Co-Production with:
Teatro Chelsea and Gloucester Stage Company present
THE HOMBRES
by Tony Meneses
Directed by ARMANDO RIVERA
A macho crew of construction workers clash with the clientele of the next door yoga studio in this new comedy. When Julián, the Latino yoga instructor, confronts Héctor, the older head of the crew, the men find new flexibility and friendship they never expected. Secret yoga lessons and deep conversations provide an intimate look at masculinity in this heartwarming play.
Written by Tony Meneses and directed by Armando Rivera, The Hombres offers a fresh perspective on male friendships and machismo culture. Running from September 6 to 29, the production will start at Gloucester Stage’s Theater for the first three weeks and move to Chelsea Theatre Works for the final week.
Showtimes are Wednesdays & Thursdays at 7:30pm, Fridays & Saturdays at 8:00pm, and matinees Saturdays & Sundays at 3:00pm. All remaining performances are at Chelsea Theater Works 189 Winnisimmet St., Chelsea, MA.
Made possible in part by:
SEPTEMBER 6 – 29
Performances
7:30 pm, WED + THU
8:00 pm, FRI + SAT
3:00 pm, SAT + SUN
Preview Performances
September 6 + 7
Show Runtime
100 minutes + 15 minute intermission
Critical Reception to Gloucester Stage and Teatro Chelsea’s The Hombres
“A show well worth seeing, in no small part thanks to its fine cast.”
“Director Armando Rivera deftly guides the tone“
“It’s refreshing to watch this thoughtful examination of male friendships.”
“explores universal stories of relationships tested by the surprising twists and turns that occur in every life”
“Exquisitely written and extraordinarily human“
“makes us laugh and appreciate our common humanity”
“Meneses’ insightful writing sets up a funny, sometimes fraught journey of self-discovery.”
R. Scott Reedy, BroadwayWorld (read full review here)
“The Hombres” is utterly captivating, deeply touching, and brilliantly insightful.“
Amy Palmer, The Ipswich Local News (read full review here)
“The Hombres is a well paced production with a captivating cast as each character undergoes some sort of mental, physical or spiritual transformation.“
The Sleepless Critic (read full review here)
“Gloucester Stage and Teatro Chelsea have begun a truly momentous collaboration with immediately very satisfying results.“
Jules Becker, Bay Windows (read full review here)
“One of the year’s best surprises! The Hombres is a tender, vital, and beautifully acted gem.“
Christopher Ehlers, Boston Theater Critics Association Member
Trailers and Behind the Scenes videos for The Hombres
Meet the Creative Team
Tony Meneses / Playwright
Tony Meneses was born in Guadalajara, Mexico and raised in Albuquerque and Dallas. His plays include Guadalupe in the Guest Room, twenty50, The Hombres, El Borracho, The Myth of the Two Marcos, and A Thousand Maids. He is an alumnus of the Soho Rep. Writer/Director Lab, Ars Nova Play Group, Sundance Institute Playwrights Retreat at Ucross Foundation, The Playwrights Realm Writing Fellowship, and Ensemble Studio Theatre’s Youngblood, and his work has been previously developed at the Lark Play Development Center Playwrights’ Week, Berkeley Repertory Theatre’s The Ground Floor, Denver Center for the Performing Arts Theatre Company’s Colorado New Play Summit, The Old Globe’s Powers New Voices Festival, and South Coast Repertory’s Pacific Playwrights Festival and New SCRipt Series. He is a two-time recipient of The Kennedy Center Latinx Playwriting Award, is published by Dramatists Play Service and Theatrical Rights Worldwide, and has been previously commissioned by Denver Center, Two River Theater, South Coast Rep, and The Juilliard School. He is currently under commission from The Old Globe. Education: The University of Texas at Austin, Iowa Playwrights Workshop, Juilliard. He is currently the Interim Head of Playwriting at Fordham University.
Armando Rivera / Director
Armando Rivera (he/him) is a Boston based director and actor, and serves as Co-Artistic Director of Teatro Chelsea, a bilingual Latino theater company in Chelsea, MA. His current focus lies in uplifting new Latine narratives that highlight the bilingual experience and resonate with diverse communities. Select Directing credits: Fade (Kitchen Theatre Company). 619 Hendricks, Revitalized, Sonia se Fue (Teatro Chelsea). Latin American Folktales, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Apollinaire Play Lab). Select Acting Credits: Machine Learning (Central Square Theatre), Hamlet (Apollinaire Theatre), Sword in the Stone (B Street Theatre) www.TeatroChelsea.
