Prometeo Director Receives Honors

Joann Maria Yarrow, artistic director for the Prometeo Theatre at Miami Dade College, has been selected to The Miami Herald’s 20 Under 40: Celebrating Artists, which recognizes emerging leaders in South Florida’s local arts scene.

Yarrow oversees the country’s only college level Spanish-language professional actor training program. She teaches first-year students.

Yarrow also started an after-school Spanish-language theater program, created Acting for the Camera courses, and toured Prometeo Theatre shows at festivals in Peru and Boston.

With Yarrow at the helm, Prometeo Theatre has received national recognition as the nation’s leading Spanish-language theater program. The program is based at MDC’s Wolfson Campus.

Yarrow, who previously oversaw the acting program at Union College in New York, earned a Master of Arts in directing from the University of California at Irvine.