Select Credits Include: Magellanica; The Berlin Diaries, The Vertical City, Today is My Birthday, The Great Divide (ART, Oregon Shakespeare Festival), Romeo and Juliet (Oregon Shakespeare Festival), We, the Invisibles (Humana Festival of New American Plays), Kings (South Coast Rep), Wolf Play; Cuba Libre, La Ruta, The Humans, An Octoroon, Everybody, Tribes, The Liar, Exiles, Trevor, The Big Meal, Feathers & Teeth, 1984, The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart, Foxfinder, The Skin of Our Teeth, The Miracle Worker, The Playboy of the Western World (ART), The Heiress, The Little Foxes, Orson’s Shadow, Aunt Stossie's Coming for Five Days (Pasadena Playhouse), The Prince of Atlantis (South Coast Rep), Paradise Lost (Intiman Theatre), Blithe Spirit, The Eccentricities of a Nightingale, Desire Under the Elms, The Doctor’s Dilemma (A Noise Within), Grace, Boom, Hunter Gatherers, The Pain and the Itch, Back of the Throat, The God Botherers, Canned Peaches in Syrup, An Impending Rupture of the Belly, No Good Deed, Pure Shock Value (Furious).

Dámaso Rodgríguez

Dámaso Rodríguez served for nine seasons as Executive Artistic Director of Artists’ Repertory Theatre (ART), Portland's longest-running professional theatre company, which became a member of the League of Resident Theatres (LORT) under his leadership. Plays developed during his tenure have been produced in New York, Chicago, London, and throughout the country. Acclaim for ART-developed projects include the Dramatists Guild Foundation Award, the Edgerton “New Play” Award, NEA Funding, American Theatre Magazine’s “Most Produced Plays” list, and coverage in the New Yorker and the New York Times. In 2021, the Oregon Media Production Association honored ART with the “Creative Innovation” Award for the company’s pivot to digital mediums in response to the COVID-19 Pandemic.

Dámaso is a co-founder of LA’s Furious Theatre, where he served as Co-Artistic Director from 2001-12. From 2007-10 he served as Associate Artistic Director of the Pasadena Playhouse, where he directed main stage productions and oversaw programming for the Playhouse’s second stage, including its Hothouse New Play Development Program. He has directed a broad range of new and classic plays, including over twenty ART productions, along with work at the Pasadena Playhouse, Intiman Theatre, South Coast Repertory, Actors’ Theatre of Louisville, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, American Conservatory Theater, Seattle Rep, A Noise Within, the Playwrights' Center, New Dramatists, the New Harmony Project, the Theatre at Boston Court, and Furious Theatre. 

Dámaso is a recipient of the LA Drama Critics Circle Award, the Back Stage Garland Award, the NAACP Theatre Award, and the Pasadena Arts Council’s “Gold Crown” Award. He was honored as a finalist for the Zelda Fichandler Award by the Stage Directors & Choreographers Foundation, and was named a “Knowledge Universe Rising Star” by Portland Monthly. His productions have received or been nominated for dozens of awards, including the LA Stage Alliance Ovation Award, LA Stage Scene Award, and the LA Weekly Theatre Award. He is a member of the Stage Directors & Choreographers Society.