Michelle Lopez-Rios

Michelle Lopez-Rio

Voice & Text Director, Julius Caesar; Mojada: A Medea in Los Angeles

Other theatres: Regional: Measure for Measure (Goodman Theatre); Othello, Hamlet, The Taming of the Shrew, Comedy of Errors (Houston Shakespeare Festival); A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur; The Train Driver; Boeing, Boeing; The Good Father; Talking Heads; Duet for One; Driving Miss Daisy; Picnic; The Sum of Us (Milwaukee Chamber Theatre); Educating Rita, Crumbs from the Table of Joy (Renaissance Theaterworks); James and the Giant Peach, Luchadora (First Stage) and others. 

Other credits: Founder of The Royal Mexican Players. 

Teaching: Head of the BFA Acting Program at University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, Adjunct Voice Professor at University of Houston. 

Directing: One Hot Texican Summer (or the summer I found out I was Mexican) (The Royal Mexican Players); The Mole Hill Stories (First Stage); Enfrascada (Renaissance Theaterworks); Precious Lives (371 Productions) and others. 

Professional affiliations: Voice and Speech Trainers Association board of directors. 

Education: MFA, University of Houston; BFA, University of Southern California.