Caribbean in Queens: a Podcast featuring Audio Plays and interviews about Caribbean-Americans living in New York City during the COVID 19 Pandemic. This is a project of Braata Productions: a Caribbean non-profit arts organization dedicated to preserving Caribbean Heritage.

Episode 2: The weight of the pandemic and the BLM protests set in...

After helping his mother Flor find purpose, Hector finds himself in the midst of a cultural awakening he doesn't understand. Questions about culture, love, and communication plague him as a promotion in his job looms and the world gets angrier.

Written by Nelson Diaz-Marcano

Directed by Gineiris Garcia

Featured Voices:

FLOR: Jessica Carmona

HECTOR: Cedric Leiba Jr.

TITO/ROB: Rigoberto Vindiola

MARIANNA/REINA/ENSEMBLE: Michelle Reiss

ENSEMBLE: Joel Edwards

Music & Production by Joel Edwards

Narration by Julene Robinson

Flor was inspired by interviews with Rosa Mendez

Content Warning: Flor contains Strong Adult Language

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Funded in part by the Venturous Theater Fund of the Tides Foundation.

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