Ramon Esquivel
Ramón Esquivel is a playwright and educator. His plays have been produced in theatres, universities, and schools in New York, Chicago, Washington DC, Austin, Pittsburgh, Vancouver BC, Seattle, and elsewhere in North America. Ramón is a 2021 nominee for the 4 Seasons Playwrights Residency and a recipient of a 2021 ReImagine Grant from Write Now, Theatre for Young Audiences/USA, and the Children's Theatre...
Ramón Esquivel is a playwright and educator. His plays have been produced in theatres, universities, and schools in New York, Chicago, Washington DC, Austin, Pittsburgh, Vancouver BC, Seattle, and elsewhere in North America. Ramón is a 2021 nominee for the 4 Seasons Playwrights Residency and a recipient of a 2021 ReImagine Grant from Write Now, Theatre for Young Audiences/USA, and the Children's Theatre Foundation of America. His play ¡O Cascadia! was developed at the Seven Devils Playwrights Conference in 2019. Recent premieres include The Hero Twins: Blood Race at the Magick Theatre (San Antonio), University of Texas at Austin, Appalachian State University; Above Between Below, which tours Washington and Oregon schools through a collaboration between Seattle Children’s Theatre, Oregon Children’s Theatre, and Kaiser Permanente; and Dulce at Pacific Conservatory Theatre (PCPA) and the Austin Latino New Play Festival. Available through Dramatic Publishing are three plays, Luna, Nasty, and Nocturnal, and works featured in two anthologies, New Visions/New Voices: 25 Years/25 Plays, and also Palabras del Cielo: An Exploration of Latina/o Theatre for Young Audiences. Recently, Ramón was a producer and dramaturg for the Brave New Play Rites festival of new work in Vancouver, Canada. He has taught English, history, drama, and creative writing in Washington DC, New York City, Vancouver, and Seattle, and been a guest artist at the University of Texas at Austin, Appalachian State University, Whitman College, Northwestern University, Central Washington University, and Phoenix College. Ramón is currently Assistant Professor of Theatre - Playwriting at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo. Education: B.A. History, Yale University; M.A. Educational Theatre for Colleges and Communities, New York University; M.F.A. Creative Writing, University of British Columbia.