A VISIT FROM SAN CRISTOBAL

Gregory Ramos studied and taught dance in Los Angeles before beginning his professional career. He has appeared on television and toured the U.S. and Europe as a performer in numerous shows and national tours. He studied acting at Playwrights Horizons and with Academy Award winning actor Ellen Burstyn before completing his MFA in Playwriting at UCLA. His short plays Reaching Mercy and Breasts were produced in New York City. He has performed his original solo plays Border Stories and When We Danced in venues across the country. Ramos’s play for young audiences, Cuentos de Josefina (Josephine’s Tales), based on Mexican family ghost stories, was published by YouthPLAYS. Gregory has directed and/or choreographed plays and musicals at universities and at professional theatre companies around the country. Ramos held the position of national secretary for the American Theatre in Higher Education’s Latino Focus Group. At The University of Vermont he directed the Critical Race and Ethnic Studies Program and was Professor and Chair in the Department of Theatre and Dance. He is currently Chair of the Department of Theatre and Dance at the University of Redlands where he teaches directing, playwriting, and courses related to diversity in the U.S. American Theatre. He has taught in The Stella Adler Conservatory’s summer musical theatre intensive program. Gregory is a member of Actor’s Equity Association and the Lincoln Center Directors Lab.