Jaime Castañeda

Theater

Jaime Castañeda

Princess Grace Award:
Directing Apprenticeship, 2008, Gant Gaither Theater Award

Jaime Castañeda, Director: New York City - Welcome to Arroyos (Summer Play Festival) One for the Road (DirectorFest) Regional - Crave, Closer, Momentahn, Blue/Orange, Nocturne, Sonnets for an Old Century (FireStarter Productions) Red Light Winter (Perseverance Theatre) Attack of the Asians (Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, 10 minute play festival) This is How it Goes (Amphibian Stage Productions) Lincolnesque (Circle Theatre) Assistant director: Anon, Almost an Evening, Parlour Song (Atlantic Theater Company) Pig Farm (Old Globe Theatre) Going Gone (Cincinnati Playhouse) Two Unrelated Plays (Center Theatre Group). Jaime has received various Dallas/Fort Worth Critics Forum awards, a Live Theatre League award, and a Drama League fall fellowship.  He is an associate member of the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers. Jaime is currently developing a new play with Kristoffer Diaz at American Theatre Company with Teatro Vista in Chicago.  He is the Producing Artistic Director and Founder of FireStarter Productions.  Education: MFA, Directing (University of Texas at Austin).


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