DIRECTING RESUME
Commercial Musicals
Disney Live Entertainment new musical (unannounced, premiere 2027)
Siren, book, music & lyrics by Dillon Feldman, Con Limón Productions & The Shubert Organization’s The Artistic Circle, 54 Below
Sugar Skull: A Day of the Dead Musical Adventure!, Mexico Beyond Mariachi; Rhythm of the Arts, 8 annual 30-city American national tours
El Otro Oz, book by Mando Alvarado & Tommy Newman, music & lyrics by Jaime Lozano & Tommy Newman; TheatreWorksUSA, 4 annual national tours
International Theatre Directing
The Power world premiere by Li Tong Chen, Noble Theatre Bridge, Beijing, China; first English language play commercially produced in Beijing
Two Arms and a Noise world premiere written & directed by Elena Araoz; Bucharest International Theater Platform, Bucharest, Romania (originally created at New York Theatre Workshop)
A Midsummer Night’s Dream Prague Shakespeare Company, Prague, Czech Republic
Unanswered, We Ride world premiere by Jaclyn Villano, with Joe Tippit, Edinburgh Fringe, Scotland
New York City Off-Broadway Theater Directing
Fur by Migdalia Cruz, New York Theatre Workshop Next Door & Boundless Theatre Company
Original Sound world premiere by Adam Seidel, Cherry Lane Theatre, with Wilson Jermaine Heredia
A Chronicle of the Madness of Small Worlds by Mac Wellman; New York Theatre Workshop Next Door
Alligator world premiere by Hilary Bettis, New Georges & Sol Project
Architecture of Becoming world premiere by Sarah Gancher, Kara Lee Corthron, Dipika Guha, Virginia Grise, Lauren Yee, Women’s Project at City Center Stage II
Three on a Couch world premiere by Carl Djerassi, Redshift Productions at Soho Playhouse
Phallacy world premiere by Carl Djerassi, Redshift Productions at Cherry Lane Theatre, with Lisa Harrow and Simon Jones
Opera Directing
Allegra & The Cello world premiereby Julia Schwartz and Catherine Filloux
I Am A Dreamer Who No Longer Dreams world premiere by Jorge Sosa & Cerise Jacobs, White Snake Projects, Paramount Theatre, Boston
La traviata New York City Opera, Director/Choreographer, Howard Gilman Opera House; Brooklyn Academy of Music, Sir Jonathan Miller original production
La traviata Choreographer/Associate Director, with director Sir Jonathan Miller, Vancouver Opera, Canada
La traviata Cold Spring Opera, Long Island
Lucia di Lammermoor Opera North, Lebanon, New Hampshire
Stillwaters world premiere by Bettina Shephard and Wallace, New York
Latin Lovers Director & Choreographer, arranged by Steven Blier, Glimmerglass Opera
Così fan tutte Brooklyn Philharmonic Education Department, Brooklyn Academy of Music
Falstaff, Act III with Sir Tom Allen & Robert Spano, Brooklyn Philharmonic at Brooklyn Academy of Music
Così fan tutte Associate Director to Sir Jonathan Miller at Seattle Opera, Lincoln Center, Mostly Mozart Festival, Brooklyn Academy of Music
Regional Theatre Directing
Espejos: Clean by Christine Quintana, Studio Theatre, Washington, D.C.