Meet the Cast
Arthur Gomez* / Héctor
Acting Credits: Gloucester Stage: Every Christmas Story Ever Told… (Jim). Greater Boston Stage Company: Miracle on 34th Street (Mr. Macy), Last Night at Bowl-Mor Lanes (Ed), The Three Musketeers (Monsieur Bonacieux). Lyric Stage: Assassins (Bystander),
Jaime José Hernández / Beto
Gloucester Stage Company: Vanya/Sonia/Masha/Spike, Tall Tales From Blackburn Tavern, Dorset Theatre Festival: Native Gardens, The Huntington: John Proctor is The Villain, Gamm Theatre: Sweat, Actors Shakespeare Project: As You Like It, Commonwealth Shakespeare Company: Much Ado About Nothing, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Moonbox Productions: The House of Ramon Iglesia, Lyric Stage Company of Boston: Fabulation, or the Re-Education of Undine, American Repertory Theatre: The Arboretum Experience, Hub Theatre Company of Boston: The Last Days of Judas Iscariot, Apollinaire Theatre Company: Romeo & Juliet, TV: Power Book II: Ghost (STARZ), S.W.A.T (CBS) Jaime is a founding member of Teatro Chelsea. Represented by: Kreativ Media Partners. jaimejosehernandez.com @jaimejose.hernandez
Ricardo “Ricky” Holguin* / Julián
Ricardo “Ricky” Holguin (he/him/his) is thrilled to be making his debut at Gloucester Stage Company in partnership with Teatro Chelsea. Recently, he was in Next to Normal at Central Square Theater and a guest soloist at Reagle Music Theatre’s production of ChristmasTime 2023. Other Boston credits include the world premiere of Make Way For Ducklings, Willy Wonka, and James and the Giant Peach (Wheelock Family Theatre), The 52nd Annual Midwinter Revels: A Solstice Celebration (Revels), The Inheritance (Regional Premiere, SpeakEasy Stage Company, Elliot Norton for Outstanding Ensemble), 1776, Man of La Mancha, Fiddler on the Roof directed by Austin Pendleton (New Repertory Theatre), Altar Boyz (Greater Boston Stage Company), Kiss of the Spider Woman, LaChiusa’s The Wild Party (Moonbox Productions), and Guys and Dolls (Reagle Music Theatre). Ricky has been praised and workshopped by Richard Maltby, David Shire, Didi Conn, and Tony Award Winner, Adam Guettel. He obtained his M.F.A. in Musical Theater from The Boston Conservatory. He is currently the True Colors Manager at The Theatre Offensive.
Luis Negrón* / Pedro
Luis Negrón (He/him/his) is making his Gloucester Stage Co. debut and has been a Boston area actor for almost 20 years, having performed in theatre, musical theatre, film, commercials, voiceovers and print. Luis has performed with such companies as The Huntington Stage Co., The Lyric Stage Co., SpeakEasy Stage, Merrimack Repertory Theatre, Wheelock Family Theatre, New Repertory Theatre, Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theatre, Wellesley Summer Theatre, Moonbox Productions, Brandeis Theatre Co. and Teatro Chelsea. Recently seen: Othello (Chelsea Theatre Works), The Addams Family (Wheelock), The Normal Heart (New Rep) and The House of Ramón Iglesia (Moonbox/Teatro Chelsea).
Patrick O’Konis / Miles
Patrick is thrilled to be making his Gloucester Stage debut with The Hombres. Patrick holds his MFA in Acting from Brooklyn College and currently teaches Film/Theatre at his alma mater College of the Holy Cross. Recent Regional credits: BCTA Critics’ Pick Touching the Void-Apollinaire Theatre, John Proctor is the Villain-Huntington Theatre (Elliot Norton Award 2024-Outstanding Ensemble), Indecent-Wilbury Theatre Group, & Mystic Pizza-Ivoryton Playhouse. He sends his continuous love to his family for their never ending support. Upcoming: A Moon for the Misbegotten-Majestic Theatre, At the Wedding (Director)-Alternative College Theatre. www.patrickokonis.com
Meet the Production Team
Sofia Cardona / Asst. Director
Sofia Cardona she/her/hers is an actress and theatre artist from North Carolina. She recently graduated from Emerson College with a BFA in Theatre and Performance. In the past year, she was the assistant to the creative director at Central Square Theater. In January she worked as the dramaturg for Machine Learning at Central Square Theater. She is currently the assistant director of The Hombres at Gloucester Stage and Teatro Chelsea. Sofia comes from a Colombian background and is very passionate about diversity and inclusion in the arts. She has acting credits in various student films and was just in a production of How We Got On by Idris Goodwin for Emerson stage.
Julian Crocamo / Sound Designer
Julian Crocamo is a composer, audio engineer and sound designer based in Portland, ME. His work has appeared at The Kitchen Theatre Company in Ithaca, NY (The Thanksgiving Play, The Chinese Lady), Dayton, OH’s Human Race Theatre Company (An Incident at Our Lady of Perpetual Help) and in The Huntington Theatre Company’s audio play Sherlock in the Fog. He is excited to return to Gloucester Stage after last year’s production of The Ding Dongs.
