Spotlight on ‘Anna in the Tropics’ actor Grace Delvalle-Hernandez
In celebration of National Hispanic Month, Lab Theater in downtown Fort Myers is producing playwright Nilo Cruz’s period play, Anna in the Tropics. Grace Delvalle-Hernandez plays Ofelia Alcalar.
While Ofelia’s husband, Santiago, is clearly the patriarch of the Alcalar family, Ofelia is the glue who holds their tiny 
family-owned Ybor City cigar factory together in the wake of her husband’s growing gambling and alcohol addictions. Both work to strain their long-standing relationship, but it is clear that Ofelia still loves her crazy old man and wants to support him any way she can. Delvalle-Hernandez strikes just the right balance between anger and devotion, exasperation and fear.
Delvalle-Hernandez began acting 39 years ago with the Puerto 
Rican Traveling Theater as a teenager under Manuel Maisonet. She played parts in Minutes Before the End, The House of Bernarda Alba, Women Beware Women, A Streetcar Named Desire, RENT, and West Side Story, among others. She wrote and directed the play A Christmas Orphan, and was the stage and prop manager for the 2017 
release of Believe. Recently, she began to travel internationally to teach public speaking and acting to impoverished youth. She is returning to the stage after a hiatus from acting.
September 21, 2018.
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Tom Hall is both an amateur artist and aspiring novelist who writes art quest thrillers. He is in the final stages of completing his debut novel titled "Art Detective," a story that fictionalizes the discovery of the fabled billion-dollar Impressionist collection of Parisian art dealer Josse Bernheim-Jeune, thought by many to have perished during World War II when the collection's hiding place, Castle de Rastignac in southern France, was destroyed by the Wehrmacht in reprisal for attacks made by members of the Resistance operating in the area. A former tax attorney, Tom holds a bachelor's degree as well as both a juris doctorate and masters of laws in taxation from the University of Florida. Tom lives in Estero, Florida with his fiancee, Connie, and their four cats.