Positions
Biography
Ernest Figueroa has been a dedicated director, producer, actor and playwright in theatre, film and television throughout the country. As a founding director of Directors Lab West he has served on the Steering Committee from 2000 to the present which now boasts over 300 alumni. He was a member director and presenter for the Lincoln Center Theater Directors Lab in New York in 1998 and 1999. He directed the New York premiere of Dos Corazones representing the Lincoln Center Theater Directors Lab Festival @ HERE in New York. Since 2008 Figueroa has served as Producer at the state-of-the-art Broad Stage, a 541-seat presenting house located at the new Santa Monica College Performing Arts Center. There he assists on the programming and coordinates production of the season that includes notable artists in the fields of opera, jazz, choral, chamber and orchestral music, theatre and dance. He served as Artistic Director of The Group Rep at the Lonny Chapman Theatre in North Hollywood from 2009- 2010 and as a Director and performer with the second longest running show in Los Angeles, the American Girl Revue from 2004-2006. He was the Associate Artistic Director for the Sacramento Theatre Company from 1996 – 1998 where he also served as casting director and literary manager. Previously, he worked as the national Education Director for Plays for Living, Inc. in New York City and worked twice on the professional staff of the Pasadena Playhouse. He currently works as a Director and Producer with Bonnie Franklin’s outreach program, C.C.A.P. – Classic and Contemporary American Plays. With C.C.A.P. he has directed a large variety of staged-readings including All My Sons starring Ms. Franklin, A Touch of the Poet starring David Birney, Death of a Salesman starring Michael Gross, and Broadway Bound with Harold Gould.
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