Angel Gil Orrios

Angel Gil Orrios (Director/Writer/Producer) is the Artistic/Executive Director of the Thalia Spanish Theatre in New York since 2000, and has been honored with the New York 2009 Mayor's Award for Arts and Culture, and the Hispanic Leadership Award by the New York City Council. He received the 2017 Raul Julia HOLA Founders Award for Excellence, and the 2010 ACE Special Award for Artistic Achievement from the Association of Latin Critics of Entertainment of New York. He has written, produced & directed three short films, including A Poet in New York (Trip to the Moon) with the late Raúl Juliá, winning the 1993 Award of the XVIII San Francisco Poetry Film Festival. His screenplays include: Pishtakos [with Ana Maria Estrada], Donde los Perros se vuelven Lobos (Where Dogs Become Wolves) [with Luis Argueta], Kacike Enriquillo and The Race [with Kathy Barrett], Serra: The Man Who Never Turned Back, ¡Yo No Fui! [with Luisito Martí], A Hunger Artist, Génesis Flamenco, and the TV mini-series God