On Your Feet!

Anna is an acclaimed actor currently making her West End debut, starring as screen icon Ava Gardner in Sinatra, the musical.

She made her Broadway debut originating the role of Gloria Estefan in the Tony-nominated global hit musical On Your Feet, and became a Broadway sensation, leading to roles like Roxy Hart in Chicago and AOC in N.A. at Lincoln Center.

On screen, you may know her from New Amsterdam and Younger on Netflix, and she plays the title character in upcoming feature film Castro's Daughter.

But that's not why she's here today.

not the same it's not and it's not yeah oh my goodness me yeah that's a whole other yeah but yeah so walk me back through that phase when you were in that sort of in denial kind of period of time how did you how did you get yourself out of that because i can also relate heavily to this um how did you sort of um and get back to sort of

acceptance? I really struggled with that, if I'm really, really honest.

And again, the arts somehow came in and saved the day because when I booked On Your Feet, which took me to New York, I was 24.

And, you know, I had already graduated from music school.

We also have...

From On Your Feet, we have Ana Villafane.

Is that how you say her last name? Ana Villafane.

Yeah, I think that's how you say her last name.

2000... 2015.

Bueno, tiene que ser o la obra de On Your Feet or, eh, el concierto que ella hizo para, pa, para Broadway.

El concierto de Viva Broadway era el veinti algo, el quince de septiembre.

Oh, okey.

Pero, pero tú estuviste ahí para la primera presentación en Broadway de On Your Feet, que era el cinco o seis de octubre.

Ya se me ha olvidado porque yo no escribo nada.

¿En Nueva York?

Dinelaris is Cuban and Puerto Rican.

He actually comes from the theater, On Your Feet, which was the Broadway musical about Gloria Estefan.

And then I don't know if anybody saw Xanadu.

It's a really popular community fairy musical, is what they label it.