Rubén Ortíz

Editor, writer, theater director and theater educationalist

Majored in Hispanic Literature at UNAM and Theater Directing at the Forum Contemporary Theater (Foro Teatro Contemporáneo).

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He has carried out more than twenty plays in Mexico and other countries, in which he has worked in a wide spectrum of styles: Dramatic theater (The Fight with the Angel, by Ibargüengoitia, 1994), one-person spectacles based on physical theater (Self-Confession and The Mute Life, with Gerardo Trejoluna, 2003 and 2009), as well as contemporary theater and for specific sites (Axolotl —in Prague— with Héctor Bourges, 2005; and Some of That, at the Galería Sector Reforma in Guadalajara, 2006). With The Human Comedy, he is carrying out a tetralogy (Hell, Limbo, Purgatory and Paradise) which explores matters of daily life, as well as the overlapping of disciplines. As an educationalist, he has given classes in acting, theater directing and seminars in various professional education centers around the country. He has given performing arts workshops and laboratories in various cities around the country and abroad. Also, he has written poetry compilations, articles and essays about theater for various magazines and cultural supplements in Mexico, Spain and Ecuador. He edited the logbook for the play Quartet, by Ludwik Margules (1997), and is the author of the book The Master without a Kingdom (Paso de Gato ediciones, 2007). From 2003 to 2012 he was editor for the CITRU publications.