Alma Martinez: Director

DIRECTING
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PRODUCTIONS

 Zoot Suit - encore production Seaver Theatre, Pomona College, Claremont, CA
 Zoot Suit - 30th Anniversary Production Seaver Theatre, Pomona College, Claremont, CA
 Between Pancho Villa and a Naked Woman Mainstage, UC Santa Cruz, CA
 Heroes and Saints Teatro Vision, San Jose, CA
 La Gran Carpa de Los Rasquachis El Teatro Campesino Playhouse, San Juan Bautista, CA.
 La Gran Carpa de Los Rasquachis BRAVA! Theatre, San Francisco, CA
 La Gran Carpa de Los Rasquachis United Farm Workers, Watsonville, CA
 La Gran Carpa de Los Rasquachis Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA.
 Bed of Stone (written by Alma Martinez) Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA
 La Quinta Temporada Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA

STAGED READINGS

 Perdita Theatre Works, Palo Alto, CA
 Vieques Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
 Zoot Suit (1995-1999) Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA

EDUCATION

 Ph.D. Directing and Critical Theory in Drama, Stanford University
 M.F.A. Acting University of Southern California, BA Theater
 BA Drama, Whittier College

ADDITIONAL TRAINING

 Luis Valdez, San Juan Bautista, CA
 Ariane Mnouchkine/Theatre du Soleil, Paris
 Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts, London
 Lee Strasberg Master Acting Class, Hollywood, CA
 Jerzi Grotowski Para Theatre Lab, Berkeley, CA
 Autonomous University of Mexico, UNAM, Mexico City (C.U.T.-Centro Universitario de Teatro),
 Ibero-American University, Mexico City
 Augusto Boal, University of California Northridge, Dartmouth College
 University of Guadalajara, Theatre Department, Jalisco, Mexico

AWARDS

 Back Stage West “Garland Award”, Los Angeles, CA – Acting Mummified Deer (2000)
 Barrio Station, San Diego, CA - Quarter Cen