Rudy Ramirez is a director, writer and teaching artist specializing in the development of new work and new artists. They have directed and developed work for a number of organizations around the country, including Colby College, Contemporary American Theater Festival, INTAR Theatre, The Lark, Latino Theater Company, Lexington Children’s Theater, Herman Melville’s Arrowhead, National Queer Theater, New York Theatre Workshop, New York University, Octopus Theatricals, The Playwrights’ Center, Red Bull Theatre, The San Antonio Public, Shrewd Productions, Sky Candy Aerial Arts, Southwestern University, Teatro Audaz, Teatro Vivo, Signature Theatre, and the University of Texas at Austin. They are the Associate Artistic Director of The VORTEX. Awards include Best Director in the Austin Chronicle Reader’s Poll in 2017, 10 B. Iden Payne Awards and an Austin Critics’ Table Award. They were finalists for the NNPN Director’s Fellowship and the TCG Alan Schneider Award. They received fellowships from Texas Performing Arts, Fusebox Festival and MOSAIC, and earned an MA in Performance from the University of Texas at Austin and an MFA in Directing from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. They are excited to be teaching at the University of Connecticut.