ABOUT BROWNSVILLE BRED:

The setting is dark. A Latin song plays. You don’t have to understand Spanish to feel the meaning of its words. A white sheet hangs on a clothesline, and on it we see images being projected of ghetto life: Uncleaned streets, pregnant teen girls, drug dealers and gang bangers. In that ghetto is one of the most crime ridden housing projects in New York called The Langston Hughes housing projects, in Brownsville, Brooklyn, just one square mile long, also known as the wasteland. It's rare that anyone gets out unharmed or unscarred. Most aren't that lucky. This is the inspiring story of Elaine DelValle. A story of a young Latina who almost didn't make it.   Even in her darkest moments, she found something to believe in.  She soon learned that what defines you isn't where you come from, it's where you want to go.

SOME REVIEWS:

“By the end of this moving evening, you’ll be cheering her unstoppable joy and the inner strength it took to earn it” NEW YORK POST

“From Girlhood Trials to Onstage Triumph” THE NEW YORK TIMES

“A female John Leguizamo” WCBS Radio

“Attending…should be required for anyone who ever for one moment doubted the indomitable power of the human spirit.” NEW TIMES