Fernando Calzadilla

Fernando Calzadilla is a theater designer, dramaturg, scholar, teacher, visual and performance artist with a multi-cultural background that weaves practice with theory to expand the scope of his art. His interdisciplinary practice comprises performance, theatre, ethnography, visual arts, and communication processes from the Performance Studies perspective. He has a BFA in Theater Design and a MA/PhD in Performance Studies all from New York University. He is one of the six licensed rasaboxes instructors in the world. For the last nine years he has been Dramaturg/Resident Artist for Miami Theater Center where he has co-authored with Artistic Director Stephanie Ansin three original plays and four adaptations. He has designed sets, lights, and costumes for all of them. All strands of his practice are centered around the human body, color, and light questioning gender and genre classifications as well as the separation between process and product.