Anna In the Tropics by Nilo Cruz, Berkshire Theatre Festival
The Migration Plays by Adam Gwon, Martyna Majok, Heather Raffo, Mfoniso Udofia, Karen Zacarías, McCarter Theatre Center
Magdalene world premiere by Mark St. Germain, Contemporary American Theater Festival
Sweat by Lynn Nottage, People's Light and Theatre Company
In Between by Ibrahim Miari, Walnut Street Theatre
Azaan,world premiere play by Dipika Guha, music by Chris Rogerson, Oregon Symphony
Romeo and Juliet Shakespeare Festival St. Louis
The Retreating World by Naomi Wallace, Great Plains Theatre Conference, Omaha
Plastic Drastic world premiere written and directed by Elena Araoz, Rose Theatre, Omaha
Wood Music world premiere immersive event by St. Fortune Collective, Great Plains Theatre Conference, Omaha
Unanswered, We Ride by Jaclyn Villano, Last Frontier Theatre Conference, Valdez, Alaska
Wu World Woo and Horrocks (and Toutatis too),world premiere by Mac Wellman, BlueBarn Theatre & Great Plains Theatre Conference, Omaha, and Sleeping Weazel at ArtsEmerson
The Company We Keep world premiere by Jaclyn Villano, Boston Playwright’s Theatre
Muazzez world premiere by Mac Wellman, Great Plains Theatre Conference, Omaha
The Fever Chart by Naomi Wallace, Underground Railway Theatre, Boston, Massachusetts
The Price by Arthur Miller, Northern Stage (LORT), White River Junction, Vermont
Io: a myth about you world premiere musical by Monika Bustamante, Shrewd Productions, Austin
Faust, adaptation by Elena Araoz, Aurea Ensemble & FirstWorksProv Festival
War Music, adaptation by Elena Araoz, text by Christopher Logue, score by Paul Philips, world premiere with Aurea Ensemble & FirstWorksProv Festival, with tours to New York Skirball Center, Chicago Humanities Festival & Westerly Chorus
House of Sweets adaptation by Elena Araoz and Kim Dilts, based on text “Hansel and Gretel” by Grimm Brothers, Mark Cohen New Works Festival at UT/Austin, extended run
Titus Andronicus Austin Shakespeare Festival
Venus and Adonis adaptation by Elena Araoz, Austin Shakespeare Festival
Come Rain or Come Shine, adaptation by Elena Araoz, Bridgeport Free Shakespeare
New York City Other Directing
How to Eat an Orange, world premiere by Catherine Filloux, La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club
How to Melt ICE world premiere by Amalia Rojas Oliva, New Perspectives Theatre Company and Boundless Theatre Company, Julia de Burgos Performance and Arts Center, New York City, New York
Swell world premiere by Melisa Tien and ten immigrant composers, HERE Arts Center
Conduct of Life by María Irene Fornés, Boundless Theatre Company
Mud by María Irene Fornés, Boundless Theatre Company
Kidnap Road world premiere by Catherine Filloux, La Mama Experimental Theatre
Prospect by Octavio Solis, Boundless Theatre Company
Mechanics of Love by Dipika Guha, To-By-For Productions
She-She-She world premiere devised with writer Virginia Grise and produced by Hook & Eye & Ice Factory Festival, New Ohio Theatre
Stitches world premiere by Leah Franqui, To-By-For Productions
Be a Good Little Widow by Bekah Brunstetter, The Wild Project
Horrocks (and Toutatis too)world premiere by Mac Wellman, The New Museum
Lawnpeople, world premiere by Natalia Naman, Cherry Lane Theatre
Magdalena’s Crossing, world premiere by Carolyn Nur Wistrand, Negro Ensemble Company
Storyteller’s Candle world premiere by Barbara Zinn Krieger, Making Books Sing
Thirst a spell for Christabel, world premiere by Monika Bustamante, HERE Arts Center
Joy world premiere by Robert Strozier, WorkShop Theatre Company
Laberintos/Labyrinths adapted by Elena Araoz, text by Jorge Luis Borges, Chekhov Theatre Ensemble
War Music adapted by Elena Araoz, text by Christopher Logue; score by Paul Philips, The New York Institute for the Humanities
Girl/Power world premiere by Zetta Elliot, New Perspectives Theatre
9 Steps from St. Ann’s Street world premiere by Carolyn Nur Wistrand, New Perspectives
Broadway Directing
Union Square Incident (charity event) world premiere by Warren Leight, with Ashlie Atkinson; Jason Biggs, Michael Cerveris, Russell G. Jones, Olivia Washington & Julie White; The 24 Hour Plays on Broadway, American Airlines Theatre
Broadway Assistant Directing
King Lear, director Sir Jonathan Miller, Lincoln Center, Vivian Beaumont Theatre, with Christopher Plummer, 2 Tony Nominations
Event Directing
Sapphire Anniversary Gala honoring Sarah PaulsonSecond Stage Theatre production headlined by Eden Espinosa, Beanie Feldstein, Danny Burstein, Micaela Diamond, Betsy Wolfe, Lindsay Mendez, Kate Baldwin
California Dreams Second Stage Theatre gala production headlined by Brian Stokes Mitchell, hosted by Michael Urie, with Katie Couric, Lynn Nottage, Bess Wohl, Craig Bierko, Zachary Noah Piser, among others,
