Irene Sofia Lucio
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Irene is a skilled actress in Theater, TV and Film. She is also a writer, content creator and producer
Latest Win
The Undertaking at BAM — 09/21/2016
"The Undertaking" a new play by the Civilians going to BAM directed by Steve Cosson
BUTS Webseries Episode 4: Spanish Class
Lucy and Timmy get way more than they bargained for when they set out to learn Spanish in a week. BUTS official website: http://bit.ly/1sFCTNR Twitter: https...
BUTS Webseries Episode 3: Zumba Class
Irene and Emma go to a Zumba class and Irene gets turned off by the racist moves. Emma tries to get her in the mood to no avail. BUTS official website: http:...
BUTS Webseries Episode 1: Latina Audition for Sneaky Helpers
Emma goes in to an audition for "Sneaky Helpers" and gets forced by the casting team (Irene and Jakob) to do all kinds of racist performances. BUTS official ...
BUTS Webseries Episode 5: Jiggle Flan
Calle and Eliel are the biggest reggaeton stars to set foot on american soil. BUTS was there to witness the making of their next album: JIGGLE FLAN El Album....
BUTS Webseries Episode 2: Maria Full of Taste
B.U.T.S is a sketch comedy web series created by Emma Ramos and Irene Sofia Lucio that spoofs stereotypes. In this episode they spoof Maria Full of Taste, or...
Geoff Russel is a Total Douche Part II
Geoff Russel is a Total Douche Part III
The third and final installment of the comedy web series Geoff Russell is a Total Douche.
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Irene Sofia Lucio is a Boricua! Born in San Juan, Puerto Rico, she discovered a passion for performing in childhood roles like Annie and Peter Pan. Total nerd in life, she later attended Princeton University where she majored in Comparative Literature and Theater. But the theater bug bit her so hard that she went back to school to become a legit actress. She formalized her acting training at the Yale School of Drama where she was awarded the Herschell Williams award for excellence in acting. Since then she has been pursuing a career as a professional actor in New York City and producing her own work.
Irene's has multiple credits in theater (including Broadway, Off-Broadway and Regional Theater). She is known for her transformative ability as a performer with roles as varied as Juliet in Romeo and Juliet, Eliza Doolittle in Pygmalion, and Daphna in Bad Jews, She is currently in a two-person Civilians show called "The Undertaking" which is touring to BAM and Theatre de la Ville in Paris.
Irene produces, writes, and performs in her webseries BUTS which stands for Bilingual, Underrepresented, Titless, Sallies. It seeks to subvert Latino stereotypes through a millennial Latina lens. She cannot believe that she will be going to an awards ceremony with Latino super stars and has no idea what she will wear.
Irene has recently broken into TV and film with various projects and original productions that are coming up. She could not be more excited for what lies ahead.
appearance
The Undertaking at BAM
"The Undertaking" a new play by the Civilians going to BAM directed by Steve Cosson
milestone
Imagen Award Nomination for Best Webseries 'BUTS'
The Imagen Foundation today announced the nominees for the 31st Annual Imagen Awards, the only Latino entertainment awards event dedicated to honoring the positive portrayal and creative excellence of Latinos and Latino cultures in television and film. The Imagen (Spanish for “image”) Awards will be presented on Friday, September 9, at The Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, Calif. For 31 years the Imagen Foundation has been at the forefront of championing and celebrating inclusion and diversity in the entertainment industry.
appearance
Atlantic Theater Workshop of "The Band's Visit"
World Premiere Musical THE BAND’S VISIT book by ITAMAR MOSES music & lyrics by DAVID YAZBEK directed by DAVID CROMER based on the screenplay by Eran Kolirin Linda Gross Theater, 336 W 20th St. November 2016 – January 2017 An Egyptian Police Band arrives in Israel to play a concert. After a mix-up at the border, they are sent to a remote village in the middle of the desert. With no bus until morning and no hotel in sight, these unlikely travelers are taken in by the locals. Under the spell of the desert sky, their lives become intertwined in the most unexpected ways. A new musical based on the critically acclaimed screenplay which received 36 major international awards.
press quote
NY Times "King Liz" Review
"Ms. Lucio, as the assistant Gabby, registers a kind of festering energy that reflects her impatience at being held back in a menial job she believes she’s outgrown."
milestone
Irene Lucio Represents the Civilians at TED X
The Civilians is the first-ever theater company in residence at The Met. The company’s mission: creating new theater from creative investigations into the most vital questions of the present; advancing theater as an engine of artistic innovation; and strengthening the connections between theater and society. Since its founding in 2001, the Obie Award-winning company has performed at numerous venues including the Public Theater, Vineyard Theatre, BAM Next Wave Festival, Barrow Street Theater, Playwrights Horizons, and the TED Conference. At the Met Museum, The Civilians created theater works for and performed in the Petrie Court, The Temple of Dendur in The Sackler Wing, and the Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium.
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Washington Post "Bad Jews" Review
"The part is manna for an actress who knows how to slip in a shiv, and in Lucio, Seiden and Harmon have a virtuoso at wound-infliction; the barbs fly in her astonishingly physical performance in ways that turn trash talk into art. Daphna’s quick-draw mind is a scary weapon, and when, via Lucio, she trains it on unsuspecting Melody, a staffer at a nonprofit who (thankfully) has relinquished her opera-singing dreams, the carnage is both riotous and horrific."
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East Bay Express "Pygmalion" Review
"Lucio was a knockout as Eliza. Her prima physicality was just as luminous as her brash, Cockney determination of wanting to "toke lak a laydee...The best scene involved Eliza's first test as a prah-puh laydee — a lunch with Higgins' mother (the effervescent Sharon Lockwood) and three society people. Eliza, dressed in Royal Wedding-esque attire and an enormous hat shaped like a taco (costumes by Anna Oliver), is hilarious in her stilted and robotic attempts to impress her newfound peers with small talk on gin and influenza. Eliza and her father are full of self-conscious theatricality and humanness, which makes Shaw's tendency toward heady speechifying infinitely easier to stomach."
milestone
Caryl Churchill's "Love and Information" American Premiere
Renowned playwright Caryl Churchill returns for her seventh American premiere at New York Theatre Workshop (which have included productions of Far Away and A Number) with a theatrical kaleidoscope exploring more than a hundred characters as they try to make sense of what they find out. Churchill pairs with award-winning director James Macdonald (A Number, Blasted, Top Girls) to create what The Guardian heralds as the “play that everyone should see.” Love and Information was first produced in London at the Royal Court Theatre in 2012. This production reaffirms Churchill’s continued ability to reinvent herself as a playwright and keep her finger on the pulse of contemporary life and features her signature wit, candor and nimble use of language. Produced in association with the Royal Court Theatre.
award
Herschel Williams Prize in Acting
Awarded to a student with outstanding ability in Acting.
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New York Times "Romeo and Juliet" Review
Irene Sofia Lucio, a third-year M.F.A. candidate at the Yale School of Drama, gives a truly memorable performance in the role.With the help of Shana Cooper’s inventive, often inspired direction, Ms. Lucio’s Juliet is a bundle of happy surprises. Presented with her first pair of high heels, she can barely walk in them. After Friar Laurence (Henry Stram) explains his plan for her to fake her death, she imagines waking up in the tomb surrounded by dead bodies and delivers a scary speech evoking that horror. When she does awake and finds Romeo dead, she tries to shake him back to life. ...When audiences hear Juliet’s “all the world will be in love with night” speech, it may seem as if they have never heard it before.
milestone
Amadeus with Michael Stuhlbarg
Played Constanze opposite Stuhlbarg's Salieri
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