This year is New York Stage and Film’s 40th Season; the summer season will launch in Poughkeepsie on July 11 with Christina Pumariega’s “Vidas privadas,” which has been described as “a bipartisan blasphemy of NOËL COWARD and MIAMI DADE.” It will be staged on Friday, July 11, 2025, at 7:00pm, at the Nelly Goletti Theater (Marist University, 3399 North Road, Poughkeepsie, New York).

Description: Cesar and Celia are top campaign managers on opposite sides of the partisan divide. They also used to be married. They also just rocked up to Ibiza to honeymoon with their new spouses… Coward wrote it, but Cubans explode it–rocketing from old world to the new, from the ballot box to the bedroom in a no-holds barred immigrant debate that’s smart, sexy and f*cking uproarious. 

VIDAS PRIVADAS is commissioned by Two River Theater (Justin Waldman, Artistic Director, Nora DeVeau-Rosen, Managing Director).

VIDAS PRIVADAS is being developed in a special arrangement with the Noël Coward Estate.

Christina Pumariega: Born in Nashville and raised all over the Southern US in Texas, South Carolina and Tennessee, Christina was raised on the cultural hyphen. Her father is Cuban; her mother is Italian American. She attended Indiana University’s School of Journalism and after a fellowship in Cuba received her MFA from the NYU Graduate Acting Program at Tisch School of the Arts.

An accomplished stage actress, Pumariega made her Broadway debut opposite Jeff Goldblum in Seminar, and has performed at New York’s Public Theater and various Off Broadway venues, in theaters across the US and in film, television and national commercials.

Her television writing credits include NBC and Disney+, and most recently she co-executive produced the short film Off The Horse, starring Ed Harris and Amy Madigan, via her company PUMA LIBRE.

Bio source: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3708121/

For tickets, visit https://www.tix.com/ticket-sales/nystageandfilm/6976/event/1428583