her career with Newsday critic Linda Winer. Best known for her creation of the first Mimi in the Broadway musical Rent, Rubin-Vega comments on how her career has progressed to traditional musicals like Les Miserables, as well as such plays as Bernarda Alba by Michael John LaChiusa and Anna in the tropics by Nilo Cruz, and more edgy projects with the multicultural LAByrinth Theater Company. She also talks about her work in films and as a recording artist, her Panamanian parentage and upbringing in New York, her recent motherhood and the challenges of being a Latina actress.

Series statement

1. Women in theatre

Alternative title

1. Dialogues with notable women in American theatre

Subject

1. Theater > Production and direction
2. Television
3. Actresses > Interviews
4. Rubin-Vega, Daphne > Interviews
5. Talk shows
6. Theater > New York (State) > New York
7. Interviews
8. Women in the theater
9. Hispanic American actors > Interviews

Genre/Form

1. Television.
2. Talk shows.
3. Interviews.

Call number

1. NCOX 2282

Note

1. Credits at end of videodisc.
2. Program is also available at www.cuny.tv.
3. On container: Season 5, episode 5.
4. "Discussion program spotlighting prominent women from the theatre, including performers, playwrights, producers and designers."

Performer (note)

1. Interviewer: Linda Winer.

Event (note)

1. Videotaped in the CUNY-TV studios, New York, N.Y. First aired on CUNY-TV, Channel 75, May 4, 2007.

Title

1. Women in theatre. Daphne Rubin-Vega [videorecording] / produced by the League of Professional Theatre Women, Isobel Robins, Harriet Slaughter, co-presidents ; Ruth Mayleas, executive producer ; Betty L. Corwin, director of special projects, Theatre on Film and Tape Archive ; Bob Isaacson, executive in charge of production ; Audra D. Malone, director ; [produced for] CUNY-TV.

Imprint

1. New York : CUNY-TV, c2007.

Series

1. Women in theatre

Performer

1. Interviewer: Linda Winer.

Event

1. Videotaped in the CUNY-TV studios, New York, N.Y. First aired on CUNY-TV, Channel 75, May 4, 2007.

Local note

1. Gift of The League of Professional Theatre Women and CUNY-TV.

Connect to:

1. Request Access to Theatre on Film and Tape Archive Special Collections material

Added author

1. Rubin-Vega, Daphne, interviewee.
2. Winer, Linda, interviewer.
3. Robins, Isobel, producer.
4. Slaughter, Harriet, producer.
5. Mayleas, Ruth, producer.
6. Corwin, Betty L, producer.
7. Isaacson, Robert, producer.
8. Malone, Audra D, director.
9. CUNY-TV (Television station : New York, N.Y.), producer.
10. League of Professional Theatre Women, producer.
11. City University of New York.
12. League of Professional Theatre Women, donor.
13. CUNY-TV (Television station : New York, N.Y.), donor.

Research call number

1. NCOX 2282