Tlaloc Rivas

Tlaloc Rivas is a writer, director, and Associate Professor in Residence at UConn. He is a co-founder of the Latinx Theatre Commons, a member of Stage Directors and Choreographers and the Dramatists Guild, and the recipient of the Sir John Gielgud Fellowship in Classical Directing, the NEA/TCG Career Development Program for Directors, and a Usual Suspect of New York Theater Workshop. Tlaloc received his BA from UC Santa Cruz where he spent two seasons working with Shakespeare Santa Cruz. He received his MFA in Directing from the University of Washington’s School of Drama, where he concurrently served as Artistic Associate of The Group Theatre. Tlaloc recently premiered The Revolution of Evelyn Serrano (based on the novel by Sonia Manzano) at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, and directed A Midsummer Night’s Dream at Notre Dame Shakespeare Festival. As a playwright, his plays include: Johanna: Facing Forward (premiered at Cleveland Public Theatre), Divisadero (developed at The New Harmony Project), Maypearl (developed at St. Edward’s University), Kaliban: Waterloo, IA (a New Now commission from Lauren Gunderson), Take What You Can Carry (developed at La MaMa Umbria International Playwriting Retreat), and Byzantine.