Cindy Casado of The SugarRush Comedy Show will talk to PRSUN Radio at 9 p.m. Wednesday, March 18. Tune in.
BIO
Cindy Casado’s production experience includes assistant event coordinator for The Hispanic Achievement Awards Ceremonyat Jimmy’s Bronx Café, on-field presentation at Yankee Stadium and coordination of Tropical Night at the South Street Seaport in NYC.
She began exploring theater as asistant light tech/stage manager for Latino Flavored Productions Off-Broadway hit “Yo Soy Latina.” She’s contributed as production assistant on set HBO’s short film BEAUTY .
As assistant stage manger for the showcasing of “Fear & All of Me,” she went on to sound tech at the 2005 Latino playwrights’ festival "Songs from Coconut Hill" and assistant stage manager and sound tech for the Latino College Expo. in association with Ciacedo Productions for A Tribute to Reinaldo Povad "Remembering Rei”all presented at her theater home Teatro La Tea.
Like a butterflies’metamorphosis from a technical cocoon, Cindy has emerged as a budding and promising performer, passionately vocalizing her message through poetic song, writings of monologues, situations and real life experience.
Cindy has opened up as a vocal performer and participated as Esperanza Colon at the legendary NuyoRican Poets Café for the comedy troupe “NuyoRican RULE." She's also been showcased as Esperanza Colon for “La Reinas Barriolesque” also at the NuyoRicans Poets Café & at the Katrina Relief & Fundraiser at Teatro La Tea. Giving life to the characters she so diligently observes in herself & the world that surrounds her, have led exactly where she belongs: on stage.
Cindy has been producing comedy shows and writing comedy for four years now and most recently has taken the stage as a standup comic. Cindy has been hard at work at comedy clubs through out the city at venues such as Carolines comedy club, the NuyoRican Poets Café, Cemi Underground where she was one of the NYC Chicas of Comedy, Stand Up NY, Comic strip & Capicu culture show case in Brooklyn. Cindy is currently producing her own comedy shows The SugaRusH ComedyShow @ Camaradas el Barrio in East Harlem & the Bruckner Bar & Grill in the Bronx & was featured for the D.C Latino comedy show June 2008. She’s performed @ Comic strip Gladys’ comedy room, 4 Comedy central @ Laugh Lounge, @ Comix SiTV. Cindy’s also co-hosting with La Bruja for comedy night at the legendary NuyoRican Poets Café, host of Los Abnormales @ Stand up Ny comedy club, & host of Columbia University’s Latino heritage “Swager like us.” She is also host for the Latino Poets Society.