Rafael Gallegos directs opera, theatre, and film/video. Opera and music theatre work includes Handel’s Semele, Matt Marks’s The Little Death: Vol. 1 (Incubator Arts Project/Ontological Theatre) and The Adventures of Albert Fish (Galapagos Artspace), 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). Rafael has created devised theatre as Conspiracy Laboratory, aka ConLab, for whom he directed the original works It’s in the Game, a series of sports theatricals, Songs Our Mothers Taught Us, Going, Going, Gone!, and Beckett, Math and a Bath. From 2008-2010, Rafael was the Artistic Leadership Fellow at New York Theatre Workshop, apprenticing under Artistic Director James Nicola. As an assistant director, Rafael has worked with Ivo van Hove, John Jesurun, and Moisés Kaufman. Rafael is a winner of the Robert L.B. Tobin Director-Designer Showcase of OPERA America for his concept of Philip Glass’s Hydrogen Jukebox. He is a Drama League Directing Fellow, member of the Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab and Lincoln Center Directors Lab, an NYTW Directing Fellow and current Usual Suspect. As an administrator and producer, Rafael has served as a theatre curator for The Tank, was the studio registrar for the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, served on panels with the NYC DCA, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council and Brooklyn Arts Council, and participated in the TCG Arts Leadership Bootcamp. His newly launched project is Nueva Bohemia, a place for artistic experimentation, recently seen at The Bushwick Starr’s Bushwhack Series. Training: University of New Mexico. @rafaelgallegos