Vincent Toro Theater Arts Director Vincent Toro is a Puerto Rican poet, playwright, performer, and music producer from New York . He holds a B.A. in English and Theater from Rutgers University . Before joining the GCAC family, Mr. Toro worked for 7 years as an artist and teacher for Teachers & Writers Collaborative, the Dreamyard Drama Project, and Cooper Union for the Advancement of Arts and Sciences. Prior to that, he was traveling, writing, and teaching in Turkey. In 2005, Mr. Toro was awarded an Honorable Mention for the Allen Ginsberg Poetry Prize . He was also the winner of Global Rhythm Magazine's 2004 Unsigned Artist of the Year Award . In 2001, he was recipient of an associate artist residency with the Atlantic Center for the Arts in Florida. Having gotten his start as an apprentice for NY's Latino Experimental Fantastic Theater , he went on to be a member of The Bronx' New Scroll Bearers' Playwright circle . His plays have been produced Off-off Broadway for INTAR's New Works Lab Series , for the 2005 Urban Pop Festival , The Urban Expressionist's Lab Theater , and for the 2005 Songs From Coconut Hill Festival of Latino Playwrights . He composed the music for the 2005 Fringe Festival Play , " Sleeping with Management" and for The Women's Project annual " Not A Play" series. Mr. Toro has been published in Coloring Book: An Anthology of Multicultural Poems and Stories (Rattlecat Press, 2004), Word is Bond, Issue #2  (Unblind Publications, 2005), Rattapallax' Shortfuse Issue #2 (2004), in the forthcoming Paterson Literary Review #35 (2006), and in The Aquarian Arts Weekly of NJ , where he served as Theater Arts editor. He has appeared on WBAI's " Latino Journal ," and on WKCR's "Composed on the Tongue," and has performed for Dixon Place's Latino Poets and Playwrights series , at The Nuyorican Poets Café , The Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center , The NY International Latino Film Festival , The Harlem Theater Company , The Jack Kerouac Festival in Massachusetts, Halcyon Brooklyn, The Howl Festival , The Angel Orensanz Center , and The Bronx Academy of Art and Dance . This year Mr. Toro will be a featured writer/lecturer at the 2006 Dodge Poetry Festival . He can also be seen in the documentary film " The Source , " starring Johnny Depp.   Anna De Luna Theater Arts Instructor Theater Arts Instructor Anna De Luna, a native to San Antonio has been acting professionally for 15 years and received her training at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York City . She has toured the United States with the National Theater of the Performing arts and also acted/directed for the American Theater Company in Brussels , Belgium .  Anna has performed in leading roles at the Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center in the productions, Milagritos at the Virgen de Guadalupe, Ay Pedro, Posada Majica and Surcos de Oro and co-wrote/performed in the original production of Reunion for the Festival Libre Enganche  and Latino Odyssey at the Jump Start Performance Co.  She has also performed with the Renaissance Guild Act I Series, Bat Boy - The Musical at the Majik Theater, SAC, UTSA and the 24 th St. Experiment at Our Lady of the Lake University. She most recently appeared in San Pedro's Playhouse production of Anna In The Tropics as Conchita.  Currently, Ms. De Luna teaches theater to children and adults through the Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center and SAISD's 21 st Century Program.  Anna has also performed children's theater as part of the Traveling Fairy Tale Company at the Majik Theater and is a founding member of Cuentro Theater.