Ela Troyano

Ela Troyano is a writer, director, and producer born in La Habana and based in New York City. Her sister, Alina Troyano (aka Carmelita Tropicana), is a longtime collaborator,

Art imitates life, though today a lot is the other way around. You always pushed the boundaries much before I did. You had vision and got us to relocate to the wild East Village in the eighties where crime and drugs made rents cheap and artists came in droves to a neighborhood that looked like a bombed-out Berlin after the war and performance clubs sprung up, operating with no licenses or city permits.
Carmelita Tropicana Your Kunst Is Your Waffen, 1994. Film still by Paula Court. Courtesy Ela Troyano.

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