Tlaloc Rivas is a director, writer, dramaturg, and activist. He is a co-founder of the Latinx Theatre Commons, a Usual Suspect with New York Theatre Workshop, a member of the Dramatists Guild, and an associate member of Stage Directors & Choreographers. He is the recipient of a Creation Fund Award from National Performance Network for Anthem to Aztlán, a new work to premiere at Cara Mia Theatre (Dallas), Borderlands Theatre (Tucson), and Su Teatro (Denver) in 2017-18.

Playwriting Johanna: Facing Forward (Cleveland Public Theatre, University of Kansas); Byzantine (Theatre Nuevo, St. Louis).

Directing NYC: Five Kinds of Silence (Boundless Theatre); Summer and Smoke (Theatre Row); Generic Hispanic (Puerto Rican Traveling Theatre); undone (INTAR); Jackie and Lily (52nd Street Project); The Dumb Waiter (Ward 10).

Regional: Abigail/1702 (Merrimack Rep, Boston); Peribañez (Quantum Theatre, Pittsburgh) [co-directed with Megan Monaghan Rivas]; Johanna: Facing Forward (Cleveland Public); Wit [2016 Suzi Bass Nomination for Outstanding Production] and Mariela in the Desert (Aurora Theatre, Atlanta); In Love and Warcraft (Halcyon Theatre, Chicago) … amongst others.