I was the first person to come into New York with a Latin American point of view which was also very much influenced by political happenings in Latin America.
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When I came for the first time to the United States, visiting, I was absolutely fascinated by New York.
I've always loved New York City and the idea of a cultural exchange: the immigrants coming to America.
I majored in political science, and my concentration was U.S. involvement in Latin America in the 20th century.
I'm an immigrant kid who came to America from India when I was very young and grew up in New York City with a single mom and really was influenced by all of those immigrant cultures bumping up against each other.
I definitely feel like a native New Yorker. My personality was formed there.
It's a project that touched me as an immigrant and as a New Yorker.
I grew up in New York.
I think of my father and how confused he was by me. He understood my love for theater, and he understood that New York City was the only place that it was happening in America, really, in any live way.
The thing that always attracted me to New York was the sense of being in a place where a lot of people had a lot of stories not unlike mine. Everybody comes from somewhere else. Everyone's got a Polish grandmother, some kind of metamorphosis in their family circumstances. That's a very big thing - the experience of not living where you started.
I've been to New York a lot. I grew up in London but I'm from Chile originally.
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