ARTIST BIOS

Jaime Lozano is a Mexican multi-hyphenate musical theatre storyteller and an American Theatre Wing’s Jonathan Larson Grant awardee 2022. Joe’s Pub Working Group 2020-2022. The Civilians R&D Group 2020-2021. JACK Resident Artist 2021. Lincoln Center Resident Artist 2023. Selected works: El Otro Oz –formerly The Yellow Brick Road– (Off-Broadway & National Tour), Carmen La Cubana (European Tour), Children of Salt (NYMF 2016 “Best of Fest”), A Never-Ending Line (Comédie Nation in Paris & Off-Broadway), Savage (UAB at Birmingham), Present Perfect (Live & In Color). Albums: “A Never-Ending Line,” “Jaime Lozano and the Familia: Songs by an Immigrant” (Broadway Records), “Songs by an Immigrant Vol. 2” (Concord). Film: In The Heights (orchestrations) and Tick, Tick…Boom! (cameo). His project “Jaime Lozano & The Familia” has performed sold out concerts at esteemed venues such as Joe’s Pub, 54 Below, The Green Room 42, Two River Theater, and Lincoln Center’s American Songbook Series. Currently working on “Broadway en Spanglish” album, Roja, and Frida, The Musical. Faculty member of The New School and Berklee NYC. BFA: Music & Composition, Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León; MFA: NYU/Tisch, Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program. Proud member of the Dramatists Guild of America, AFM Local 802, BMI, GRAMMY & Latin GRAMMY voting member.

Tatiana Bustamante is a Latina/e actor originally from Miami, FL. Past credits include A Streetcar Named Desire (Paramount Theatre), A Christmas Carol (Goodman Theatre), Fen (Court Theatre), A Christmas Carol (Drury Lane Theatre), Gypsy (Porchlight Music Theatre), Refuge (Theo Ubique, Non-Equity Jeff Award Ensemble-Play), National Merit (BoHo Theatre), and Lizzie (Firebrand Theatre). They hold a B.F.A. from the Chicago College of Performing Arts and an M.A. from the University of Miami. Tatiana is proudly represented by Gray Talent Group.

Satya Chávez is a Chicago-based, queer, Latiné, multidisciplinary artist whose work as a composer, actor, director, and live-looping musician spans across the country. As a composer, Chávez co-created Refuge, which received multiple awards, including the Edgerton Foundation Award, a Venturous Theater Fund Grant and 3 Jeff Awards (Curious Theatre, Theatre Lab FAU, Unicorn Theatre, and THEO)  Chávez’s other notable compositions include ¡Bernarda! (Teatro Vista), Corduroy (Chicago Shakespeare Theater), and Where Did We Sit on the Bus? (Denver Center for Performing Arts) and TYA musicals, including Brighter Futures (Paramount Theatre) and Seattle History Remix (Seattle Children’s Theater).  As an actor, Chávez has performed at Goodman Theatre, American Repertory Theatre, Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Dallas Theater Center, Cleveland Playhouse, John F. Kennedy Center, Eugene O’Neill Theater Center and more. They are the inaugural recipient of the Jeff Impact Fellowship.

Florencia Cuenca is a Mexican immigrant actress, singer, writer and director based in New York City.  Back in Mexico she is known for telenovelas such as “De que te quiero te quiero,” “Muchachitas como tú,” “Te Sigo Amando,” and for being part of the successful Mexican musical Si Nos Dejan, the Mexican premiere of Shrek the Musical and Selena the Musical. Her first album “Aquí – The New Standards”, toured all around Mexico, Latin America and New York City, and was awarded the Hot House Jazz Award 2016 for Best New Jazz Artist. She has performed Off-Broadway in Children of Salt (NYMF 2016 “Best of Fest”) and A Never-Ending Line (Broadway Records) and more recently she was part of the World Premiere of Real Women Have Curves at American Repertory Theater. As a singer-songwriter she has performed in prestigious venues such as Lincoln Center, Joe’s Pub, Feinstein’s/54 Below and others. Currently working on her new album “Broadway in Spanglish” with husband Jaime Lozano, Florencia is interested in developing projects that celebrate diversity and especially women and the Latinx and Hispanic community.

Andres DeLeon is a proud Mexican and Guatemalan actor and singer from the Chicagoland area. DeLeon has been seen on stages like the Paramount Theatre, Theo Ubique, and Music Theater Works. Most recently he was seen with the Marriott Theatre in their production of In The Heights, as El Piraguero. He is grateful for the opportunity to work with such talented artists and sends all his love and thanks to his familia and friends.

