Positions
Biography
Dámaso Rodriguez is Co-founder and Resident Director of Los Angeles’ Furious Theatre Company, where he served as Co-artistic Director from 2001-2011. From 2007- 2010 he served as Associate Artistic Director of the Pasadena Playhouse, where he directed main stage productions and oversaw all programming for the Playhouse’s second stage, including its Hothouse New Play Development Program. He recently became Artist Director of the Los Angeles hub of the LoNyLa Project, a global network and transatlantic lab that links London, New York and L.A. artists working to develop material for stage, film and television. He has directed over 25 acclaimed productions at theatres such as Seattle's Tony Award-winning Intiman Theatre, the Pasadena Playhouse, A Noise Within, The Theatre@Boston Court and Furious Theatre. Directing credits include the reading of Steven Drukman’s The Prince of Atlantis for the Pacific Playwrights Festival at South Coast Repertory, Clifford Odets’ Paradise Lost at Intiman Theatre; Lillian Hellman’s The Little Foxes (starring Kelly McGillis) and Austin Pendleton’s Orson’s Shadow (starring Sharon Lawrence) at the Pasadena Playhouse; Noel Coward’s Blithe Spirit (Starring Scott Lowell), Tennessee Williams’ The Eccentricities of a Nightingale and Eugene O’Neill’s Desire Under the Elms (November 2011) at A Noise Within. Furious Theatre credits include the Los Angeles premieres of Peter Sinn Nachtrieb’s Boom and Hunter Gatherers, Bruce Norris’ The Pain and the Itch (a co-production with the Theatre@Boston Court), Craig Wright's Grace, Yussef El Guindi's Back of the Throat, Neil LaBute's The Shape of Things, and the world premieres of Alex Jones’ Canned Peaches in Syrup and Matt Pelfrey’s An Impending Rupture of the Belly and No Good Deed (January 2012), among many others. His film credits include the darkly comic no-budget feature film Pure Shock Value, which was selected as the “Centerpiece Film” of the Hollywood Fringe Festival.
Productions
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Director BLITHE SPIRIT (2010) |
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Director THE PAIN AND THE ITCH (2009) |
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Director THE PAIN AND THE ITCH (2009) |
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Director The Eccentricities of a Nightingale (2011) |
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Director FACT & FICTION (2011) |
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Director Desire Under the Elms (2011) |
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Director NOgoodDEED (2012) |
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Director The Boomerang Effect (2012) |
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Director The Heiress (2012) |