Ela Troyano is a video artist, filmmaker, and theater director whose work explores language, performance, music, cinema, and gender. Latin Boys Go to Hell (1998), a gay coming-of-age love story in the form of a Mexican soap opera, was her debut independent feature film. She is the writer, producer, and director of La Lupe: Queen of Latin Soul (2007), a documentary on the legendary Afro-Cuban pop singer that aired on the PBS series Independent Lens. Troyano’s work has been seen at New York’s Public Theater, the Guggenheim Museum, INTAR Theatre, Performance Space 122, and Highways.