Luz María Rondón
Carlitos soon died, an event that touched Rondón for the rest of her life (in 1987, she told a national newspaper, El Reportero, that, in her opinion, parents never recover from a child's death) .[2] Soon after, Rondón joined the "Teatro del Sesenta" theater company,[2] a group of actors whose members also included, at one time or another, Gilda Haddock, Pedro Juan Texidor and Luis Oliva, among others.Rondón enjoyed a fruitful theater career; acting in more than 100 plays and earning two Golden Laurel awards (the Puerto Rican theater's equivalent of the Tony awards), one for her participation in 1979's Los Angeles Se Han Fatigado (The Angels Are Tired) and one for her work in 1980's Amor en el Caserio (Love At the Residencial).In 1982, her acting in a play named El Insolito Caso de Miss Piña Colada (The Strange Case of Miss Piña Colada) brought her critical praise from critics such as Ramón Figueroa Chapel of El Mundo, who called her a "señora actriz" (equivalent in Spanish language to "leading actress", or to "legendary actress" in American english) on that newspaper's 2 July 1982, edition.In 1978, Rondón was hired by canal 11 to work on a telenovela named Mi Querida Sylvia (My Beloved Sylvia),[2] where she worked alongside main stars Marilyn Pupo and Daniel Lugo, as well as with Angela Meyer, Carmen Belen Richardson, Axel Anderson, Miguel Angel Suarez, Joffre Perez and many other notable Puerto Rican actors of the era.