About Us



Front row (L to R): Jorge Zambra, Carmen Falla Aramayo, Ana Ilvento Scuseria, Claudia Soroka & Marcela Salas (Artistic Director).

Back row (L to R): Esteban Gago & Sergio Amsel.

Gente de Teatro is a non-profit organization and its members “perform” in many capacities: set designers, marketers, promoters, directors, and yes, actors. Flexibility, adaptability, hard work, great enthusiasm and dedication are the common ingredients in all our productions. We are limited in resources but limitless in our passion and love for the theater.

The members of Gente de Teatro are:

Claudia Soroka (Managing Director), Marcela Walter Salas, PhD. (Artistic Director), Sergio Amsel, (Literary Advisor), Carmen Falla Aramayo (Assistant to the Director), Ana Ilvento Scuseria (Community Relations Director), Esteban Gago (Technical Director), and Jorge Zambra (Legal Advisor).

Since 1994 Hamman Hall at Rice University has been our “home” for the performances. This great facility –that in some ways defines us as a group- has been generously made available to us by the Department of Hispanic Studies at Rice University. We could not be where we are without their support!       

Other institutions and organizations have also been supportive of Gente de Teatro throughout the years and helped us in making it all possible:

  • Center for the Study of Languages at Rice University
  • Casa Argentina de Houston
  • The Institute of Hispanic Culture
  • Fiesta Supermarket
  • Consulate General of Spain in Houston
  • Casa de Espaņa
  • Best Buy

Our families and friends, visiting artists, and volunteers, have been a constant source of great support and motivation for Gente de Teatro.  Our audiences, our loyal followers, have been our inspiration and the force that keeps our dreams alive!