{"id":421,"date":"2018-07-10T22:52:24","date_gmt":"2018-07-11T03:52:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2016classnews\/?p=421"},"modified":"2018-07-10T22:52:24","modified_gmt":"2018-07-11T03:52:24","slug":"alumnae-to-perform-in-firefly-love-in-chicago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2016classnews\/2018\/07\/10\/alumnae-to-perform-in-firefly-love-in-chicago\/","title":{"rendered":"Alumnae to Perform in &#8220;Firefly Love&#8221; in Chicago"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Allyce Carryn Torres &#8217;13 and Alexa Fajardo Eldridge &#8217;16 will be preforming in &#8220;Firefly Love&#8221; at Something Marvelous, a magical realism theater festival based in Chicago.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Something Marvelous cultivates new works of magical realism and curates a reflective dialogue with the community to examine, broaden, and embolden the genre. Our work uses theatricality to awaken imagination and inspire empathy for new perspectives.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Firefly Love by Alejandro Rica\u00f1o and translated by H\u00e9ctor Garza\u00a0 will run from June 30 to\u00a0<span class=\"aBn\"><span class=\"aQJ\">July 15, 2018<\/span><\/span>\u00a0at Athenaeum Theatre, Studio One in\u00a0 Chicago.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Allyce will be preforming as Lola in Firefly Love and is an Actor, Teaching Artist, and Activist originally from San Diego. Recent credits include WHAT OF THE NIGHT at Stage Left &amp; Cor, THE BOTTLE TREE at Stage Left, FEFU &amp; HER FRIENDS at Halcyon Theatre, and INTO THE BEAUTIFUL NORTH at 16th Street Theatre. Her credits at Something Marvelous include DON\u2019T LOOK and REFERENCES TO SALVADOR DAL\u00cd MAKE ME HOT. She is the Managing Director of Windy City Performs, the Company Manager of Something Marvelous, and an ensemble member at Stage Left.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Alexa will be preforming as Lola in Firefly Love on July 6th and 8th. She\u00a0 is a Cuban American actor and Improvisor new to the Windy City and loving every minute! Alexa just finished a year long Acting Apprenticeship at Florida Studio Theatre in Sarasota, FL where she performed in Stephen Spotswood\u2019s Rolling World Premiere of DOUBLEWIDE as Lorelai, and you can find her now at The Second City as a student in their prestigious conservatory program!<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.somethingmarvelous.org\/firefly-love\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click here<\/a>\u00a0for more information about Firefly Love and links to tickets.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Allyce Carryn Torres &#8217;13 and Alexa Fajardo Eldridge &#8217;16 will be preforming in &#8220;Firefly Love&#8221; at Something Marvelous, a magical realism theater festival based in Chicago. Something Marvelous cultivates new works of magical realism and curates a reflective dialogue with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2016classnews\/2018\/07\/10\/alumnae-to-perform-in-firefly-love-in-chicago\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":725,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2016classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2016classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2016classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2016classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/725"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2016classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=421"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2016classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":422,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2016classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421\/revisions\/422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2016classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2016classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2016classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}