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Melia Bensussen

Honored by Cynthia Citron, Encino, Calif., August 3, 2005
As a theater reviewer, I've chosen to honor Melia Bensussen, director and teacher. As a director she is well-known on Broadway and has won an Obie, the top honor for off-Broadway productions. As a teacher, she is producing director of Emerson Stage at Emerson College in Boston. Born in New York in 1963, she grew up in Mexico City, where she went to a Zionist/Jewish school that conducted its classes in Spanish and Hebrew.  Eventually she and her parents, Isaac and Abot, and her siblings Jake, Willy, and Becky returned to America and settled in San Diego, where her parents and sister Becky still live. Her years in Mexico City have stayed with her, however, and she is still heavily involved with Latino theater and playwrights.  Her first job in New York, in fact, was with Festival Latino, a wing of Joseph Papp's Public Theater. For her ties to both Jewish and Latino cultures, which reflects the cultural mix in San Diego, I am proud to recommend her as an honoree of the Louis Rose Society.
—Cynthia Citron, Encino, Calif., August 4, 2005

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