Genie Montalvo

≤Cleanup|date=April 2008Puerto Rican actress, director, producer and author. Born in San Juan, November 25, 1951. She started her first company in Puerto Rico in 1980. As president and CEO of Palco Inc., she had the opportunity of working and overseeing all aspects of multi-media entertainment projects which included Theater, Film, TV and Concerts. Her duties have included script writing, promotions, public relations, human resources and artistic direction. For Genie "Art is the heart of her culture". She starred in Melinda Lopez's “How Do You Spell Hope” with the Underground Railway Theater at the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C.and in the award winning “The Order of Things” in Boston for Playwrites Theater Company. Her stage credits include Hamlet (the only puertorrican woman to undertake the characterization of the prince of Denmark) and Hecuba of the Troyan Women. She has also received critical acclaim for her Bernarda Alba by Federico Garcia Lorca performed in Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic and Boston. Genie directed "Bodas de Sangre" for Lorca in the Park Festiival in Boston and "el Primer Tagazo for U-Mass, Boston. Among her film credits is Carlos Fuentes' La Cabeza de la Hidra, PBS' production of Destinos, and was the lead part of the film "Diabetes" produced by UMASS, Boston. She has also appeared in multiple, Telemundo and Wapa TV daytime dramas including Tres Destinos, Pacto de Amor, Alejandra and Karina Montaner among others. Genie received the "Best Actress of the Year Award" given by the Theater Critics Association of Puerto Rico for her lead role in "El Lado Obscuro del Espejo" in 1993. She can be seen soon, in the made for TV movie "Indigo" produced by Von Marie Mendez. As an accomplished producer, Genie presented the only public appearance of Ray Charles in Concert in Puerto Rico and directed Ricky Martin as Jesus in The Passion and Death of Christ. Among her other credits, Genie was Extra Casting Coordinator for "The Blue Diner". An inspiring bilingual film, which won the best film award at the 2001 New England Film/Video Festival. She has just finished the first of a series of memoirs. The Memoir, "Cruzar el Charco", is also being adapted into a screenplay. Genie also participated in the First Orlando Latino Film Festival in Oct.2007 as a speaker on “Acting in Films. Ms.Montalvo is married to Christian Berrios, has four sons, Esteban, Ricardo, Jose, and Fernando and four grandsons, Francisco, Kristian, Daniel, and Fernando Jr. She is also a legal and medical interpreter, aiding our Limited English Hispanic brothers in Massachusetts where she currently resides.