Theatre Arts assistant professor Tlaloc Rivas wins Gielgud Fellowship

Wednesday, October 8, 2014

Tlaloc Rivas

University of Iowa Assistant Professor Tlaloc Rivas is the 2014 recipient of the Sir John Gielgud Fellowship in Classical Directing from the Stage Directors and Choreographers Foundation. The fellowship, originated in 1996, provides opportunities for early- and mid-career directors to study the artistic processes of master directors of classical plays.

Rivas teaches in the Department of Theatre Arts in the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences. He is an assistant professor of directing, along with related subjects. He is primarily interested in developing new plays that engage in a cross-cultural dialogue, and reinventing the classics for the contemporary stage.

The Gielgud Fellowship will send Rivas to the Court Theatre in Chicago, where he will work with director Charles Newell on his production of Iphigenia in Aulis by Euripides, which will open in November 2015. 

The University of Iowa College of Liberal Arts and Sciences offers about 70 majors across the humanities; fine, performing and literary arts; natural and mathematical sciences; social and behavioral sciences; and communication disciplines. About 15,000 undergraduate and nearly 2,000 graduate students study each year in the college’s 37 departments, led by faculty at the forefront of teaching and research in their disciplines. The college teaches all Iowa undergraduates through the college's general education program, CLAS CORE. About 80 percent of all Iowa undergraduates begin their academic journey in CLAS. The college confers about 60 percent of the university's bachelor's degrees each academic year.