By Luis Reyes
Dailyn Rodriquez and Ben Lobato will serve as co-showrunners and executive producers alongside Executive Producer David T. Friendly on the upcoming fourth season of USA Network’s Queen of The South for Fox 21 TV studios and Universal Content productions.
Queen of The South starring Alice Braga is based on the best-selling book La Reina Del Sur by Antonio Perez Reverte. It tells the powerful story of Teresa Medina (Braga), a woman who is forced to run from the Mexican cartels and seek refuge in America.
Dailyn was born in the Washington Heights area of New York City and attended New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts from which she graduated with an MFA in dramatic writing. In 2001 she earned a position in the ABC/Disney Studios Writing Fellowship and has been working as a writer ever since on such television shows as Ugly Betty, Night Shift, and The Glades. Lobato was an executive story editor on The Following.
Latinos In Space: Santiago Cabrera and Isa Briones Join the cast of new Star Trek spin-off series with Patrick Stewart.
Santiago Cabrera and Isa Briones have been cast in the CBS All Access untitled Star Trek series that will mark the return of Captain Jean Luc Picard played by Patrick Stewart who will lead the series into further adventures in the final space frontier. Stewart originated the role of Captain Jean Luc Picard in the Star Trek: The Next Generation series that ran for seven years and more than 170 episodes and starred in two Star Trek feature films spawned from the series.
Isa Briones and Santiago Cabrera
The handsome Cabrera was most sought after by television, cable and streaming producers for leading roles in several series pilots this season before deciding on the Star Trek series in which he pilots the star fleet vessel. The Venezuelan born, British- Chilean Cabrera starred for two seasons on the CBS supernatural drama Salvation and on the NBC series Heroes. He also had a recurring role on HBO’s Big Little Lies, played Aramis in the BBC series The Musketeer and appeared in the feature film The Last Knight. Cabrera is represented by APA
Isa Briones was part of the first national touring company of Hamilton and its youngest cast member at age 19. The actress had a role in American Crime Story: The Assasination of Versace. Briones hails from Los Angeles and her parents are both actors. Briones, who is Philipina-American worked with LA based East West Players before moving to New York and auditioning for the touring production. She is represented by Piper/Kaniecki/Marks management.