Directing / Producing / Writing
Antony & Cleopatra, 1999
Performance Salon
(Founded 2016)
(Producer, Director, and Writer)
Arena Theatre/CSLA
Dramatic Readings 2016-2017:
*New works
Shakespearean Sonnets, Dec '17
Oroonoko, Dec '17
Lysistrata, Nov '17
*Restoration, Nov '17
*Setting The Table, Nov '17
Toys In The Attic, Nov '17
*The Fountainhead, Oct '17
Orlando, Oct '17
In The Next Room, or the vibrator play, Oct '17
*Frankenstein, Oct '17
The Rover, Sept. '17
Romeo & Juliet, Sept. '17
Antigone X, Sept. '17
Antigone, Sept. 17
Portfolio, May'17
*A More Perfect Union, May '17
*An Enemy of the People, Flint, May '17
An Enemy of the People, May '17
The Exonerated, April '17
Living Out, April '17
Misalliance, April '17
Summerfolk, April '17
*Pride and Prejudice, April '17
*Protected Class, March '17
Macbeth, March '17
As You Like It, Feb '17
Medea, Feb '17
*Greenland LA, Dec '16
*Homeless, Dec '16
The Persians, Dec '16
Death of a Salesman, Nov '16
Three Sisters, Nov '16
Much Ado About Nothing, Oct '16
High-Risk, 2015
(Writer, Performer)
Arena Theatre
CSLA
Clybourne Park, 2015
(Director, Musical Coordinator)
State Playhouse
CSLA
The Winter's Tale, 2013
(Director, Musical Coordinator, Program)
State Playhouse
CSLA
Arcadia, 2011
(Director, Musical Coordinator)
State Playhouse
CSLA
*Collaboration with Los Angeles High School for the Arts (LACHSA)
Equity Guest Artists, Maria Spassoff and Stuart W. Howard
Cancer-A Culture of Identity, 2011
Performance Lecture
Honolulu, Hawaii
VISMS, 2011
VISMS Workshop
Honolulu, Hawaii
VISMS, 2010
California Educational Theatre Association
Long Beach
Maritare, 2010
(Author/Director/Choreographer/Visual Designer)
Luckman Intimate Theatre
Cal State LA
Glocal Activists’ Theatre Workshop: Legislative Theatre, 2009
Thousand Oaks & Ventura, CA
Bless Me, Ultima 2008
(Adaptor / Director)
Theatrical Adaptation of the Novel by Rudolfo Anaya; Dramaturgy by Roberto Cantu
National Endowment for the Arts / Big Read
*Staged Readings for Los Angeles County Library / Cal State LA / Bilingual Foundation for the Arts / Dallas Cultural Affairs Department / Latino Cultural Center
Faust, Parts 1 & 2, 2007
(C0-Producer, Adaptor, Director, Media Coordinator, & Scenographer)
The Artists' Collective in conjunction with CSLA
Global Warming:
Explorations of Crisis Through Legislative Theatre, 2006
(Workshop Leader)
Ventura, CA
Dracula, 2006
(Director)
State Playhouse
Cal State LA
San Pedro Nine, 2005
(Writer / Director / Co-Producer)
The Artists’ Collective
Warner Grand Theatre
Mine: In Her Own Name, 2003-2007
(Co-Author, Producer/Director)
The Artists' Collective
Smithsonian Institution
February 2007
Performance Riverside
February 2006
Cal State LA
February 2005
Edge Fest LA
October 2005
*Awarded: County of Riverside Proclamation Charter 2007
Cruel and Unusual: Proposition 66, 2009
(Director, Tour Coordinator)
Devised Theatre
Southland Fall Tour
The Artists’ Collective in conjunction with Center for Theatre of the Oppressed, Los Angeles, Fringe Benefits, and ACLU Southern California.
