Rafael Gallegos directs opera and theatre director and is currently based in Bushwick, Brooklyn. Opera and music theatre work includes Matt Marks’ The Little Death: Vol. 1 (Incubator Arts Project/Ontological Theatre) and The Adventures of Albert Fish (Galapagos), Igor Stravinsky’s L’Histoire du Soldat with The Deviant Septet, Oracle Hysterical’s hip-hop adaptation of Stravinsky’s Rake’s Progress called The Rake (Le Poisson Rouge), The Coterie (Joe’s Pub), and Alarm Will Sound’s 1969 (assistant/tour director). Theatre credits include Václav Havel’s Audience, Christopher Loar’s Clone, Sarah Kane’s 4.48 Psychosis and Adam Rapp’s Nocturne. Rafael creates devised theatre as Conspiracy Laboratory, aka ConLab, an interdisciplinary arts team currently researching the intersection of sports and performance. For ConLab he created the original works It’s in the Game, a series of sports theatricals, Songs Our Mothers Taught Us, Soldierz Tale: Agent Zero and Going, Going, Gone! As an assistant, Rafael has worked with Ivo van Hove, John Jesurun and Moisés Kaufman. From 2008-2010, Rafael was the Artistic Leadership Fellow at New York Theatre Workshop, apprenticing under Artistic Director James Nicola. Rafael is a Resident Director for the contemporary opera company The Coterie and currently serves as Theatre Curator for The Tank where he directs the Fresh Out the Box series of new experimental theatre. Along with designers Brett J. Banakis and Sydney Maresca, Rafael is a winner of the Robert L.B. Tobin Director-Designer Showcase of OPERA America for their production concept of Philip Glass’s Hydrogen Jukebox. Drama League Directing Fellow, Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab, Lincoln Center Directors Lab, NYTW Directing Fellow and Usual Suspect, University of New Mexico.