Guillermo Aviles-Rodriguez
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Guillermo Avilés-Rodríguez holds a PhD from the UCLA department of Theatre Film and Television. He has collaborated with Spanish-speaking theatre groups in the U.S. including Grupo malayerba from Ecuador, Yuyachkani from Peru and Teatro de los andes from Bolivia. His translations include Argentinian, Mexican, and portions of many American plays. He is also the 2021 co-winner of the Lowrider Studies Scholar-Activist of the Year Award, and was a member of the Young Scholars Symposium Institute for Latino Studies at University of Notre Dame. In 2021 and 2022 he participated in the Mellon School for Theater & Performance Research at Harvard university.
ORCID iD- 10.1017/s0954586723000113
Click here for a short biographical podcast interview: https://open.spotify.com/episode/7kXl6JuJFgMHacvJZ3fTQw
Education
PhD, Department of Theater Film and Television—University of California, Los Angeles, 2021
Master of Fine Arts, Theater—University of California, San Diego, 2002
Bachelor of Fine Arts, Theater (Actor Training Program)—University of Utah, 1999
Single Subject Credential/Preliminary English—National University, 2008
Courses/Teaching
Fundamentals of Directing
Dramatic Literature of Identity: Latinx Theatre
Theatre in the Classroom
Theatre for Youth: History and Literature
Acting for All Majors
Research and Teaching Interests
Theatre Education
Chicana/o Culture
Aztec Philosophy
Performance Studies
Lowriding
The Watts Towers