ACLU Uppies, 2003-2004
Upton Sinclair Freedom of Expression Awards
(Director)
(Featuring George Carlin & Michio Kaku)
The Warner Grand Theater
Living Newspaper, 2003-2005
(Workshop Leader)
Banning’s Landing , San Pedro
Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Department
A Midsummer Night’s Dream, 2004
(Director)
State Playhouse/CSLA
As Beauty Does, 1993
(Producer)
The Artists' Collective
The Attic Theatre, Los Angeles
Sinclair, The Musical, 2003
Edge of the World Festival 2003 / Los Angeles History Project
(Director/Producer)
The Artists' Collective
Gene Autry Museum, Los Angeles
ThreePenny Opera, 2003
(Director)
State Playhouse
CSLA
Educating Rita, 2001
(Director)
Sacramento Theatre Company
A Map of the World, 2001
(Director)
Luckman Fine Arts Complex, Los Angeles
*Shedding the Tiger, 2001
(Associate Director)
Sacramento Theatre Company
World Premiere
Vismists: A Documentary Series
(Producer/Director/Writer/Editor)
The Artists’ Collective
Series One: 2000-2011
Augusto Boal
Father Gregory Boyle
Mark Thomas
Ahakhav Tribal Preserve 1999-2000
(Co-Producer, Director, Editor)
Colorado Indian River Tribes & Headstart
The Artists' Collective
All’s Well That Ends Well, 2000
(Producer/Director/Scenic & Costume Design)
Luckman Fine Arts Complex
Equity Guest Artist / Multi-Media Production
The Artists' Collective in conjunction with CSLA
Antony & Cleopatra, 1999
(Producer/Director)
State Playhouse
The Artists' Collective in conjunction with CSLA
Dolores, 1999
(Director)
The Bitter Truth Theatre / Theatre of Hope for Abused Women NoHo Arts District
The Cherry Orchard, 1998
(Producer / Director)
The Artists’ Collective
Gascon Center Theatre
Venice, CA
**LA Times: Best Bets
Finian’s Rainbow, 1998
(Co-Director) (Josh Groban as Woody)
Luckman Fine Arts Complex / CSLA
**CSLA’s 50th Anniversary Commemoration Production
Morongo: Indian Gaming in California, 1996-1997
(Co-Producer / Director / Co-Editor)
Video Short
Raves: Generation Zero's Collective Consciousness Raising, 1997
Video Short (Producer / Director/ Co-Editor)
Zanatany: Children of the Ancestors, 1994-1997
(Co-Producer / Director)
Video (Various lengths)
Madagascar, Africa
*In A Woman's Voice, 1994-1996
(Producer/ Performance Trainer/Director /Writer)
Los Angeles Theatre Center
The Tempest, 1996
(Director)
Luckman Fine Arts Patio / CSLA
Site-Specific Production
Don Juan: El burlador de sevilla / Don Juan: The Trickster of Seville, 1996
(Director/Adaptor)
Teatro Universitario / CSLA
*Bilingual production
(Performed in separate Spanish and English versions).
Adaptation of the original text by Theresa Larkin (in English)
& by Felipe Diaz (in Spanish).
Los enemigos/ The Enemies, 1995
(Director, Adaptor)
Teatro Universitario / CSLA
*Bilingual production
(Performed in separate Spanish & English versions).
Co-production with CSLA's Departments of Anthropology, Art, Chicano Studies, Latin American Studies, Modern Languages, Theatre Arts and Dance, CAST, ACCION, SUPER, Educational Opportunity Program, and Kinko's
*Black and White and Somewhere in the Shade of Grey, 1993-1995
(Producer, Director, Co-Writer, Tour Coordinator)
CSLA
1993
USC
1994
Los Angeles Theatre Center
1995
Quilter's, 1988, 1991, 1993
(Director)
**Idaho Shakespeare Festival, Boise
(Two separate productions: 1988 & 1993)
***Invited Back by Popular Demand
(Directed first in 1988. Mounted a different version in 1993)
The Music Hall
CSLA, 1991
The Artists' Collective Big Spring Festival, 1993
(Producer)
Four New Works Premiered
Neva's Tale, 1993
(C0-Producer)
Theatre for the 21st Century & The Artists’ Collective
CSLA
Los Angeles Theatre Center
** Winner NAACP Award
**Dramalogue Award
The Haunting, 1993
(Producer)
The Artists' Collective
Los Angeles Theatre Center
Larry Swell's Big Bang, 1993
(Producer)
The Artists' Collective
Los Angeles Theatre Center
Life and Death: The Vaudeville Show, 1993
(C0-Producer)
The Artists' Collective & Indecent Exposure
Los Angeles Theatre Center
Tour to Santiago, Cuba
Latino Classical Repertory Fundraiser, 1993
(Producer, Co-Director with Ruben Sierra)
Guest Artists Robert Beltran, Andy Garcia, the late Raul Julia, Paul Rodriguez, Martin Sheen, Rachel Ticotin, Cheech Marin (Emcee)
The Artists’ Collective & Latino Classical Repertory Theatre
Los Angeles Theatre Company
Gilgamesh, 1993
(Producer)
Theatre for the 21st Century
CSLA
Community Tour
A Touch Of The Poet, 1993
(C0-Producer)
Theatre for the 21st Century, The Artist’s Collective
& Latino Classical Repertory
Arena Theatre
CSLA
** LA Best Bets
Adaptation set in rural Mexico.
