Rubí Theater Company

Over the years, the Rubí Theater Company produced and performed original works by individuals within the company and other Latinxs living in the United States. They mentored and promoted emergent Latinx artists—playwrights, choreographers, hip hop dancers, rappers, and singers. Although the artists came from different places (Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic, Brazil, Columbia, Ecuador, Mexico, and New York), and from all walks of life, they were all hungry to discover new ways of understanding and affirming their places in the larger social fabric of New York City and our nation. 

The Rubí Theater Company worked with teenage artists to create art that would be socially relevant to a future generation, and their work was energized with the beauty of poetry, hip-hop language—both physical and verbal—and the dynamism of our Latinx urban culture. Their work brought to the surface issues of colonialism, slavery, racism, immigration, environmental injustice, education inequities, poverty, gender discrimination, and other conditions and experiences that threatened the survival and existence of our communities.