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Director, Shakespeare and the Alchemy of Gender

In five seasons at OSF: Manahatta, The River Bride, The Tenth Muse, The Language Archive, Black Swan Lab, Latinx Playwrights Project. Other theatres: The Public Theater, Yale Repertory Theatre, Alliance Theatre, Baltimore Center Theatre, Long Wharf Theatre, Goodman Theatre, South Coast Repertory, Cornerstone Theater Company, Denver Center Theater Company, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Sundance Institute and Theatre. Playwright: As You Like It (musical adaptation, The Public Theater/Delacorte Theatre); Ladybird (24th Street Theatre); Lola in Lincolnlandia (REDCAT); Scouting Reality, Bliss, The Hundred Dresses, Orphan Train: The Lost Children (South Coast Repertory); Salvadorian Moon/African Sky, Not Too Late (Cornerstone Theater Company). Other credits: Director of Public Works at The Public Theater; former Associate Artistic Director and ensemble member, Cornerstone Theater Company; Director of Conservatory, South Coast Repertory. Film/TV: Once and Again, Breaking Through, As Good as Dead, Not Too Late (writer/co-director). Teaching: Princeton University; Fordham University; New York University; Columbia University; Brown University; Citrus College; California State University, Northridge; California State University, Los Angeles; California Institute for the Arts; USC. Professional affiliations/awards: Founding member of The Sol Project, Board member of the Latinx Producers Action Network, Latinx Commons. Obie award winner, 2020 United States Artist recipient, 2021 Americans for the Arts Johnson Fellowship for Artists Transforming Communities, 2022 Person of the Year Award for the National Theatre Conference. Education: University of California, Los Angeles.