I’m a Theatre Director and Practitioner, the latter manifests itself in producing, dramaturgy, and being in service to telling a clear and collaborative story. 

I was born by the sea in Los Cabos, Mexico, grew up along the Rocky Mountains in Colorado, now I reside in New York City on the East Coast. My father was born in Colorado, my mother was born in Mexico City. Two different languages, countries, and cultures gave me the opportunity to inherently build my own. I’ve been making from a young age. 

Independence has always been part of my creative process, my parents say that I began to dance, run, and perform before I could walk, they embraced that. In the middle of a Baja desert, I would engage early experimentation in imagination inside our garden. We had mango trees. I’d eat mangos with my hands and with the leftover juice, I’d paint the trees, my face, my body, my clothes, the dirt, all in mango. Using the seed as my paintbrush I’d begin to learn the process of using an object for its unintended purposes. In much of my work I use objects for unintended purposes, imagination is the key to that. 

As a theatre maker, I am passionate about making space for new voices, new stories, and new creators. As a Latinx artist, celebrating new artists and their work is a step in representation for all. From a young age, I understood that in my upbringing there would always be a cultural divide between the two cultures and countries that I belonged to that don’t see eye to eye, especially today. I dedicate creative energy to building bridges, not walls. My work is an investigation into culture and identity, I invite the actors I work with to identify culture in their lives and in their characters. The script is our blueprint, their ideas, and insight is our structure. In this practice, we take a deep look at the complexities of these humans and further understand the oppressive or celebratory circumstances that have put them in this dynamic moment that will, in turn, be shared with an audience night after night. 

When it comes to style and form, I invest my time working on musicals and plays, new and classic. Theatre is meant to be a space of collision, that’s why I look for friction in a script. When directing I tend to work on material with linear storytelling that is balanced in realism but has space for alchemy. 

My directing and creating in theatre is a construction of imagination and text. I implement life experiences and a sense of what is rotating around the world to arrive at a presentation of any work for an audience. My investigation of the theatre practice began from an appreciation for storytelling, since then my work has evolved into making a collective space in hopes to connect audiences to performances in an honest and impactful way. Ultimately, I hope that audiences feel a sense of community, catharsis, and creativity in my work. I look forward to continuing to lead the mission to tell new stories for audiences of all walks of life.