Larissa Maltez (she/her)
Actor/Producer
My name is Larissa Maltez. I am Salvadoran, a first-year student at the Art of Acting Studio. I have been involved in theater in my country with independent groups. I was the winner of the first Salvadoran Hispanic festival organized by the Cultural Center of Spain in El Salvador and of the “Triángulo Teatro” call, part of the Triángulo Teatro program (Central American European Theater Circuit) for the production and exhibition of theatrical works, involving cultural agents from El Salvador, Honduras, and Guatemala. Additionally, I have been the lead in the documentary “The Fishes Within,” premiered at the Locarno Festival in Switzerland, and in the documentary “Índigo,” winner of the Audience Award at the Chicago Latino Film Festival and the Icaro Central American Film Festival.
I have experience conducting theater workshops for marginalized communities, including adolescents and children, as well as individuals who have been formerly incarcerated. I have also presented theatrical productions in unconventional community settings.
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LA CANCIÓN DE NUESTROS DÍAS
(The song of our days)
“La canción de nuestros días” is a play of memory, entirely in Spanish, a space where forgotten or lost voices gather under the shade of an almond tree to weave a shared story with the threads of recollection. Three voices, one story: “La canción de nuestros días” recreates the life of three sisters in the inhospitable mountainous region of northern Morazán, El Salvador, just before the war transformed that world forever.
With its imposing natural landscapes, crystal-clear springs, and legendary wildlife, Morazán was the unforgiving backdrop of a closed, yet fertile culture where popular music was cultivated with special care, and love was the cornerstone of family life, helping them endure the isolation and poverty of the small communities in which they lived.
This is, therefore, a story of rupture. In the comic, emotional, cruel, and hopeful tales of three women, the end of timelessness and the arrival of history are recorded—the precise moment when a state of innocence is replaced by an awakening of awareness.
In “La canción de nuestros días”, identity is not built on what separates us from others, or what makes us different, but rather on what unites us with others, with those we identify with and love. For all these reasons, we can affirm that culture is like love: it is what remains when we believe everything has been lost.
