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JEZABEL MONTERO

    Jezabel Montero has been in the entertainment industry for over 30 years.  She began as a child actor, starring in commercials at the age of thirteen.  She has been in countless Off Broadway shows and has worked in all mediums.  Jezabel is Cuban-American and a bi-lingual actor who has worked in both Spanish soaps and theatre.  She has worked with the crème de la crème in the New York Latino Theatre Community—Miriam Colon, Rene Buch, Carmen Rivera, Jose Rivera, Max Ferra, Eduardo Machado, Magdalena Gomez, Tony Mata and many more.  She was the anchor for morning traffic and news radio for several New York AM and FM Stations in both Spanish and English.
    In 2008, she won the prestigious H.O.L.A. and ACE awards for Outstanding Achievement by a Featured Female Actor in a Play for her comedic performance in “Dinner for Two” at the Puerto Rican Traveling Theatre.  In 2003, she co-founded Kismet Theatre Company, a non-profit theatre company based in Hoboken, New Jersey.  In 2007, she founded her own independent film company, Fuacata Films (formerly No Clout Productions).  Her first film produced, directed and written by her, “Blondes Are Latin Too” was nominated for Best Short Documentary at the Bronx Independent Film Festival of 2008.  She received the Special Jury Award and the Indieflix Online Audience Award for Best Short Documentary of 2008 at the Orlando Hispanic Film Festival.  "The Basement" which she produced, wrote and directed in 2011, was in two major NYC film festivals. 
    Her first feature film, 13 time award winning, Cassanova Was A Woman, was acquired by Gravitas Ventures and released in fall 2016.  Jezabel works as a script doctor and is currently developing an LGBT comedy series and three other features. 

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