Jaime Lozano, Florenica Cuenca, and Adrian Alexander Alea’s Guild Hall William P. Rayner Artist-in-Residence will be a focused creative residency devoted to developing a new musical titled, Él y Ella. Inspired by the true story of two Mexican artists who fall in love and move to New York on a whim, the piece explores the exhilaration and cost of building a life through art while honoring their roots and raising their Mexican-American son. Living at the intersection of love story and immigrant journey, the work blends Mariachi, Cumbia, Ranchera, Corrido, and Norteña in Spanglish, performed with four multi-instrumentalists. Storytelling is propelled by live looping, vocals, and immersive sound design, carrying the audience between the present moment and the memories that shape who we become.
ABOUT JAIME LOZANO
JAIME LOZANO (book, music and lyrics) is a Mexican multi-hyphenate musical theatre storyteller considered by Lin-Manuel Miranda as the “next big thing” on Broadway. American Theatre Wing’s Jonathan Larson Grant 2022. Rhinebeck Writers Retreat 2025. Goodspeed Opera House’s Johnny Mercer Grove Writers 2025. 2025 Uncharted Concert Series Artist Residency at Greenwich House Music School. Pipeline Arts Foundation winner 2025. Dramatists Guild Fellow 2024-2025. Lincoln Center Resident Artist 2023. Joe’s Pub Working Group 2020-2022. The Civilians R&D Group 2020-2021. JACK Resident Artist 2021. Selected works: El Otro Oz -formerly The Yellow Brick Road– (TheaterWorksUSA and The Atlantic Theatre Company, Winner of The Off-Broadway Alliance Award for Best Family Musical 2023-24), Carmen La Cubana (European Tour), Children of Salt (NYMF 2016 “Best of Fest” Production), A Never- Ending Line (Comédie Nation in Paris, France & Off-Broadway), Desaparecidas (JACK). Broadway: Real Women Have Curves (dance arrangements). Albums: “A Never-Ending Line,” “Jaime Lozano and the Familia: Songs by an Immigrant” released by Broadway Records. “Songs by an Immigrant Vol. 2,” “Songs by an Immigrant Vol. 3” released by Concord Theatricals Recordings. Film: “In The Heights” (orchestrations), “Tick, Tick… Boom!” (cameo in Broadway composers scene). His project “Jaime Lozano & The Familia” has performed sold out concerts at venues such as Joe’s Pub, 54 Below, The Green Room 42, Two River Theater, Sony Hall, and as part of the prestigious Lincoln Center’s American Songbook Series. Currently working on Frida, The Musical, ROJA (NAMT 2025), Él y Ella. BFA: Music & Composition, Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León; MFA: NYU/Tisch, Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program (Full Tuition Scholarship); part of the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop. Proud member of the Dramatists Guild of America, AFM Local 802, BMI and GRAMMY and Latin GRAMMY voting member.
www.jaimelozano.net
@jaimelozano
ABOUT FLORENCIA CUENCA
FLORENCIA CUENCA (book and lyrics) is a Mexican Immigrant multi-hyphenate theatre maker passionate about developing projects that celebrate the intersection of diversity, women, and Latine communities. Broadway: Real Women Have Curves. Off-Broadway: Children of Salt (NYMF2016 Best of Fest), A Never-Ending Line (album available at Broadway Records). As a singer-songwriter she has performed at prestigious venues including Lincoln Center, Joe’s Pub, 54 Below, MASS MoCA, and Washington Performing Arts. Album: Broadway en Spanglish (released by Concord Theatricals Recordings). HOLA Award winner for Outstanding Performance in Musical Theatre (Desaparecidas). SDCF ’24 Directing Fellowship recipient (Las Borinqueñas at Ensemble Studio Theatre) Johnny Mercer Writers Grove at Goodspeed Musicals ’25.
@flowcuenca
ABOUT ADRIAN ALEXANDER ALEA
ADRIAN ALEXANDER ALEA (additional book and lyrics) is a Queer Latiné director and producer working across theater, film, and live events, championing intimate, radical stories at the crossroads of community, pop culture, and cross-platform storytelling. He is Producing Director at the award-winning Off-Broadway company The New Group and a Helen Hayes nominated stage director. His theater collaborations include Disney Theatricals, Lincoln Center, The Public Theater, New York City Center’s Encores!, Gala Hispanic Theater, Williamstown Theater Festival, INTAR, and more. As a filmmaker, Adrian produced “A West Side Story Story” (2025 Tribeca & New York Latino Film Festivals), “You Go Girl!” (2022 Sundance, sold to Condé Nast), Intent to the Spirit starring Moses Sumney & LaChanze, and O-Dogg featuring Tariq “Black Thought” Trotter. He served as Associate Director for NBC’s Annie Live! and previously worked with Jennifer Lopez on her Las Vegas residency All I Have and the “Ain’t Your Mama” video. Adrian holds a BA from Columbia and an MS from Northwestern. He is represented by Lizzy Weingold & Jack Pallone at WME.
adrianalea.com
@adrian_a_alea