Eddie Torres
BIO
As a performer, he most recently appeared in Bruce Norris’s Downstate at Playwrights Horizons (nominated for Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Featured Performer), as well in the productions at the National Theatre in London and at Steppenwolf Theatre Company in Chicago.
In addition to being a director, he has directed at The Old Globe, productions of El Borracho, Familiar, Native Gardens, & Water by the Spoonful. He is one of the Old Globe Classical Directing Fellows (2021). He also directed the podcast of Macbeth for NEXT Chapter Podcasts and the Play On Shakespeare. He directed the world premiere of Kristoffer Diaz’s The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity (Victory Gardens Theater/Teatro Vista), which was named Best Play of 2009 by the Chicago Tribune and garnered five Joseph Jefferson Awards including “Best Production – Play” and “Best Director – Play.”
He has also directed at several regional theatres including Geffen Playhouse, Second Stage Theatre, Goodman Theatre, The Public Theater, Repertorio Español, and more. His other awards included Latin ACE Award for Best Musical and the Artistas de Teatro Independiente Award for Best Director. He was an Assistant Professor of Practice in Theater at Wesleyan University, and he is currently an Associate Professor at University of Illinois Chicago and is Co-founder and Artistic Director Emeritus at Teatro Vista.