MISSION

Throughout its 24 years of national and international artistic accomplishments, Dramarama is committed to bringing the best of World Theater with original work creations and engaging subject matters of great social and cultural significance.

We believe passionately that our audience deserves the opportunity to engage the imagination and conscience through the creation of living experiences that explore our human condition promoting enlightenment and quality entertainment. With new and fresh styles and methods, Dramarama addresses issues that affect our society identifying the audience with what they’re experiencing, making them think and feel, in laughter, tears, loving or plain joy. We pride ourselves in providing a platform for artists to create, evolve and grow, and in representing an essential educational resource for our community.

VALUES

Dramarama is proven to be a solid organization of the highest quality sustained throughout the years, with 65+ first-rate productions that demonstrate our administrative stability and operational capacity to the highest artistic and cultural standards. We have been awarded on many occasions, including several “Best Play/Musical of the Year” awards, with rave reviews from press and media, and selected to several important International Theater Festivals. Its Artistic Director, Carlos Acevedo, has been awarded the “Best Playwright Award” on three occasions (2002, 07, 15).

Dramarama, Inc. brings the highest-quality theatre productions across genres in a provocative, imaginative and accessible style. We produce shows of national and international relevancy through a contemporary 21st century lens. We also provide a home for leading artists and a training ground for the new generation of theatre artists.

We give special emphasis to our educational theatre repertory program for school students through large first-rate live performances from the greatest classic books in world literature. This program responds to a need of students to experience live representations of these literature classics that make an integral part of their English (or Spanish) curriculum, to complement the study and analysis in class. By faithfully representing its classic treatment in strict concordance to its book source for pedagogical purposes, these big stage productions constitute an important contribution to their education and intellectual development, and an essential educational tool for English/Spanish teachers in their class curriculum.

In the educational theater area, Dramarama has been prominent in its outstanding school plays repertory of world literature classics such as “HAMLET” and “ROMEO AND JULIET” (William Shakespeare), "THE SCARLET LETTER" (Nathaniel Hawthorne), "THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER” (Marc Twain), “THE OUTSIDERS” (S.E. Hinton), “CHARLOTTE’S WEB” (E.B. White), “THE GREAT GATSBY” (F. Scott Fitzgerald), “THE LITTLE PRINCE” (Antoine De Saint Exupery), “DON QUIJOTE DE LA MANCHA” (Miguel De Cervantes) and “OLIVER TWIST” (Charles Dickens), amongst others.

For the general public, Dramarama has created important and relevant cultural-theatrical projects such as the WORLD PREMIERE of the stage adaptation from the best selling book “ELEVEN MINUTOS” (“Once Minutos”) by world renowned author Paulo Coelho, the American Premiere from another Coelho book “VERONIKA DECIDES TO DIE”, the American Premiere of the stage adaptation from the Oscar winning film “ALL ABOUT MY MOTHER” by acclaimed director Pedro Almódovar, contemporary masterpieces like “ANGELS IN AMERICA”, “GLENGARRY GLEN ROSS” (David Mamet), “DEATH OF A SALESMAN” (Arthur Miller), musicals like "GREASE", a version of the “CARMEN” opera, the Guinness book record play “THE MOUSETRAP” (Agatha Christie), and several original plays written by Carlos Acevedo, all great artistic successes and box-office hits.

We’re creating experiences to stimulate the imagination and ignite enlightenment that connects to our shared human experience, to learn about us.