Candela’s curriculum blends culturally responsive pedagogy, cohort-building, and practical professional development. In past years, keynotes, faculty and guests included luminaries such as Broadway's Dominique Morisseau, Quiara Alegría Hudes, Kristoffer Diaz, Michael R. Jackson, Aurin Squire, David Henry Hwang, and Daphne Rubin-Vega, among others.
Broadway: The Band’s Visit (Tony Award winner); Off-Broadway: Completeness (Drama Desk nomination), The Ally (Pulitzer Prize finalist). TV: The Affair, Outsiders, Boardwalk Empire
Jesse Cameron Alick
Dramaturg, producer, and writer; Co-Director of HERE Arts Center
Reyna Bonaparte
Associate Education Director, The People’s Theatre
Rashad V. Chambers
Broadway (Producer): Purpose (Tony winner; Drama Desk winner), Topdog/Underdog (Tony winner), The Inheritance (Tony winner; Drama Desk winner),
Joey Contreras
Off-Broadway/Regional: Wharton Center for Performing Arts: In Pieces (NAMT finalist, 50M Streams); Provincetown Playhouse: All the Kids are Doing It; Riverside Theatre: Forget Me Not
Cusi Cram
Off-Broadway: LAByrinth Theater Company at the Public Theater: All the Bad Things; Miranda Theater: Landlocked; South Coast Repertory: The End of it All
Kristoffer Diaz
Broadway: Hell's Kitchen (Pulitzer Prize finalist, Tony nominee, Lucille Lortel nominee); Off-Broadway: The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity (Pulitzer Prize finalist, Obie winner, Lucille Lortel winner, National Latino Playwriting Award winner), Hercules
Dr. Brian Herrera
Author: Latin Numbers: Playing Latino in Twentieth-Century U.S. Popular Performance; Associate Professor of Theater and Gender & Sexuality Studies, Princeton University
Prof. Darrel Alejandro Holnes
Author: Stepmotherland, Migrant Psalms; Associate Professor at Medgar Evers College: City University of New York, NYU Arts Faculty; Off-Broadway: Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Center Theater Group and 59E59: Black Feminist Video Game, National Black Theater: Bayano
