LATA Awards 2025: RebeccaMartinez
May 28, 2025
Rebecca Martinez received two LATA Awards:
•LATA 2025 Extraordinary Award for Best Play Adaptation “The Comedy of Errors”
•LATA 2025 Innovative Theatrical Concept “The Comedy of Errors”
•The LATA Awards (Latin Alternative Theater Awards), created by Héctor Luis Productions under the direction of Héctor Luis Sin Censura, have celebrated Latino alternative theater since 2017 in New York, New Jersey and nearby areas. These awards not only honor local artists but also recognize international organizations, institutions and artists who have played a significant role in this artistic evolution. It is a platform that seeks to highlight the contribution and importance of alternative art in these communities, providing recognition to those who have promoted and enriched this field.
Rebecca Martinez (she/her) is a multidisciplinary director and the Cohort Collaborations Director for One Nation One Project. Recent projects: “Bite Me” (WP Theater / Colt Coeur), “It Happened in Key West” (Fulton Theatre), “Sancocho” (WP Theater), “Living and Breathing” (Two River), “Randy’s Dandy Coaster Castle”(Egg & Spoon Collective), “Songs About Trains” (Working Theater and Radical Evolution), “Somewhere Over the Border” (Syracuse Stage and Geva Theatre). Rebecca co-adapted and directed the 2023 & 2024 touring bilingual musical production of “The Comedy of Errors” (The Public Theater’s Mobile Unit, Drama Desk Nomination, Outstanding Adaptation). She has developed new work with The Public Theater, Amas Musical Theater, the O’Neill, Latinx Playwrights Circle, the Sol Project, NAMT, INTAR, Working Theater, The Playwrights Realm, among others. Affiliations: Member of the Obie Award winning Sol Project Collective, TCG Rising Leaders of Color, Lincoln Center Theater Directors Lab, INTAR’s Unit52, New Georges Affiliated Artist, Drama League Directing Fellow, member of SDC. Awards: Colorado Henry Award for Directing; four Portland, Oregon Drammy Awards; Lilla Jewel Award for Women Artists.
