Rodrigo García

Stage Director/Artistic Director — 2020 Artist SVLaureate

The SVLaureates Program of SVCREATES is a prestigious honor given annually to South Bay-based artists in a variety of categories and disciplines. The Laureates are chosen based not only on their individual body of work, but also on their community involvement, educational efforts, volunteerism, and other forms of engagement.

After working with the San Jose–based Chicanx theater company Teatro Visión for nearly a decade, actor, director, and educator Rodrigo García moved into the role of artistic director in 2017. Teatro Visión presents professional-quality theatrical productions to the South Bay, bringing relevant cultural works to the Spanish-speaking and immigrant populations here, and often partnering with other local nonprofits to leverage the spotlight on the themes in their productions into efforts that benefit the community. García’s work is key to these collaborations.

A graduate of the National Institute of Fine Arts in Mexico City in modern dance and drama, he has created Spanish translations of numerous stage productions by American Latinx writers, including Rudolfo Anaya, Octavio…