Mr. Guillermo G. Aviles-Rodriguez
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Biography

Guillermo Avilés-Rodríguez was born in Compton, California, and raised in Watts; he has built a career around using theater as a way of exploring issues of social inequality as well as self-empowerment. His study of theater has taken him all over the Americas and to the Caribbean. Through a Cornerstone Theater Company residency in Watts Guillermo was able to attend the University of Utah (U of U) in Salt Lake City, Utah. There he excelled both academically and artistically. On the academic front, the highlight was becoming a National Hispanic Scholar, and earning a Bachelors of Fine Arts from the U of U’s conservatory Actors Training Program. On the artistic front he earned the distinction of being the first Chicana/o ever to star in a main-stage production at the University of Utah. Upon graduating from the University of Utah, Guillermo was one of eight actors accepted into the prestigious MFA program at the University of California San Diego. At UCSD Guillermo became an active part of the political theater movement, performing guerrilla theater shows and political satire on campuses and at the famed Ché Café. While at UCSD he devised a plan to study political theater in Cuba in the summer of 2001. His expertise working with at-risk youth in developing original work is highly sought after. He has worked with paroled and group home youths for The Unusual Suspects and as a traveling drama specialist for MudTown Arts Education. He is a member of Grupo Apolo a Spanish-language theater group in Los Angeles. As a drama specialist and playwright/director Guillermo has worked with the Nationwide ArtsBridge outreach program as well as multiple residencies and collaborations with many after school, teen and social service programs. He believes in using drama to help youth channel energies into productive endeavors, as well as a socially conscious, process oriented approach to theater creation.$0 $0 Guillermo has written and directed many original plays for students from elementary to university level. Some of Guillermo’s directorial and literary highlights include two commissions from Center Theatre Group to write student Discovery Guides for En Un Sol Amarillo and Palestine, New Mexico. As well as directing A Bicycle Country by Nilo Cruz at California State University at Long Beach. He is the proud Artistic Director of Watts Village Theater Company and was an adjunct professor at College of the Desert where he directed Inherit the Wind by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee, before joining the Los Angeles Mission community. $0

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