# Rolando Peña Lorenzo **Date of birth:** December 9, 1966 **Categories:** actor, Arts, Society, professor Graduate of the Instituto Superior de Arte (ISA) with a degree in Art of Audiovisual Communication Media with a directing profile. Also evaluated as a television director. Member of the Unión Nacional de Escritores y Artistas de Cuba (UNEAC), the Asociación Cubana de Comunicadores Sociales (ACCS), and the Movimiento Nacional de Video (MNV). Work as an actor: On Television: La delegada / television series / lead role / Dir. Rafael Acosta / 1985. José Martí, un hombre interminable / television series / lead role / Dir. Carlos Franco / 1990. Convivencia / regular educational program / Dirs. Carlos Franco, Abel Ponce, Germán Navarro and Luis Castro / 1992. Día y noche / The Stolen Painting / lead role / police television series / Dir. Jesús Cabrera / 1994. Like a Sun of Fire / adventure / lead role / Dir. Rafael Acosta / 1994. The Hour of the Witches / live children's program / various characters / Dir. Manolo Gómez / 1994 and 1995. The Echo of the Stones / telenovela / co-lead / Dirs. Paco Anca and Miguel Sosa / 1997. Mirages / lead role / Dir. Carlos Simón / 1998. Shirtless / adventure / supporting role / Dirs. Rafael Acosta and Miguel Sosa / 1999. Cows Don't Eat Ferns / story / lead role / Dir. Leandro Martínez / 2000. 1928 / story / lead role / Dir. Eduardo Muñoa / 2001. Small Maneuvers / story / supporting role / Dir. Pablo Javier López / 2002. I Am You – Me / telefilm / lead role / Dir. Rolando Chiong / 2003. Green Coconut / television series / supporting role / Dir. Rolando Peña / 2003. The Necklace / story / lead role / Dir. Rafael González / 2004. Anonymity / telefilm / supporting role / 2006. Theater Bird Eggs / lead role / theater group En las nubes / Dir. Rolando Tarajano (Award at the Caribbean Theater Festival and toured Colombia with this production) / 1995. Incomplete Stories of Virgilio / Buscón theater group / lead role / Dir. José Antonio Rodríguez / 1998. Radio Performs various characters of different complexities in series such as adventures, police dramas, and stories / 1992 and 1993. Film A Bride for David / co-lead / feature film / Dir. Orlando Rojas / 1985. Life in Pink / feature film / co-lead / Dir. Rolando Díaz / 1987. Garbage / short film / co-lead / Dir. Lorenzo Alvarez / 1988. Cuba / feature film / supporting role / Dir. Francisco Guzmán / 1996. Personal Belongings / Fiction feature film / supporting role / Dir. Alejandro Brugués / 2008 Work as Director The Echo of the Stones / making of the television series / 1998. Making Roads / educational television program of 52 episodes / 1999. Bag of Ghosts / theater for television / fiction / 1999. The Chosen of Time / adventure television series / fiction / 72 chapters / 2000. Three Divas in Solitude / television theater / fiction / 2001. Enigma for a Summer / youth television series / fiction / 2001. Bohemian Flavor / humorous television series / fiction / 2002. Small Maneuvers / story for television / fiction / 2002. Green Coconut / television series / fiction / 27 chapters / 2003. Nothing Will Make You Turn Back / video clip from the Green Coconut series / 2003. Sport and Love / television series / fiction / 27 chapters / 2004. Little Ones / children's television series / 9 chapters / 2005. Anonymity / telefilm / fiction / 2006. The Blue Grandmother / documentary / 2006. The Young Pigeon Flew / documentary / 2006. Video Art / to plastic artist Ernesto Pumariega / 2006. Everything That's Worth / video clip to musician Ariel Machado / 2006. Other Tasks Director of the art instructor brigade 20th Anniversary of Cienfuegos / 1986 and 1987. Director and instructor of the amateur theater group Yaguaramas / 1986 and 1987 (obtained an honorable mention at the National Amateur Festival with this group). Theater instructor at the Playa Cultural Center / 1991. Artistic director of variety shows at the Morro Cabaña Complex / 1991. Directing professor in training workshops for municipal and provincial Telecenters / 2005 and 2006. Jury member of the Provincial Telecenters Festival in Villa Clara / 2006. Professor at ISA, in the faculty of film, radio and television in the specialty of television directing. Awards Caracol Award for Best Direction for a Series, for the work Enigma for a Summer / awarded by the Film, Radio and Television Association of UNEAC / 2001. Caracol Award for Direction of a Series, for the work Green Coconut / awarded by the Film, Radio and Television Association of UNEAC / 2003. Award for Best Series, for the work Green Coconut / awarded at the National Television Festival / 2004. Nominated for Best Video Clip at the Lucas Awards, instrumental music Habana Sax, They Are Not from Havana / 2005.