Episode 1:

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 1: Meeting Flor & Her Family

As she starts to enjoy life again, the whole world shuts down, leaving Flor without her groove back, and worse, without her Karaoke. What does a recently retired Puerto Rican woman do when everything seems to keep changing on her?

Written by : Nelson Diaz-Marcano

Directed by : Gineiris Garcia

Featured Voices:

FLOR: Jessica Carmona

VALENTINA: Jennica Carmona

HECTOR: Cedric Leiba Jr.

TITO: Rigoberto Vindiola

DJ: Leonardo Gonzalez Dominguez

ENSEMBLE: Michelle Reiss

Music & Production : by Joel Edwards

Narration : Julene Robinson

Flor was inspired by interviews with Rosa Mendez

Sponsor:

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

More Information about Braata Productions & Caribbean in Queens: www.braataproductions.org