Anne-Sophie Lacombe Garcia is a Franco-Mexican senior theater and international studies double major at Northwestern University. Past credits with the Wirtz Center include The Revolutionists (Olympe de Gouges), The Prom (Dee Dee Allen) and How to Know the Wildflowers: A Map (Beth).

Alondra Rios is a Chicago based director, actor, and playwright born in San Juan, Puerto Rico and raised in St. Petersburg, Florida. Recent directing credits include: Arts Alliance’s In the Heights and Purple Crayon Players’ The Little Mermaid. She has also appeared in Tomas and the Library Lady and Water by the Spoonful at the Wirtz Center and was a member of The Mee-ow Comedy Group for three years. Her new play, El Hilo del Pastel, recently premiered in the Agnes Nixon Playwriting Festival. She studied at Northwestern University with a B.A. in Theatre.

Tommy Rivera-Vega is a Puerto Rican actor. Credits include Teatro Vista, Goodman Theatre, Steppenwolf Theatre, Marriott Theatre, Paramount Theatre, BlackBox Theatre-Puerto Rico, Drury Lane, Chicago Children’s Theatre, Lookingglass Theatre, Destino’s Latine Theatre Festival, Huntington Theatre, Skylight Music Theatre.  He received the 2023 Jeff Award for “Performer in a Principal Role” (CLATA’s Tebas Land), and the 2019 ALTA Award for “Supporting Actor in a Musical” (Goodman Theatre’s The Music Man). Film: Ghostlight (IFC Films – 2024 Sundance Festival Premiere). You can also catch him in the animated series “Alma’s Way” as the voice of Rafa; and in Chicago PD (S4-Ep11). He is a proud Teatro Vista Ensemble Member and is represented by Stewart Talent.

Brian Courage, originally from Long Island, New York, has performed alongside an extensive array of nationally acclaimed improvisers, including Greg Ward, Jon Irabagon, Lew Tabackin, Michael Lewis, Alan Ferber, and Billy Mintz. Ensemble credits include the Minnesota Orchestra, renowned vocal quartet The Four Freshmen, the Chicago Tap Theater, and the New York based Americana / blues rock band Hollis Brown, with whom he toured the US and Europe extensively. His most recent creative endeavor is Abhorrent Expanse, a fully improvised metal band. Their debut album “Gateways to Resplendence” has been featured in prominent outlets including Decibel, Metal Injection, Burning Ambulance, and Wire Magazine.

Christian Lolo Moreno is an active percussionist and drum-set artist, specializing in orchestral and theatrical music. As a freelance performer, he has played with the Chicago Philharmonic, Elgin Symphony, Northwest Indiana Symphony, Marriott Theatre, Music Theatre Works, Porchlight Theatre, Metropolis, Peacherine Ragtime Society, Timberlake Playhouse and Rocky Mountain Repertory Theatre, to name a few. In 2022, he was invited to hold the keyboard III chair on the national Broadway tour of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, traveling to over 65 cities across the United States, Mexico and Canada. Christian is a graduate of the DePaul University School of Music and proudly endorses Sabian Cymbals.

ABOUT TEATRO VISTA PRODUCTIONS

Teatro Vista Productions (TVP) is a non-profit multimedia theater company dedicated to multidisciplinary artists of color whose artistic expression on stage and beyond is rooted in the transformative power of telling and owning our own stories. The award-winning, critically-acclaimed theater company operates as the only Equity Latino/e theater company in the Midwest. In the past two years, Teatro Vista Productions has garnered 21 nominations and 11 Jeff Award wins, including two for Best Production. The organization continually employs and builds the resumes of over 100 artists per season, a majority artists of color, providing them opportunities to further their careers in a supportive and collaborative environment. Teatro Vista Productions has served the Latino/e community for 33 years and is celebrating its 34th season, having presented over 65 productions, including 20 world premieres and 15 Midwest premieres, since its inception in 1991.

ABOUT THE AMERICAN MUSIC THEATRE PROJECT (AMTP)

AMTP at Northwestern University supports the development of new musicals. AMTP’s goal is to provide artists and their works with the proper time, space and resources to realize their intended vision and shepherd them through the next step of their developmental journey. By inviting artists and pieces to our campus, we allow Northwestern students to engage with new work in a rewarding and illuminating way through performance opportunities, assistantships and observation. Learn more about and donate at amtp.northwestern.edu.