


Abre was also nominated for Album of the Year at the Premios Gardel in 2000 while Phil Ramone was nominated for Producer of the Year for his work in the album. Additionally, the album was nominated for Best Latin Rock/Alternative Album at the 43rd Annual Grammy Awards, being Páez first Grammy Award nomination, and only until his win for La Conquista del Espacio in 2021 in the same category.

It was produced by Phil Ramone.Īt the 1st Annual Latin Grammy Awards, the album was nominated for Best Rock Album while the song "Al Lado del Camino" was nominated for Song of the Year and won Best Rock Song and Best Male Rock Vocal Performance, Frank Filipetti also received a nomination for Best Engineered Album for his work as engineer and mixer in the album. She’s currently a WP Theatre Lab fellow and Professor of Writing at Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD).Abre (English: Open) is the eight solo studio album and tenth overall by Argentine singer Fito Páez, released on July 27, 1999, through Warner Music Argentina. Most recently she was a Sesame Street Writer’s Room Fellow. She holds a PhD from the University of California Irvine in English (with a focus in Creative Nonfiction), an MFA from the University of Miami (in fiction), and a BA from Barnard College, Columbia University (English and Art History). As a journalist, feature writer, and essayist, her pieces have appeared in The LA Times, The Miami Herald, The Guardian, The Washington Post, Narrative.ly, The Huffington Post, and The Southern Humanities Review, among numerous other publications. These include The Cuban Spring (a full-length Carbonell Award nominee for Best New Play, 2015), The Crocodile’s Bite (a short included in numerous anthologies such as Smith & Kraus’ Best Ten Minute Plays of 2016 the City Theatre Anthology 2015 and the Writer’s Digest Annual Award Anthology, 2015), and Freek!, a short play for Young Adults (anthologized in The Applause Acting Series’ 5 Minute Plays For Teens). Her plays have been produced in Edinburgh, Miami, Los Angeles, New York, and other cities around the world. Named one of the Best Books of 2015 by NPR, it was also listed by Al Dia, Flavorwire, and numerous other publications and institutions, and won an International Latino Book Award. Her debut novel, White Light, was published in 2015, to critical acclaim. VANESSA GARCIA is a multidisciplinary artist working as a novelist, playwright, and journalist. She received her BFA from Florida International University. Victoria was the assistant director to Tony Taccone in John Leguizamo's Latin History For Morons on Broadway. She is part of the current WP Theatre Lab 2018-2020 cohort. She was a Van Lier Directing Fellow with Repertorio Español, part of the Directing Corps in the Williamstown Theatre Festival, and a recipient of the SDCF Observership. Her production El Burlador de Sevilla received various nominations from the ACE awards, and won for Outstanding Ensemble. Her work has been seen in Repertorio Español, MCC Youth Company, Sheen Center, IATI theatre, Miami New Drama, Microteatro Miami, Columbia University and others. She recently directed the immersive theatre piece, AMPARO, written by Vanessa Garcia in partnership with Havana Club by Bacardi. She has an interest in merging the movement world with naturalist plays in order to create exciting theatrical experiences. VICTORIA COLLADO is a Cuban-American director living and working in New York City and Miami. We do believe the process of experiencing good art has the power to transcend race, gender, class and create change. After you see our work, it is the knowledge of the work that creates the human connection, not an “innate” universality. Our goal is not to start from a unifying place, but to end in one.

We all have a connective humanity, but we won’t always “relate” to a particular experience. That the word “universality” is overrated. We believe that great storytelling is specific enough to be, just that - specific. Most recently, they created The Amparo Experience, the immersive hit play that People en Español called “Miami’s Hottest Ticket” and had a sold-out 8 month run in 2019. They have Masters degrees, doctorates, and have worked on Broadway. Together as artists and collaborators, Victoria Collado and Vanessa Garcia, co-founders of Abre Camino, have worked in theatre, TV, journalism, the visual arts, academia, radio, the literary arts, and film. Abre Camino Collective is an entertainment company comprised of visual, theatre, literary, and performing artists redefining the American narrative through radical storytelling.
