By The Star Staff
The deep love that the young San Germán actress Valerie Ann Almodóvar Ojeda, who was murdered on Dec. 17, 2018 in Ponce, felt for the world of theater led to the birth of the theatrical group Las Bambalinas at the Municipality of San Germán’s School of Fine Arts.
The 23-year-old actress, who was also a theater producer and even a chef, and who studied communications at a local university, did nothing less than plant seeds of love, faith and hope in so many hearts, San Germán Mayor Virgilio Olivera Olivera said.
“In San Germán we feel more than proud of the birth of this theater group,” said the mayor of the southwestern town. “We recognize, again, the huge contribution of Valerie Ann to the field of theater and of course the quality of daily life.”
“We have an unshakable commitment to the arts,” he stressed. Las Bambalinas came out of the “great passion that [Almodóvar Ojeda] always had for the theater,” said Nelson Josué Rivera Pagán, San Germán’s director of art and culture and a dance teacher. “Valerie Ann always illuminated our hearts and days with her spirit and her contagious joy, as well as her passion for the scenic art.”
“Her name is, certainly, our best tribute to her memory and this great dream to have a theater named ‘Las Bambalinas,’ next to us,” he said.
The body of Almodóvar Ojeda, who had been stabbed to death, was found in a neighborhood of Adjuntas soon after she was slain. Her murderer, a Ponce graffiti artist, was found guilty in 2021 and sentenced to 107 years in prison in 2022.
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