Arena: A HOUSE MUSIC-al

Felipe E. Agredano, is an award-winning executive producer at TNH.  Recently, during Agredano's tenure as a producer of four Broadway musicals include "In the Heights", "Sister Act", Disney's "Aladdin" and "Beauty and the Beast" at Casa 0101 and Los Angeles Theatre Center earned LA Times Critics Choice, LA Weekly Pick of the Week, reviews by La Opinion and won the best producer award by the NAACP.  Agredano holds an Associate's of Arts from East Los Angeles College, dual-baccalaureate's in Political Science and Ethnic Studies from UC Berkeley and a Master's in Theological Studies from Harvard University.  Agredano is faculty of Political Science and Chicano Studies at East Los Angeles College, Los Angeles City College and Los Angeles Trade-Tech College.  Agredano was first cast as a child actor in Alfonzo Arau's "Calzonzin Inspector", Mexico's submission for the 47th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language adapted for theatre at the historic downtown Los Angeles Embassy Hotel and Trinity Auditorium, as well as for "La pasión de Cristo" and "Marcelino pan y vino" in the legendary Teatro Blanquita of Boyle Heights, CA.  An artist and playwright, his plays include "Romana y El Cuerpo de Cristo", produced and developed at the Brown and Out Festival by Casa 0101. He has also produced, "La hija prodiga" and "Voces en la obscuridad".

Rigo Tejeda is the director is the founder and artistic Director of Teatro Nuevos Horizontes/Theatre New Horizons Company. He is the recipient of the 2019 NAACP award for BEST DIRECTOR for the production of Beauty and The Beast. Rigo Tejeda has become a well-recognized and respected artist in his own right. His Director credit Highlights include "In The Heights" West Coast Regional Premiere, "Aladdin-Dual Language Edition", "Beauty and The Beast", "Sister Act" and "Frozen Jr." This along with his strong passion for exceptional theatre have set Rigo Tejeda on the forefront of the Latino theatre movement in L.A. and is set to maintain a level of excellence in theatre par to none.

Abel Alvarado, is a Playwright, Book Writer/Lyricist, Costume Designer, and Producing Artistic Director at TNH Productions. Conceived and book writer for ARENA: A House Music-al. He is also an award winning Costume Designer, with works including for works including In The Heights, It Happened in Roswell, A Force To Be Reckoned With, An L.A. Journey, Little Red, Drunk Girl, Remembering Boyle Heights, Bad for the Community, Teatro MOZ, Mariela In The Desert, They Shoot Mexicans Don't They?, Vietgone, Enemy of the Pueblo, Evangeline Queen of the Make Believe and Disney's Aladdin Dual Language Edition. Video work includes Wardrobe Stylist for Grammy Award nominee Gerardo Ortiz music video "Para Que Lastimarme?" and the web-series Cafe Con Chisme. He was recently awarded "Best Costume Design" by the NAACP Theater awards for his costumes in Disney's Beauty and the Beast - The Broadway Musical at CASA 0101. Producing Brown and Out IV & V Theater Festival and designing for Josefina Lopez's Real Women Have Curves at the Pasadena Playhouse are personal highlights of his work.

Patricia Zamorano, is a Playwright, Producer, Dramaturg. First generation, Mexican-American, Chicana, born and raised in Boyle Heights, is currently working with Abel Alvarado on his full-length play- Arena, A House Musical. She has written, co-directed & produced with Casa 0101 two full-length Plays, Locked Up and You Don't Know Me.  She has over half a dozen short plays and Monologues combined with Brown and Out LGBTQ festival and Chicanas, Cholas y Chisme. In 2014, she wrote Matriarchy, a short monologue which was later turned into a short film in 2017, by filmmaker/ Director Rosa Navarrete, starring Lauren Ballesteros & co-directed by Patricia Zamorano.  Matriarchy Short Film 2017 was accepted into CHIFF, HPFF, has made its rounds around Los Angeles County, The Fullerton Museum & Screened in Berlin, Germany at the Schwules Museum in 2019. She is honored to be included in the 50 Playwrights Project and is an award recipient from the neighborhood of Boyle Heights for her artistic contributions. 

Marlene Luna is an actor, writer and marketing director from South Gate, CA. They began their career as a director of wholesale sales/marketing and journalist in the Mixed Martial Arts Industry. They also play a principal role as Lucio's mother, Orfa Torrez in Arena: A House Musical. They've written for such publications as MMA Authority Magazine and MMA Weekly and started performing sketch comedy + improv while attaining their bachelors degree in journalism from CSULB. Landing a lead role in Casa 0101's production of Miss East LA in 2018 pushed Marlene into furthering their acting career and has since been part of audience choice award-winning plays & short films and a national commercial. They are honored and grateful to be part of the Arena production team + cast and excited to work creatively and professionally to push Latinx and LGBTQ+ stories forward. They are also an avid roller skater, parent to 2 awesome little girls and proud partner to Marcos.