Interview with Miriam Colon

The NYPR Archive Collections | Jan 1, 2000

This is an interview with Miriam Colon, founder of the Puerto Rican Traveling Theater, a street theater company. She has acted in seventeen plays in New York City and five major Hollywood films, including "One-Eyed Jacks" and "Appaloosa," as well as many Broadway and Off-Broadway shows. She is a member of the Actors Studio and part of Mayor John Lindsay's Cultural Council.

Colon discusses Perry Thomas' Golden Street, which she is directing and performing with her street theater company.



Audio courtesy of the NYC Municipal Archives WNYC Collection


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