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“Ruben Carrazana is a theater visionary.” - Manuel Mendoza, Dallas Morning News
Up Next
May 2024: Ruben will be co-directing Mudpie, a show adapted from the creative writing of youth and performed by their peers, at Mudlark Theater. More info HERE.
July 2024: Ruben will be directing/producing What’s in the Box?, a short film inspired by a previous project of his, thanks to a City of Chicago Individual Artist Program Grant. More info on the original short film HERE.
September 2024: Ruben will be directing See Me, an original devised theatrical performance funded by the Eisemann Edge Initiative, produced by OutLoud Dallas. More info HERE.
February 2025: Ruben will be a guest director at Southern Methodist University where he will be directing a production of Blood Wedding. More info HERE.
Press
Click here for a feature on Ruben by The Dallas Morning News.
Click here for a feature on Ruben by Voyage Dallas.
Click here for an interview with Ruben by Cry Havoc Theater.
About Ruben Carrazana
Ruben Carrazana is an actor, director, writer, producer, and teaching artist originally from Miami. After working professionally in the Dallas theater scene for several years, he moved to Chicago, and was formerly the Community Engagement Manager at Northlight Theatre.
As an actor he has worked with Steppenwolf Theatre, Remy Bumppo Theatre, Broken Nose Theatre, Dallas Theater Center, Stage West, Kitchen Dog Theater, Undermain Theatre, Second Thought Theatre, Theatre Three, the Danielle Georgiou Dance Group, and Prism Movement Theater. Onscreen acting credits include Chicago PD, Walgreens, Nordstrom, Frito Lay, Taco Bueno, and CAT Financial. He is represented by Grossman & Jack Talent.
Directing credits include Lifeline Theatre, Broken Nose Theatre, BoHo Theatre, Pegasus Theatre Chicago, Stage West, Second Thought Theatre, Cry Havoc Theater, Cara Mía Theatre, Latino/Oak Cliff Cultural Center, and he was a guest director at James Madison University.
As a writer, Ruben has been commissioned by Kitchen Dog Theater and the Danielle Georgiou Dance Group. He was a finalist for Echo Theater’s National Young Playwrights in Residence program, and his stage play She was awarded an Honorable Mention from the Southwest Playwriting Festival. His play Stacy Has A Thing For Black Guys was recommended for the American Theatre Critics Association/Harold and Mimi Steinberg New Play Award, and was adapted into a feature film in 2019 by TZOM Films, in association with Adam and Elliot Moving Pictures. He currently serves as a script reader for the Denver Center for the Performing Arts.
Ruben is a recipient of the Eisemann Edge Initiative grant, the Edyth Renshaw Award, an Activating Vacancy grant from bcWORKSHOP and the National Endowment for the Arts, a TACA Resiliency Initiative Grant, an Individual Artists Program Grant from the City of Chicago, a grant from the Illinois Arts Council Agency, and a three-time recipient of grants from the City of Dallas Office of Arts and Culture. He also co-founded The Tribe, a theater collective dedicated to the development of original work in Dallas, and named a Dallas Mastermind by the Dallas Observer. He is currently a Steering Committee member of the Cultural Access Collaborative.
Ruben holds a BFA in Theatre from Southern Methodist University.