Our Team
Pablo Andrade
Executive Director
Actor, director, producer, and teaching artist. Pablo is Artistic Director of Corezon, Founder of La Guía Cultural, and faculty member of HB Studio, NYU Tisch and Moment Work Institute. As a teacher, he has trained actors in the US, Latin America and Europe. As a director, he has been mentored by Tony Award recipients Jack Hofsiss and Thomas Kail. As an actor, he played the leading role of the New York Times Critics’ Pick production of Mario Vargas Llosa’s Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter, and dozens of other plays and films. Pablo Andrade is a proud alumnus of the HB Studio and Hagen Institute as well as the Cultural Visitor Program of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Some of his awards include: ATI Awards for Best Director Monologue (2020) and Breakthrough Director (2018), Fuerza Award for Best Director (2017), and Latin ACE Award for Best Actor Drama (2015).
Monica Delgado
Member Services Coordinator
Monica Delgado is a SAG-AFTRA actor, dancer-choreographer, and voiceover artist. She recently received the Best Supporting Actress Award from the International Filmmaker Festival of World Cinema Berlin 2017 & Milan 2016 for the film Bx3M. Film and television credits Irish Blues; Love Speaks; Louise; Bummer; Lunatics, Lovers & Actors; 107th Street; and the pilots “Waterfront” and “Wize Guys”. Theater credits include roles in Sweet Charity, Finian’s Rainbow, Cabaret, Llamada/Rally Cry, Yo Soy Latina, and El Camaleón y las 7 Puertas. Completely fluent in both English and Spanish, and has developed a voiceover career in the Spanish-language market, for brands such as Avon, Kohl’s, Metamucil, Clairol, McDonald’s, and Planned Parenthood, as well as on camera for the New York State Lottery. She is also a proud member of HOLA, R.Evolucion Latina and Pajarillo Pinta’o.
Samuel Garnica
Communication Director
Mathia Vargas
Team Member
Mathia is a born and bred New Yorker. While at the University at Albany she was cast as the lead in her first ever production and was nominated for an Irene Ryan award for her performance. She continued performing in University productions and returned to New York City to continue her career in theatre and film. She has been cast in a number of leading and supporting roles in both theatre and independent films. Most recently she worked with acclaimed filmmaker Jim McKay in a supporting role in her first feature ON THE SEVENTH DAY. Mathia won a 2015 HOLA Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble Cast for her work in the play YOLEROS (Theatrica, 2015).
Julio Ortega
Team Member
Julio Ortega is a bilingual actor, writer and producer graduate at The American Academy of Dramatic Arts. Some credits in Theater include Anna in the Tropics (Santiago), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Flute), Cock (John), Medardo (Medardo Ángel Silva), The Public (White Horse), In Love but Discreet (Hernando), Hablemos a calzon quitado (Juan), The Galapagos Animal Convention (Environmentalist). In TV and Film Ortega has worked in Medardo the film as Medardo Ángel Silva, De la vida real (Ecuavisa), El puente del destino, The Perfect Murder, A Crime to Remember, The Hunt, Wet Shapes. In V.O and radio some credits include for New York City and Univision in La ciencia del amor podcast.
Ursula Tinoco
Team Member
Phoenix Ximénez
Team Member
Phoenix has been a long-standing volunteer and member of HOLA. She has worked on Off-Broadway productions, regional theatre, interactive children’s theatre, indie films, TV and voice-overs. Her credits include War Songs and Woodstock at 40, Bristol Riverside Theatre; Rumple Who? and A Christmas Carol, 13th Street Repertory Theatre; The Children of Hip Hop, independent feature film; On camera host for Horse TV award winning documentary Real Desire; Law & Order (NBC) and One Life To Live (ABC).
Ricardo Stevan
Team Member
Ricardo is a Colombian actor, singer and musical theater director who graduated in design and graphic communication with an emphasis in marketing from the renowned Unitec University in Bogotá, Colombia. His studies and theatrical training were carried out at the school of actors in the city of Barranquilla. As a singer, he was part of Skala Orquesta, where he stood out not only as a leading voice but also as director and composer of many of the songs in this project. In 2014 he settled in New York City where he has been part of several artistic productions for local companies, and with his company Fábrica de Estrellas.
