Christian Ávila

Christian Ávila is a theater director, playwright, activist, and a Drama League Directing Fellow based in New York City. Recent credits include Dark Yes -work in progress(with Richard Schechner/co-creator and ensemble member), Electability (co-creator, Theatre in Asylum), Masseur (co-director, playwright, producer) at Theater for the New City 2018 Dream Up-Festival, Daddy’s Boy (writer, director, producer) Theater for the New City in 2015, The Debates 2018 (co-creator, Theater in Asylum), performed at The Drama League, and Chasing the Dream (Co-creator, performer) Columbia University. Ávila is founding member of Back to Work Collective, creating Feminist Flashmob performed at The Women’s March on Washington D.C. in 2017. Other credits include: Big Love, Alice, Falling in Line at PTC, Secret Love in Peach Blossom Land at TDPS, Berkeley. On stage in 20 Questions and Last Unicorn at TDPS, and on screen as Host and Co-Creator of Club TV in San Francisco. He holds an M.A. in Theater from LIU Post and an undergraduate degree in Dramatic Art from UC Berkeley. He has trained under the tutelage of Stan Lai, Anne Bogart, SITI Company, and Richard Schechner.

With Theater in Asylum: The Debates 2020, The Debates 2018

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