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Verónica Lynn

Veronica Lynn, paradigmatic artist and director of the theater project Globetrotters, is a benchmark of Cuban culture. Not only is she recognized for her talent, performance quality and versatility as an actress in the theater, radio, TV and films, but also for having managed to seduce various publics of Cuba, Latin America, Europe and the United States during the past six decades with her fascinating charisma.
Television arrives in Havana in the fifties and with it the opportunity to take part in contests through the TV School program by Gaspar Pumarejo; she wins the contest and is selected to be part of its cast, playing different characters from classics adapted to the TV.
In 1954, she starred in Rain or The Harlot of the Islands, written by Somerset Maughman and directed by Erick Santamaria in the Experimental Theater of Art (Teda, Spanish acronym). There she met the actor Angel Toraño and others who constituted the most important generation of Cuban actors of all time. “We started to discover that the theater did not have to be big, we could set it up in small spaces with the audience sitting on scissors chairs, knee to knee with the actors. Of course, this was at first widely criticized and classified as commercial. However, the actors worked from Tuesday to Sunday free of charge, we were paying for the opportunity to let people see what we were doing and that was wonderful, real theater was done.”

Santa Camila of Old Havana, written by Jose R. Brene and directed by Adolfo de Luis, one of the celebrities who brought the theory of Konstantin Stanislavski to Cuba with the theater group Jacinto Milanes, was her first success. In her role as Camila, she played a fanatical believer in afro-Cuban religion that later on became a character model to play in the Cuban acting industry. 
She reveals herself as a disciple of the method of this great Russian creator and appreciative of the works by Jerzy Grotowski, Eugenio Barba and Bertolt Brecht: “The actor must study hard to play a character if we consider that a play of any kind is a fragment of the life of a human being.”
Another of her great successes was Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, with Jose Antonio Rodriguez and directed by Rolando Ferrer for La Rueda Group. In the play, she takes the role of an alcoholic and frustrated woman who grew up in her hands and acquired a unique depth. "Past time was never better, but it has its charms. Difficult times should be taken as experiences. The techniques to deal with a character, to study it, get into it, give it its skin is only one and is the same for radio, film, television or theater. The means of expression are different and the important thing is to have imagination."

Contactos
J no. 458 (altos) e/ 21 y 23, El Vedado, Plaza de la Revolución, La Habana, Cuba.
Telf.: (53) 7832 9555 / 7836 8187 / 7836 5844 
Email: actuar@cubarte.cult.cu  /  comercial_actuar@cubarte.cult.cu