Inaugural production directed by the late Ruben Sierra.
LA Talks, 1993
(Producer)
Theatre for the 21st Century & The Artist’s Collective
Arena Theatre
Measure for Measure, 1993
(Director, Producer)
Theatre for the 21st Century & The Artist’s Collective
State Playhouse, CSLA
Joe Louis Blues, 1992
(C0-Producer)
Theatre for the 21st Century & The Artists’ Collective
Oliveri Productions
Los Angeles Theatre Center
Othello, 1992
(Director, Producer)
Theatre for the 21st Century & The Artists’ Collective
State Playhouse, CSLA
Curse, 1992
(Producer)
Theatre for the 21st Century & The Artists’ Collective
State Playhouse, CSLA
Latino Classical Repertory
(Founded 1992)
Co-founders with Theresa Larkin
Tony Plana, Ruben Sierra, Julie Arenal, Robert Beltran
& Bert Rosario
Working, 1991
(Producer)
Theatre for the 21st Century & The Artists’ Collective
State Playhouse, CSLA
Carnival, 1991
(Director, Producer)
Theatre for the 21st Century & The Artists’ Collective
State Playhouse, CSLA
The Artists' Collective
(Founded 1991)
Co-founders with Theresa Larkin
Binnur Karaevli, Shishir Kurup & Susan Rubin)
1991-Present
Theatre For The 21st Century
(Founded 1990)
Semi-Professional Theatre Company
Spoon River Anthology 1989
(Director)
Irvine Valley College
Theatre Zoe
(Founded 1987)
Producing Theatre
After The First Death, 1989
(Producer)
Ventura Court Theatre
Shakespeare’s Women, 1982-1989
(Writer / Director / Performer)
Touring Production
Not About Heroes, 1988
(Director)
Studio Theatre
San Jose State University
America Hurrah, 1988
(Director)
Studio Theatre
San Jose State University
Aunt Dan and Lemon, 1988
(Director)
Studio Theatre
San Jose State University
The Winter’s Tale, 1988
(Director)
San Jose State University
**Equity Guest Artist Robert Sicular (Ashland)
**Founded Shakespearean Training Institute
The Robber Bridegroom, 1986
(Director)
San Jose State University
Summerfolk, 1986
(Director
SIU Carbondale
The Three Sisters, 1986
(Director)
SIU Carbondale
Miss Julie, 1986
(Director)
SIU Carbondale
Carousel, 1985
(Director)
SIU Carbondale
Summer Repertory Theatre
The Importance of Being Earnest, 1985
(Director
SIU Carbondale
Rashomon, 1984
(Director)
SIU Carbondale
Strange Snow, 1983
(Director)
UC Irvine
Shakespeare’s Women, 1982
(Director, Writer, Actress, Producer)
World Premiere with William Needles
UC Irvine
Lu Ann Hampton Laverty Oberlander, 1981
(Producer, Lead Actress)
Zephyr Theatre
**Won LA Dramalogue Award for ‘Best Actress’ 1981
Cited ‘Legend of Los Angeles Theatre’ 2002
The Shadow Box, 1980
(Director)
UC Irvine
Double Solitaire, 1977
(Director)
Loyola Marymount, LA
The Great American Musical, 1976
(Workshop Director)
University of London
