Rudy Ramirez
Associate Artistic Director

Rudy Ramirez is an Associate Artistic Director of The Vortex Repertory Company. Rudy is a MA/PhD student in the Performance as Public Practice program in the department of Theatre and Dance at the University of Texas at Austin. As a writer, director and performer, he specializes in the creation of new solo and collaborative work and has created two full-length autobiographical performance pieces, Promised Land: A Radical Queer Revival (2009) and Footnotes for People Who Don't Speak Spanish (2011, performed with Beliza Torres Narvaez). He has performed solo pieces with Spike Gillespie's The Dick Monologues (2007-2009) and You're What's Wrong with America (2011), as well as at numerous venues around Austin. He is the performance director for The Austin Bike Zoo, with whom he has created Wheels of Wonderland (2009) and An Oddity Odyssey (2010).

Directorial work at the VORTEX

• Lear
• The Physicists (Summer Youth Theatre)
• Dragonfly Queen (AD)
• Sleeping Beauty (AD)
• You Can't Take It With You (AD: Summer Youth Theatre)

Appearances at the VORTEX

• Sarah Silver Hands
• The Secret Lives of the InBetweeners
• Promised Land: A Radical Queer Revival
• Footnotes for People Who Don't Speak Spanish

Additional directing credits include The History of the Garden (2003) and Getting Off: Stories of Sexuality and Consent (2004), created with the Rhizome Collective, The Emma Goldman Project (2007), created for Radical Encuentro, Luna Tart Died (2008, co-written with Laura Freeman), The 999 Eyes Freak Show (2008 touring season), Spit (Frontera Fest Short Fringe Wild Card Selection, 2010), and short and full-length productions of Trey Deason's Cardigan, (Frontera Fest Short Fringe Best of Week 2010, Long Fringe 2011). Additional acting credits include Food/No Food ([humdrum collective], 2007), Fernando and the Killer Queen (2009) and Re: Psyche (2010).