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Mriam Coln is a Puerto Rican actress. She is the founder and director of the Puerto Rican Traveling Theater in New York City.

Coln was born in Ponce, Puerto Rico. She was a young girl in the 1940s when her recently divorced mother moved the family to a public housing project called Residencial Las Casas in San Juan. She attended the Romn Baldorioty de Castro High School in Old San Juan, where she actively participated in the schools plays. Her first drama teacher, Marcos Coln believed that she was very talented with his help, she was permitted to observe the students in the drama department of the University of Puerto Rico. She was a good student in high school and was awarded scholarships that enabled her to enroll in the Dramatic Workshop and Technical Institute and also in The Lee Strasburg Acting Studio in New York City.

Source: Wikipedia