Olivia Dumaine / Intimacy Director
Carolyn Ferris / Properties Designer + Apprentice
Carolyn is a recent graduate of the University of Massachusetts Amherst, with majors in both Theater and English, as well as a certificate in Professional Writing and Technical Communication. With most recent work as both the lead Stage Manager and Assistant Production Manager for the UMass Theater department, she focuses in management, but extends her skills to technical areas such as costuming, lighting, and hair and makeup. Recent credits include Twelfth Night – Directed by Milan Dragicevich (Stage Manager), Mother and Me – Melinda Buckley (Stage Manager), The Insanity of Mary Girard – Directed by Liv Darling (Hair and Makeup) and many more. Please visit cferrisportfolio.com for a more in depth look at her work! Carolyn is thrilled to be with Gloucester Stage and excited for opportunities to come!
John Holmes / Lighting Designer
Nathaniel Justiniano / Movement Designer
Nathaniel is a queer, Cali-Rican theater artist. He is the founding Artistic Director of Naked Empire Bouffon Company, which began in San Francisco in 2009 with an activist mission to devise hilarious, cutting, and visually-provocative satires to catalyze urgent discourse. Since then, Naked Empire has toured across the continent with award-winning new works and training intensives becoming North America’s premier bouffon company. He has acted with Shakespeare Orange County, Son of Semele Ensemble, Cornerstone Theater Company, The Dell’Arte Company, Thrillpeddlers, and We Players. He also performed for Cutting Ball Theater in Yury Urnov’s production of Ubo Roi, for which he won Best Puppetry in San Francisco from SF Weekly. Beyond the stage, his work also focuses on social justice in the workplace and in performance pedagogy. Some of his activism is featured in the recent Howlround series, “When Clowns Fight the Power” and the American Theater Magazine piece, “Send In The Activist Clowns.” Currently, he is an Associate Professor of Performance and Head of Movement at Emerson College and he has served as the Director of Physical Comedy for the Sacramento Shakespeare Festival, Movement Designer at UC Berkeley, core faculty of the SF Clown Conservatory, and guest faculty at the Juilliard School.
Leanna Niesen / Asst. Stage Manager + Apprentice
Leanna is a recent graduate of Muhlenberg College with a B.A.in Theatre and Dance with concentrations in Stage Management and Choreography. She has had the opportunity to stage manage a diverse range of projects, including dance productions, small plays, large-scale musicals, student-produced work, and devised pieces. Favorite credits include Head Over Heels (PSM, Muhlenberg College), Local Girls (PSM / Choreographer, Muhlenberg College), and Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812 (ASM, Capital City Theatre). She recently spent a summer as a Stage Manager and Counselor at Stagedoor Manor. In addition to her work as a stage manager, Leanna has experience in choreography, theatrical intimacy, and technical theatre. She is excited for the opportunity to work and learn alongside other emerging professionals at Gloucester Stage Company!
Chelsea Kerl / Costume Designer
Chelsea is a Boston based freelance artist and educator; she received her MFA in Costume Design from Boston University and previously attended the University of Maryland. Previous designs at Gloucester: Tall Tales From Blackburn Tavern, Grand Horizons, Mr. Fullerton Between the Sheets, Tiny Beautiful Things, Native Gardens, Ben Butler, Madame Defarge, To Kill a Mockingbird, Man in Snow, Every Christmas Story Ever Told (And Then Some!), A Measure of Normalcy, and Gloucester Blue. Chelsea is the costume shop manager and costume design professor at Wellesley College; she also teaches at Bridgewater State University and previously worked in the costume shop of the American Repertory Theatre. Select recent designs include- Huntington Theatre Company: Witch (Elliot Norton Award Winner, Outstanding Design: Large Theatre), Wheelock Family Theatre at BU: Willy Wonka; SpeakEasy Stage Company/Front Porch Arts Collective: Pass Over; Company One/American Repertory Theatre: Greater Good. More of her work can be seen at www.chelseakerl.com.
Kristin Loeffler / Set Designer
Pat-rice Rooney / Production Stage Manager
Robert Walsh° / Fight Director
Yijia Yu / Dramaturg + Apprentice
*Member of Actors’ Equity Association (AEA)
† Represented by United Scenic Artists, Local USA-829 of the IATSE
THE HOMBRES is presented through special arrangement with
TRW PLAYS 1180 Avenue of the Americas, Suite 640, New York, NY 10036. www.trwplays.com
THE HOMBRES was originally Co- Commissioned by Two River Theater and the NJPAC Stage Exchange,
a program of the New Jersey Performing Arts Center (John Schreiber, President & CEO).