Fernando Dovalina

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  Members Present: Vicente Arenas, Baldemar Rodriguez, Tony Choy, Raul Lareano, Grace Olivares Hernandez, Lourdes Montoya, Frank Morales, Fernando Dovalina, Celeste Zamora, Frida Villalobos, Roxana Sibran, and Bill Balleza.
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  Fernando Dovalina (our new editor) worked with Vicente to write the letter.

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  Out playwright Fernando Dovalina's Ballad of the Lonely Gatekeeper is also among the selections.

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  Josef Molnar profiled Houston playwright Fernando Dovalina for the June 2007 issue of OutSmart magazine.

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  Members Present: Vicente Arenas, Baldemar Rodriguez, Tony Choy, Raul Lareano, Grace Olivares Hernandez, Lourdes Montoya, Frank Morales, Fernando Dovalina, Celeste Zamora, Frida Villalobos, Roxana Sibran, and Bill Balleza.
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  Fernando Dovalina (our new editor) worked with Vicente to write the letter.

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  Other founding members included Fernando Dovalina and Jo Ann Zuñiga, both with the Houston Chronicle, Elma Barrera, KTRK-Channel 13 and Sylvan Rodriguez, KHOU-Channel 11.
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  In 1988, Fernando Dovalina, the Chronicle's Assistant Managing Editor, became president of the group.This was his opportunity to "encourage students to go into journalism/media careers" and for the association to find different fundraising venues for scholarships.He conducted a local essay contest and affiliated the effort with the National Association of Hispanic Journalists (NAHJ).The contest involved writing published and non-published essays and articles in both English and Spanish.The response was tremendous.The concept was a major hit with the participants!The winners traveled to Capitol Hill to receive their scholarship awards."It was a wonderful experience for the students.They were able to get experience in writing, have exposure at school, receive an award, and have an opportunity to travel," Dovalina remembers.
  
  After four years of fundraising and awarding scholarships, HAHMP faced an ever-increasing problem with membership.Word of the organization had not spread far enough nor quickly enough for Channel 11 anchor Sylvan Rodriguez, the organization's third president and the first to serve two terms.He attempted to solve the problem by hosting several successful membership parties at his home and it worked.During his tenure, the membership quickly grew to approximately sixty members.
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  ABC News Correspondent John Quiñones served as keynote speaker for the event. ¨The money raised was a very modest attempt compared to other organizations,¨ Dovalina reflects.

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  Playwright Fernando Dovalina in front of the Alley.
  
  "People will think this is a spoof of her, but it isn't."
  
  Dovalina and JT Buck met with Tammy Faye Messner as they began work on their musical about her life.
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  Former newspaperman Fernando Dovalina has two plays on the boards this month, an Iraq war drama and a musical about televangelist Tammy Faye Bakker Messner.
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  The Tammy Faye musical is one of two works by Dovalina, a former Houston Chronicle editor, on local stages this month.Unhinged Productions is presenting the world premiere of Dovalina's American Homefront, through July 14 at Silver House Theatre.In Homefront, which opened on June 29, the parents of an army lieutenant in Iraq who is kidnapped by a rogue Islamic force come to question their values, their religious faith, and the meaning of patriotism.Unhinged, the GLBT-positive theater company, selected Dovalina as its playwright-in-residence in 2002.
  
  Dovalina joined forces with Buck to create The Gospel According to Tammy Faye when the two men were students in a musical collaboration course at the University of Houston taught by the renowned Broadway producer Stuart Ostrow.
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  "This is about her life, and we made some parts more dramatic, but at the same time, it stays true to who she is," Dovalina says about the two-act musical.
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  Carter said Dovalina approached Bering & Friends members this year and asked them if they would be interested in producing the show.
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  When Dovalina and Buck began writing the play, they used the acclaimed 2000 documentary The Eyes of Tammy Faye (produced by two gay men, Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato) as a basis for research.
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  "One of the things we learned without her saying it, is that she wasn't sure what she had accomplished," Dovalina says.
  
  He points to her efforts to help others as the most widespread of her accomplishments, and says that her attempts to continually grow showed in their meeting, and will appear in the play.
  
  "She had rediscovered her childlike innocence, and so we went back to that," Dovalina says."She found Jesus when she was 10 years old, and we show how maybe on the way she had lost track of that, but had rediscovered that."
  
  "She had no idea what we were doing," he adds, "but I had the feeling that she was facing her mortality, and she wanted to make sure there was some part of her story being told."
  
  Messner's flaws and her redemption combine in the course of the musical to create an interesting personality that Dovalina and Buck think give her a common humanity.
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  "The people [the Bakkers] met along the way that they helped to succeed turned their backs on her when she was down," Dovalina says, "and the people who remembered her were gay men.

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  By FERNANDO DOVALINA, Playwright
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  The show, written by JT Buck and Fernando Dovalina, is The Gospel According to Tammy Faye.
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  Fernando Dovalina and J.T. Buck got news of Tammy Faye Messner's death minutes before the curtain went up Saturday night, July 20, 2007, for a performance of a musical the two men co-wrote about her life.
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  "It was a shock and very sad for everyone," said Dovalina, a retired Houston Chronicle editor who wrote the book for The Gospel According to Tammy Faye, which is being staged this weekend at the Neuhaus Theatre in downtown Houston.
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  Speaking in the lobby at intermission, Dovalina said the evening's show would close with a moment of silence for Messner, who died Friday of cancer at the age of 65.
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  The first thing the two UH friends, JT Buck and Fernando Dovalina, insist on clarifying, even before saying how glad they are to see it being performed at the Alley, is that they are not capitalizing on Tammy Faye Messner's much-publicized illness.

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  By Fernando Dovalina
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  Fernando Dovalina, formerly an editor at the Houston Chronicle, is a playwright. His two-act play, "The Man in the Trunk," recently had a six-week run in Houston.)

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  Fernando Dovalina and J.T. Buck got news of Tammy Faye Messner's death minutes before the curtain went up Saturday night, July 20, 2007, for a performance of a musical the two men co-wrote about her life.
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  "It was a shock and very sad for everyone," said Dovalina, a retired Houston Chronicle editor who wrote the book for The Gospel According to Tammy Faye, which is being staged this weekend at the Neuhaus Theatre in downtown Houston.
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  Speaking in the lobby at intermission, Dovalina said the evening's show would close with a moment of silence for Messner, who died Friday of cancer at the age of 65.
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  "I think she granted us the interview because she felt it was a way of ensuring her immortality," Dovalina said.
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  It is fitting that this production of the musical was staged by a church group, Bering and Friends, as a fundraiser for HIV/AIDS victims, Dovalina said."That's a cause that mattered to her a lot," he said.

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  Buck called Fernando Dovalina, a retired Houston Chronicle editor turned playwright, and asked if Dovalina would write the show's book.
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  Dovalina liked the idea immediately.
  
  "It would be easy to write it as a parody or satire," Dovalina says.
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  "Since their ministry is guided toward AIDS support programs," Dovalina says, "I thought the show would be a perfect fit because Tammy Faye was the first (televangelist) to bring a person with AIDS on her show."
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  Buck and Dovalina met when both were in Stuart Ostrow's musical theater workshop at the University of Houston School of Theatre.
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  The meeting gave Dovalina his idea for depicting three versions of the protagonist, who talk with each other throughout.They represent different phases of her life: innocent girlhood, midcareer disillusionment after the PTL debacle and rediscovered innocence in recent years.
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  For Dovalina, the ups and downs of Messner's life make a dramatic tale.
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  Dovalina, whose American Homefront was staged by Unhinged Productions in June, resides in Houston.

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