Orlando Ferrand(I)

Orlando Ferrand is an award-winning writer and multidisciplinary artist who also teaches creative writing and visual arts at various colleges in New York City. A member of PEN America and the National Writers Union, he received the 2015 NYSCA/BCA Artist in Community Grant for his multidisciplinary project, Underneath the Accent of My Skin, which is now part of Hostos Community College Division of Continuing Education. He also received the Bronx Recognizes Its Own (BRIO) award in 2014 and the 2011 Artist Summer Institute fellowship from LMCC/Creative Capital. As a visual artist, Mr. Ferrand has been showcased in mainstream museums and art galleries such as The Whitney Museum of American Art, the Leslie/Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art, Luhring Augustine, Jenkins & Co., and Cheim & Read in New York City. Mr. Ferrand has also worked extensively as a production designer, set dresser, lighting designer and art director since the '90s in a myriad of independent film productions, clubs, off-Broadway and international theater projects as well as commercial advertising campaigns. His most notable clients and projects include: Grand Teatro de La Habana, Cuba, Mephisto Teatro-formerly known as Teatro de Los Mundos, Spain-Sapporo Beer, Japan, La MaMa, First Avenue Ensemble and Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in the U.S, the new opera Still Life with Daniel, the Lonely Mutant (which he also wrote and directed and was co-produced by the acclaimed New York Theater Workshop), the short film Ulcera, directed by Latin Grammy nominee Ernesto Fundora, Palladium, The Tunnel, Limelight and The Pyramid Club. He has toured internationally with his theater productions designing his own sets and lighting, and has worked as a script supervisor for the second season of the web series created by Linda Nieves-Powell, Happy Cancer Chick, and as a stage manager for the production of The Wizard Meets the Wiz. Orlando Ferrand is a graduate of Parsons in NYC and the National Institute of Arts in Havana.