When Melissa Quintans decided to immigrate to the United States, her artistic career was at its full peak of recognition. The actress formed part of the cast of the Teatro Libélula theater company in Bolivia, and she was the assistant director and producer for the René Moreno Theater. Before, in Cuba, she had joined the legendary Buscón theater group with diseased director José Antonio Rodríguez and later to Olga Alonso’s together with Humberto Rodríguez. Now she lives in Arizona. To continue her career she moved to the state of the Grand Canyon, known for its desert landscape, its cacti and the cosmopolitan city of Phoenix. She is the first Cuban to form in that city her own artistic group: Matices Theatre Company. Born in Alamar, to the east of Havana, in the early 1990s, she is sufficiently brave to walk on the edge of any excess. “Acting on the island with the cast is one of my dearest dreams,” she said to OnCuba from that part of the world where around these days the media’s eyes are on her with the premier of the play “Romeo and Juliet,” an adaptation of her compatriot Irán Moya, a fifth-year student of the...