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Fernando Calzadilla Fernando Calzadilla is a visual artist, theater designer, dramaturg, and performance scholar. A native Venezuelan, Fernando has been awarded 14 times best set, costumes, or lighting designer for his work. He has performed and exhibited in Caracas, New York, and Miami art galleries. His work has received support from Knight Foundation, The Shubert Foundation, and National Endowment for the Arts. He was among the ten finalists for the Ellen Stewart International Award (2016). Fernando is a Fulbright Specialist 2017-2020 in theater and was Guest Artist at Directors Lab West 2017. Between 2007-2017, he was Resident Artist for Miami Theater Center where he co-authored three original plays and four adaptations. He designed sets, lights, and costumes for all of them. All strands of his practice are centered around the human body, color, and light questioning gender and genre classifications as well as the separation between process and product. He has a BFA in Theater Design and a Ph.D. in Performance Studies both from New York University where he worked closely with Richard Schechner and Diana Taylor. Fernando is one of the six Rasaboxes licensed instructors.

Professional Experience

Calzadilla has designed more than a hundred theater productions. He co-authored three plays and co-adapted four with Miami Theater Center. Multiple Performance Art pieces and solo exhibits in Miami, Caracas, and New York. Major associations with Miami Theater Center, East Coast Artists, Taller Experimental de Teatro, Teatro Profesional de Venezuela, Compañia Nacional de Teatro, Teatro Teresa Carreño, and Rajatabla Teatro, in Caracas, New York, and Miami. From 2007-2017, he was Resident Artist at Miami Theater Center in Miami, FL, and one of six licensed rasaboxes instructors.

Honors and Awards

2008 MUNICIPAL AWARD – THEATER - Caracas, Best Set Design for Happy Days (Los Días Felices)

2007 MUNICIPAL AWARD – THEATER - Caracas, Best Costume Design for Salieri

2000 DOCTORAL SCHOLARSHIP - New York University, Performance Studies 1999 PAULETTE GODDARD SCHOLARSHIP - New York University, Performance Studies

1998 NATIONAL AWARD “CASA DEL ARTISTA” - Caracas, Best Set Design for Acto Cultural 1998 MUNICIPAL AWARD – THEATRE - Caracas, Best Director for Flor de Baile 1997 MUNICIPAL AWARD – THEATRE - Caracas, Best Set Design for Esperando a Godot 1996 MUNICIPAL AWARD – THEATRE - Caracas, Best Set Design for La Señorita Julia

1996 NATIONAL AWARD “CASA DEL ARTISTA” - Caracas, Best Set Design for Sonny, Diferencias Sobre el Otelo de William Shakespeare 1994 NATIONAL AWARD “CASA DEL ARTISTA” - Caracas, Best Set Design for El Pez que Fuma 1994 NATIONAL AWARD “CASA DEL ARTISTA” - Caracas, Best Lighting Design for La Casa de Bernarda Alba 1994 MUNICIPAL AWARD – THEATRE - Caracas, Best Set Design for Los Demonios 1994 MUNICIPAL AWARD – THEATRE - Caracas, Best Costume Design for Los Demonios 1990 FESTIVAL DEL SIGLO DE ORO ESPAÑOL - El Paso, Texas. Best Lighting Design for El Acero de Madrid 1980 MUNICIPAL AWARD – THEATRE - Caracas, Best Set Design for El Tartufo and Don Perlimplin

Publications

“Jacobo Borges: The Meaning of Presence,” Artlies, No. 28, Fall 2000 “Identity Case-d,” Women and Performance, Vol 12:2 #24 2002

“Performing the Political: Encapuchados in Venezuela” in TDR, Vol 46 No 3 T176 Winter 2003

“Artists in the Field: Between Art and Anthropology,” Fernando Calzadilla and George Marcus, in Border Crossings: Contemporary Artists and Anthropology, edited by Arnd Schneider, London and New York: Berg Publishers, 2005

“Welcome to the nineteenth century: Venezuelan elections” e-misferica, elHemisphericrnal of the Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics at http://hemisphericinstitute.org/journal October 2004 “YocastaS” Theatre Journal - Volume 55, Number 4, December 2003, pp. 710-713 - Review

“Los escritores, ¿nacen o se hacen?” Punto de Vista, TV Latina, Julio 2005, http://www.worldscreen.com/tvlatina.php

Exhibitions & Performance

"Identity Case-d," Performance presented at PSI6 (Performance Studies International conference), Ari-zona State University, March 2000 Taking up the Body, performance presented at Lims Mosaic 2004, Laban/Bartenieff Institute of Move-ment Studies, hosted by Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York, NY, October 2004

Open Secret y Skypanels, Urban Interventions presented at OMNIART I, The neighborhood as a work of art, in honor of Art Basel 2004, Miami, FL, December 2004 It’s the Cart, site-specific installation in OMNIART III, Miami, FL, December 2005

Auction 05, Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach, CA 2005

Identity Case-d, Signature Gallery, Miami, FL, June 2006

San Grador, Performance presented at Centerfold, Miami, FL, September 2006

Day of the Dead, Deluxe Arts, Miami, FL, November 2006

Royal Copenhagen, Performance presented at Kunst Motel during Art Basel, Miami, FL, December 2006

Re-claimed, Performance presented at the Venetian Pool in occasion of Art Basel, Coral Gables, FL, December 2006

R-evolve-R, Performance presented during the event Who’s yer Dada, at the Collins building in the Miami Design District, February 10, 2007

eARTh Anima, performance at Chelsea Galleria, music by Jan Sebon, Wynwood, Miami FL, November 2008

R-evolve-R, performance presented at the Espacio Plural, Trasnocho Cultural, Caracas, June 23, 2009

Light Spin, performance presented at Maor Gallery, Miami, FL, September 22, 2011

JULIE, performance Based on Fröken Julie by August Strindberg, performed by Fernando Calzadilla and Katie Wiegman, music by Gustavo Matamoros, Miami Theater Center, August 25, 2012

Am I Intangible? performance presented at Perez Art Museum Miami/Arts Connection in Miami Fl, Oc-tober 22, 2016

Duologue with a Painting, performance/exhibition presented as part of Inside the Box, SandBox Series, Miami Theater Center, Miami FL, April 28/29, 2017

Conferences and Seminars 2017 International Conference - Bodies in the Streets: Somaesthetics of City Life, Florida Atlantic University, Center for Body, Mind, and Culture, January 26–27 2017

2014 Theatre & Stratification FIRT-IFTR world congress, University of Warwick July 28th-1st August 2014 Scenography Working Group – “Relating Chekhov”

2002 "Migration, Culture, and Identity," Globalization, Migration, and the Public Sphere, Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics, Lima, Peru, paper presented and workgroup chair. 2001 "Performing Political Identity: Encapuchados in Venezuela," Memory, Atrocity, and Resistance, Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics, Monterrey, Mexico, paper presented and panel chair.

2000 "Identity Case-d," Paper delivered at the VI Performance Studies International conference, Arizona State University

1997 "De La Representación a La Participación," paper presented at the Espaço da Cena Latino Americana conference, SESC/Memorial da America Latina, Sao Paulo, Brazil

1997 "The Market From Here," art installation/experimental ethnography presented in Artists in Trance seminar at Rice University, Houston, Texas, organized by the Transart Foundation and Rice University Department of Anthropology.