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"Maidenwena Alba, also a first-generation Filipino American, is an APTP alum who was in Learning Curve and God’s Work and has returned as a rehearsal captain and swing for Port of Entry."
Port of Entry
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"The topics and ideas explored can be quite dramatically heavy, but these performers embody and convey these ideas with grace, confidence, and ease found only in the most experienced thespians."
Best Immersive Experiences of 2023
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“You saw, you heard, and you know now,” Albany Park Theater Project member Maidenwena Alba told us after their performance, which was developed from interviews with day laborers. “Normally, you don’t have a day-to-day conversation with a day laborer asking them what’s their back story…so it’s nice to humanize the issue [through performance].”
Amor De Lejos
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“Out in the stairwell, Maidenwena Alba, a veteran APTP performer heading into her final year at Amundsen High School, slides down the stair railing to make a quick escape.”
Learning Curve
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"I will never forget Maidenwena Alba's exquisite dance (and mischief)."
Learning Curve
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"There is also, during the scene on welfare, in which Maidenwena Alba flies about the stage with a standard grocery cart- a bit scary at times, but well done"
Feast
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"... but it is Rachel, the smallest child with the brightest smile (played with radiance by Maidenwena Alba), who emerges as the star of another story."
God’s Work
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"God’s Work tells the story of Rachel (Maidenwena Alba), “the lucky one” of eighteen siblings raised in a basement by an abusive, fundamentalist father ..."
God’s Work
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"One daughter, Rachel (the altogether exquisite Maidenwena Alba), has the luck and imagination to break free. Her dozen or so siblings comfort each other as best they can, but mostly march in lockstep to their father’s commands..."
God’s Work