Associate Producer of New Work and Innovation & Strategy

Community Producer, Where We Belong

victor cervantes jr. is a theatermaker, educator, and community organizer from Phoenix, Arizona. Currently they are the Associate Producer of New Work and Innovation & Strategy at Oregon Shakespeare Festival and the Creative Producer for New Roots: A Queer Artist Residency at Walhalla Farm. In 2022 they produced 7 Minutes by Stefano Massini (The Lehman Trilogy on Broadway) and directed by Mei Ann Teo with Waterwell Production; and a sold-out run of The Pool Plays (3 Premieres in Repertory by Kate Cortesi, Brenda Withers, and Emily Zemba) at The New Ohio Theater in NYC. In 2020 they were the Creative Producer for The Homebound Project, a fundraiser for No Kid Hungry, which raised over $150K. They are the former Associate Producer at Rattlestick Playwrights Theater (Seasons 23 + 24), former Co-Artistic Producer of MiddleVoice at Rattlestick (2013–2018). They have enjoyed teaching for NTI at The O'Neill Theater Center, ASU, Hunter College, NYU, and schools serving the ASD community. They offer reading and dramaturgy services to American Music Theatre Project, National Alliance for Musical Theatre, NMTC at O'Neill, Space on Ryder Farm, Theater Producers of Color, USC MFA Theatre Program, UT Austin New Works Festival. They aim to support and uplift BIPOC+ Queer and Trans artists and stories to more visible platforms, and to reach communities that have been pushed to the margins. 1st-generation college graduate: BFA NYU/Tisch School for the Arts, Lee Strasberg Centennial Scholar + Martin Luther King Jr. Scholar.