Alvaro
Saar Rios is
a Texican playwright living in Chicago. His plays have been performed in New
York City, Mexico City, Hawaii, Chicago, St. Louis, Seattle, Milwaukee and all
over Texas. He has received playwriting commissions from various organizations,
including the Kennedy Center, Chicago Children’s Theatre, First Stage, Houston
Grand Opera, Honolulu Theatre for Youth, Purple Rose Theatre Company, Houston
Community College, Zoological Society of Milwaukee and The Rose Theater. Rios'
award-winning play Luchadora! is published by Dramatic Publishing. Other
plays include Unmuted, On the Wings of a Mariposa, The Day the
Music Came Back and Carmela Full of Wishes. He holds an MFA in writing
for the stage and screen from Northwestern University. Rios is
playwright-in-residence at Milwaukee’s First Stage and a former resident
playwright at Chicago Dramatists. He is also a proud veteran of the U.S. Army
and the former singer of a death metal band you've never heard of. Currently, Rios
is an associate professor at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
