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  Date / Time: 4/16/2009 9:21 PM UTC

  Latino Flavored Linda Nieves-Powell to speak to PRSUN Radio
  

  Linda Nieves-Powell will be my guest on PRSUN Radio at 9 p.m. May 13 at www.blogtalkradio.com/prsunradio.

  
  

  Here's her bio:
  
  Linda Nieves-Powell was named "Mas Que Belleza" by People en Espanol and selected as one of the 100 Most Influential Hispanics by Hispanic Business magazine. This writer, director, producer, author and successful entrepreneur was awarded the 2005 Imagen Award, the 2005 Comite Noviembre award and the 2004 HOLA Tespis Award by the Hispanic Organization of Latino Actors. In 2002, Linda was named one of El Diario/La Prensa’s 50 Most Outstanding Women and received the Harvard University’s Fuerza Latina Award in 2003, and The Texas A&M University SCOLA Award in 2003 for her presentation of positive Latina images.
  
  She has written and directed many successful productions such as Jose Can Speak, YO SOY LATINA!, The New Soul Latina Show, Tina Does Perez, Amigos and Dreams, Rice and Beans & Other Rican Things, and A Day with my Dead Husband Hector. She has also written and directed short films such as, Vinnie the Puerto Rican from Bensonhurst and Mimi’s Portrait which was an official selection of the Miami Short Film Festival, San Francisco Women’s Festival and The Lolita Theater Festival.
  
  Her plays have been produced at Manhattan Theatre Source, HERE, Dixon Place, Crossroads Theatre, Queens Theatre in the Park and the Nuyorican Poet's Cafe.
  
  Linda is the founder and president of Latino Flavored Productions, Inc., a multimedia entertainment production company she founded in 1995. With Linda at the helm, Latino Flavored Productions, Inc. has successfully grossed over one million dollars in sales producing theatrical shows at over 200 top-ranked colleges and universities around the country including Harvard, MIT, Brown and Duke Universities. Linda is a member of the National Association of Latina Leaders. She has appeared on NBC Today, PBS City Arts, Good Day New York, Univision Noticias, NY1, Latin TV, The Roof, La Conexion, Urban Latino TV, Images/Imagenes, Telemundo Noticias, Primer Impacto and Naked in NY with Bob Berkowitz.
  
  Linda's debut novel Free Style is published by Atria/Simon and Schuster and is available in bookstores nationwide. Linda is represented by The Bliss Literary Agency.
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