The idea that following your dream will lead to a happier and healthier life isn't just fluff. Research has found that people who pursue their passion experience lower stress levels and are happier overall. That's good news for Dominican comedian and actress Sasha Merci Medina, who has been living her life based on this principle ever since she decided to take her first stab at comedy.
Medina, 33 who was born and raised in the Bronx, started performing in 2016 at open mics and standup shows. But she really started making a name for herself when she began posting comedy clips to her Instagram account, @sashamerci, after the social media platform added the video feature.
Shortly after building a decent following, Medina started landing everything from standup gigs to bona-fide acting roles, including one in 2016's "Honorable Mike" and in the 2019 indie film "De Lo Mio." In "De Lo Mio," she played...
Medina, 33 who was born and raised in the Bronx, started performing in 2016 at open mics and standup shows. But she really started making a name for herself when she began posting comedy clips to her Instagram account, @sashamerci, after the social media platform added the video feature.
Shortly after building a decent following, Medina started landing everything from standup gigs to bona-fide acting roles, including one in 2016's "Honorable Mike" and in the 2019 indie film "De Lo Mio." In "De Lo Mio," she played...
- 3/10/2023
- by Johanna Ferreira
- Popsugar.com
"Con paciencia y calma se sube un burro a una palma," is a famous Dominican saying that translates to "With patience and calm, a donkey can climb a palm." The saying speaks to the resourcefulness of Dominicans. It's about making do with what you have and creating new opportunities for yourself when the opportunities aren't necessarily falling on your lap. If there's one Dominican in the biz who has built their career off creating opportunities for themselves, when the opportunities weren't coming, it's comedian, actress, and writer Sasha Merci Medina.
Six years ago, Medina, who was born and raised in the Bronx, took her first stab at comedy. In 2016, she started off performing at open mics and doing standup. But when the opportunities weren't knocking on her door, Medina started posting comedy clips to her Ig @sashamerci after Instagram added the video feature to its platform. Before she knew it,...
Six years ago, Medina, who was born and raised in the Bronx, took her first stab at comedy. In 2016, she started off performing at open mics and doing standup. But when the opportunities weren't knocking on her door, Medina started posting comedy clips to her Ig @sashamerci after Instagram added the video feature to its platform. Before she knew it,...
- 8/8/2022
- by Johanna Ferreira
- Popsugar.com
In today’s TV News Roundup, CBS Entertainment announced it is merging its alternative programming and specials departments, and Hulu announced the premiere date for its upcoming comedy series “Woke.”
Renewals
Nickelodeon has greenlit a 20-episode second season of its animated series “It’s Pony,” which follows the adventures of a young girl and a carefree pony. The second season will premiere in 2021. The show holds one of the top three animated series with Kids 2-11 across all TV, behind only Nickelodeon’s “SpongeBob SquarePants” and “The Loud House.”
Dates
Hulu has announced its upcoming comedy series “Woke” will premiere on the streamer on Sept. 9. The series follows a Black cartoonist (Lamorne Morris) on the verge of mainstream success. Marshall Todd and Keith Knight serve as co-creators and executive producers alongside showrunner Jay Dyer, Maurice “Mo” Marable, Aeysha Carr, Richie Schwartz, John Will, Will Gluck and Eric Christian Olsen. Kate Schumaecker...
Renewals
Nickelodeon has greenlit a 20-episode second season of its animated series “It’s Pony,” which follows the adventures of a young girl and a carefree pony. The second season will premiere in 2021. The show holds one of the top three animated series with Kids 2-11 across all TV, behind only Nickelodeon’s “SpongeBob SquarePants” and “The Loud House.”
Dates
Hulu has announced its upcoming comedy series “Woke” will premiere on the streamer on Sept. 9. The series follows a Black cartoonist (Lamorne Morris) on the verge of mainstream success. Marshall Todd and Keith Knight serve as co-creators and executive producers alongside showrunner Jay Dyer, Maurice “Mo” Marable, Aeysha Carr, Richie Schwartz, John Will, Will Gluck and Eric Christian Olsen. Kate Schumaecker...
- 7/9/2020
- by J. Kim Murphy
- Variety Film + TV
Hey, "Blue Bloods" fans. We hope you guys enjoyed tonight's episode 4. Now that it's officially aired and in the history books, it's time to see what next week's brand new episode 5 will feature. Thanks to CBS' latest press release, we do have quite a few teaser descriptions for episode 5. So,we're going to dish those out to you right now. To start this spoiler session off, the official title for episode 5 is called, "The Price You Pay." It sounds like episode 5 will feature some intense, dramatic, action-filled and interesting scenes as Frank tries to defend a detective. Baez and Danny try to hunt down a killer! Jamie gets very doubtful about a relationship. Sarah and Eddie go undercover to help Erin and more. We'll go ahead and start off this spoiler session with the Frank situation. It turns out that we're going to see a detective named Douglas McKenzie...
- 10/19/2019
- by Andre Braddox
- OnTheFlix
De Lo Mio begins with a tidy visual metaphor: a man carefully opens many blinds to let light into a dark room. The three siblings in Diana Peralta’s debut feature try keeping it respectable when they reunite in the Dominican Republic to clean out their grandmother’s home, but family history quickly rears its ugly head and, soon, long-buried emotions are dredged up. Grudges merely fester like an open wound if they aren’t confronted, Peralta argues. Why not use sunlight, the best disinfectant available, to clean it up before it’s too late?
Rita (Sasha Merci) and Carolina (Darlene Demorizi) travel from New York to Santiago to help their estranged brother, Dante (Héctor Aníbal), sell the family property and collect some money. The two sisters mourn their late grandmother and express regret that they didn’t help out when she fell ill, a lapse Dante clearly resents. Similarly,...
Rita (Sasha Merci) and Carolina (Darlene Demorizi) travel from New York to Santiago to help their estranged brother, Dante (Héctor Aníbal), sell the family property and collect some money. The two sisters mourn their late grandmother and express regret that they didn’t help out when she fell ill, a lapse Dante clearly resents. Similarly,...
- 6/23/2019
- by The Film Stage
- The Film Stage
This month’s BAMcinemaFest isn’t just for New York cinephiles. The annual Brooklyn festival routinely boasts a slate that includes some of the year’s best indie offerings from festivals earlier in the year, and while the latest edition is no exception, it also has a number of notable world premieres and under-the-radar offerings.
This year’s festival will open on June 12 with the New York premiere of Lulu Wang’s lauded family dramedy “The Farewell,” starring Awkwafina. The film debuted at Sundance earlier this year to massive critical acclaim, and A24 will release it later this year. The festival will close with Diana Peralta’s “De Lo Mio” on June 22, which follows the “story of ride or die New York sisters who reunite with their estranged brother in the Dominican Republic following their father’s death.”
In between, there are a number of distinctive cinematic experiences, including 18 NY premieres,...
This year’s festival will open on June 12 with the New York premiere of Lulu Wang’s lauded family dramedy “The Farewell,” starring Awkwafina. The film debuted at Sundance earlier this year to massive critical acclaim, and A24 will release it later this year. The festival will close with Diana Peralta’s “De Lo Mio” on June 22, which follows the “story of ride or die New York sisters who reunite with their estranged brother in the Dominican Republic following their father’s death.”
In between, there are a number of distinctive cinematic experiences, including 18 NY premieres,...
- 6/11/2019
- by Kate Erbland, Eric Kohn, David Ehrlich, Chris O'Falt, Tambay Obenson and Jude Dry
- Indiewire
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