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The CEO, founder and "heart and soul" of Caicedo Productions, Veronica Caicedo is an innovative writer, director and producer who has overseen more than 25 successful theatrical productions. Drawing upon her urban cultural experiences and extensive creativity, Caicedo has used her unique vision to produce and/or direct such projects and plays as Closer, The ONE Festival, Indiosyncrasy, Mastering Sex And Tortillas and Faded, among others. She has served as Theater Director for Project Reach Youth and Teatro El Puente, where she is a safe-sex educator. Currently, she is the Managing Theater Director for Teatro LA TEA at the Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center, and Program Theater Director for the Loisaida Players at Loisaida Inc. Caicedo was filmmaker selected official for the 2008 SOL Dance Film Festival in Salt Lake City, Utah, 2008 Herspanic Heritage Month Celebration at Hostos Community College and LaGuardia Community College featured Caicedo's short films Little Courage and Loss Of Innocence In Loisaida, honored in 2007 by the National Puerto Rican Day Parade Inc. for Puerto Rican Heritage Month, 2003 by the Latino College Expo for her work with youth in theater/film education, and in 2002 she was honored by the Department Of Justice-Federal Bureau of Investigation for Hispanic Heritage Month. She has served as a guest panelist for such organizations as HBO, Latinos for Positive Images, Urban Magazine, Boys Club of New York, Association of Hispanic Arts (AHA) and Teatro Stage Fest 07 (Latinas at the Helm).
Though theatre has been the mainstay of her career, Caicedo also has extensive film experience. In addition to producing, writing and directing her first independent feature, Circle of Time, she also produced and directed an independent feature, Shut Up and Do It; an educational short film, Loss Of Innocence In Loisaida, and a two short films, Little Courage and 9/12. In music, Caicedo directed a bachata video, En la Oscuridad. A graduate of SUNY College at Purchase, Caicedo is a member of IFP (Independent Films Projects) and NALIP (National Association of Latino Independent Producers). For more information, check out
www.caicedoproductions.com or www.myspace.com/caicedoproductions.
Gabrielle David, Producer-Public Relations Director, Herspanic Achievement Celebration. Gabrielle David is a poet, writer, photographer, artist, musician, and a producer and editor of local television programs. She has worked as a desktop publisher and word processing specialist for the past twenty years, both at Fortune 500 firms in the NY/NJ area, and through her company, Chimeara Communications, Inc. She is a former partner of hotshots unlimited photography, a photo studio specializing in portraiture, fashion photography, publicity photos and special events, which led to a successful photography exhibit sponsored and held at the Langston Hughes Community Library & Cultural Center in 1986.
David has published several essays on multicultural literature and published the poetry collections: this is me, a collection of poems & things (CCI Books, 1994); and spring has returned & i am renewed (CCI Books, 1995). Her work was published in Paterson Literary Review, Journal of New Jersey Poets, AIM Magazine, and phati’tude Literary Magazine. She has also appeared at numerous venues, including: St. Mark's Church, Oded Halahmy Foundation for the Arts, Barnes & Noble (Edgewater, NJ), Asian American Writers' Workshop, Fordham University and Rutgers University. As editor of phati’tude Literary Magazine, an award-winning quarterly publication, David has produced and/or performed in numerous "phati’tude" readings and has served as literature coordinator for Langston Hughes Community Library’s successful literature series, "New American Writers of The 90's.& She was the Executive Director and Co-Host of "phatLiterature, A Literary TV Program," and currently serves as Executive Director of the Intercultural Alliance of Artists & Scholars, Inc. (IAAS), a New York-based nonprofit organization that promotes multicultural literature and literacy. In her spare time, she is a rabble rouser and writes for her blog, Rabble Rouser’s Forum and occasionally writes for The Huffington Post.