Freedom & Democracy co-produced by PEN World Voices Festival of International Literature & The Cathedral of St. John the Divine
Bystanders event produced by Anna Deavere Smith’s The Institute on the Arts and Civic Dialogue
Threads of Power museum exhibit, Bard Graduate Center
new musical development
Power Trio book & lyrics by Melinda Lopez, Huntington Theatre Company
Azul music & lyrics by Jacinta Clusellas, additional lyrics by Melis Aker & Tatiana Pandiani, additional vocal arrangements by Kurt Crowley, National Alliance for Musical Theatre
War book by Matthew Paul Olmos, based on the songs of the band War, produced by BMG and Elyse Hogan
Havana Music Hall lyrics & story by Richard Kagan, book by Carmen Pelaez; with Daryl Roth Theatrical Management, NYC and Miami
semii-staged & developmental theatre workshops
Allond(r)aby Gina Femia, MCC Theatre
Torera by Monet Hurst-Mendoza, The Public Theater
Perreo by Valen-Marie Santos, The Public theater
Alma by Benjamin Benne, The Old Globe & National Playwrights Conference at Eugene O'Neill Theater Center
Mushroom by Eisa Davis, People’s Light and Theatre Company
Megastasis by Kia Corthron, New York Theatre Workshop, also developed at Yale University & Brooklyn New Works
All’s Well That Ends Well translation of Shakespeare by Virginia Grise, Play On! and Classic Stage Company
What Are You Worth? by Kara Lee Corthron, Miranda Theatre Company
Dakota Atoll by Hilary Bettis, New York Theatre Workshop
Tio Pepe by Matthew Lopez, playwright’s workshop, with Pricilla Lopez, New York City
The Greenest Month by Meghan Kennedy, playwright’s workshop, New York City
The House by Marian Licha, playwright’s workshop, New York City
The Word for Snow by Don DiLillo, New York Institute for the Humanities, with Kathleen Chalfont and Lisa Harrow
Duchess of Stringtown by Michelle Jones and Anastasia Schmid, Anna Deavere Smith’s Institute on the Arts & Civic Dialogue, also developed at New York Live Arts & with a todo dar productions
Richard III translation of Shakespeare by Migdalia Cruz, Play On!
Stoneheart by Georgina Escobar, Sol Project
three girls never learnt the way home by Matthew Paul Olmos, The New Group
Welcome to Fear City by Kara Lee Corthron, Atlantic Theater, also developed at Labyrinth Theater & PlayPenn
Children of the Republic by Gonzolo Rodríguez Risco, The Playwrights Realm
Good People by Alex Beech, presentations in English and Spanish, Two River Theatre
Tiny People by Christopher Oscar Peña, Two River Theatre
The Least Worst Place by Lindsay Joelle, The Lark
Best Life by Melissa Tien, Bushwick Star
at the very bottom of a body of waterby Benjamin Benne, Sol Project
Your Healing is Killing Me by Virginia Grise, Brooklyn New Works
What / Washed Ashore \ Astray by Benjamin Benne, Upstream Artists’ Collective
The Ghosts of Lote Bravo by Hilary Bettis, The Lark, also developed at Repertorio Español & Project Y Theatre
Obra Negra by Flavio González Mello, translated by Carmen Rivera, The Lark México/US Exchange
Alexis Elisa Macedo’s Untitled Super Hero Play by Alexis Macedo, Latinx Playwrights Circle
River of Gruel by Sibyl Kempson, New Dramatists
México by Hilary Bettis, Project Y Theatre
Madame Ho by Eugenie Chan, Great Plains Theatre Conference
Alligator by Hilary Bettis, Great Plains Theatre Conference
Two Noble Kinsmen, adaptation by Elena Araoz, The WorkShop Theatre
Rip Van Winkleby Joseph Jefferson, Pearl Theatre
Uprooted by Clinnesha Sibley, TheatreSquared
Audio Play And Opera Directing
Nightfall by Marisela Treviño Orta, Audible
Exile by Brigette Wimberly, Audible
No One of Forgotten: an immersive opera composed by Paola Pristini & Sxip Shirey, play by Winter Miller, audio release by Dallas Opera, first 3D spatial audio opera of its kind
New York City Off-Broadway Associate And Assistant Directing
Assistant Director to Steven Soderbergh, The Library, world premiere by Scott Z. Burns, The Public Theatre, with Chloë Grace Moretz
Associate Director to Sir Richard Eyre, Ghosts by Ibsen, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Harvey Theatre, with Lesley Manville
Assistant Director to Darko Tresnjak & voice coach Cicely Berry, Antony and Cleopatra, Theatre for a New Audience, with Laila Robins,
Opera Assistant Directing
Assistant Director to Laura Alley, Magic Flute, Martina Arroyo Foundation
Assistant Director to Sir Jonathan Miller, St. Matthew Passion, Brooklyn Academy of Music
Assistant Director to Sir Jonathan Miller, Dido and Aeneas, Glimmerglass Opera
Assistant Director to Sir Jonathan Miller, Il matrimonio segreto, Brooklyn Academy of Music