Dámaso Rodríguez

I started my career in Chicago, where I spent my first three years out of college.  I was an actor back then, dabbling in directing.  It's fun being back to remount Fact & Fiction with William Nedved and Adam Silver which I directed last summer in L.A. as part of the Hollywood Fringe Festival.  We're presenting it at The Gift Theatre, a fantastic company that Will co-founded.  Here's a cool piece in Time Out. The show is a very raw, very simple confessional piece (2 monologues), but the way W...
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THE HEIRESS
By Ruth and Augustus Goetz
Suggested by the Henry James Novel Washington Square
Starring
Richard Chamberlain
Heather Tom
and
Julia Duffy
Directed By Dámaso Rodriguez

An American Classic

April 24 – May 20, 2012 (Opens April 29)

Catherine Sloper, who stands to inherit a fortune from her ailing physician father, is a plain-looking young woman living under his malevolent scrutiny, as well as his well-meaning but cold-hearted demeanor. Dr. Sloper disapproves of Catherine's passionate s...
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I really enjoyed working with Matt, Del and a wonderful cast and production team on The Boomerang Effect!  The show runs through April 29 at the Odyssey Theatre.

Shores and Rodriguez Catch Leavitt’s Boomerang

Playwright Matthew Leavitt fittingly dedicates the premiere of The Bo...

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Furious Theatre Company
is back with the world premiere of
“No Good Deed”
a live-on-stage graphic novel adventure
at [Inside] the Ford

LOS ANGELES – December 13, 2011 – Get Furious! Furious Theatre Company is back with a gritty and savagely humorous live-on-stage action adventure that is part theater and part graphic novel. The world premiere of No Good Deed, written by Furious playwright-in-residence Matt Pelfrey, directed by Dámaso Rodriguez and featuring graphic illustrations b...

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I'm in prep and pre-production for Desire, which will audition at the beginning of next month and start rehearsals in October---at A Noise Within's brand new 281-seat home in Pasadena.  I'm honored to be part of the inaugural season and continue to be blown away by the play.

Desire Under The Elms

By Eugene O'Neill

Directed by Damaso Rodriguez
November 19 - December 18, 2011
(Previews begin November 12)

Young Eben Cabot's keen and greedy eye is on the farm. His father's voluptuous new bride Abby...

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I spent the summer in rehearsal with a great cast for Kyle Jarrow's very cool new play produced by Lisa Brenner's new company, Electric Footlights.  We open next week in a very limited run (just 8 performances).  Check it out.



ELECTRIC FOOTLIGHTS PRESENTS
In this dark comedy from Obie-Award winning playwright Kyle Jarrow, a man’s wife gets in a crippling car accident while he's in bed with another woman, and he begins to wonder: do his actions have the power to cause disaster?

STARRING
Micha...
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June 18, 2011 By Kathryn Osenlund

All around the TCG conference and concurrent festivals, theater people are voicing questions and concerns about the viral encroachment of media into theater. Speculation on eventual outcomes abounds. 

Into the fray comes the Furious Theatre Company – premiering a movie. So from the get-go, Pure Shock Value is about as encroached as it gets.

Film was the next logical step for them, according to Managing Director Nick Cernoch. It’s a first film by direc...

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