NICHOS
Actor, Music Director, and Composer for Pew-funded project NICHOS alongside Director Tanaquil Márquez. An original 21-person play and 3-year-long community process exploring how colonization and migration impact Mexican identity in Philly. Acted as Criatura (pictured above), a cook, a teenager in Puebla, and a leader of a fandango at the border wall. Produced by Teatro Esperanza and premiered in 2024.
Actor, Director Musical, y Compositor para el proyecto NICHOS con la directora Tanaquil Márquez, fundado por una beca Pew y producido por Teatro Esperanza. Una obra de teatro original para un elenco de 21 personas, que conllevó un proceso comunitario de 3 años explorando cómo la colonización y la migración ha impactado la identidad mexicana en Filadelfia. Ximena actuó como Criatura (en la foto superior), un cocinero, un adolescente en Puebla, y un líder del Fandango Fronterizo. Se estrenó en el 2024.
Dani Who Made a Deal with the Sun
Music Director, Composer and acting as Ronaldo in Dani Who Made a Deal With the Sun, an original bilingual children's musical written by Tanaquil Márquez and produced by Montgomery Theater in 2025. In it, the citizens of Tierra Alta, an island blessed with lush crops, must challenge El Sol, who has exiled the moon and forced everyone into an endless day of constant work. Dani and their friends must go in search of La Luna to restore balance, rest, and save their grandma.
Director Musical, Compositor y actuando como Ronaldo en Dani Who Made A Deal With the Sun, un musical bilingue original para niñxs escrito por Tanaquil Márquez y producido por el Teatro Montgomery en 2025. Cuenta la historia de Tierra Alta, una isla donde los cultivos crecen tanto, que El Sol se aprovechó para exiliar a la luna e imponer un día eterno de trabajo constante. Dani y sus amigues tienen que ir en busqueda de La Luna para restaurar la noche, el descanso, y el balance y salvar a Los Altaños y a su abuelita.
Twelfth Night, O Lo Que Quieras
From 2020 to the cultimating Community Tour in 2022, was a co-composer, musician, and actor as Feste in Delaware Shakespeare's bilingual musical production of Twelfth Night. PlayShakespeare's review described it as "[Ximena] Violante’s Feste is charismatic and dedicated to their cause without losing the character’s playful humor, a key part of the production’s success."
Desde 2020 hasta 2022, participando como compositor, músico y actuando como Feste en la producción bilingüe musical de Twelfth Night, O Lo Que Quieras, de la Delaware Shakespeare Company
fotos de Alessandra Nicole
Broad Street Review called Twelfth Night "cogent, swift, and joyous", saying "the production is also anchored by Violante, an accomplished and passionate singer who plays the jarana (a small Mexican guitar) and whose expertise in the Veracruz son jarocho tradition threads strongly and movingly throughout the play." Read the full review here.
Read Peter Crimmins' coverage in WHYY of our performance at South Philly's beloved Alma del Mar restaurant. Read the article here.