Jaime Castañeda will direct ATC's upcoming production of Welcome to Arroyo's. Other ATC credits include Assistant Director on True West and Topdog/ Underdog. Jaime is a TCG New Generations Future Leaders Award Recipient, through which he is the Artistic Leadership Associate at Atlantic Theater Company in New York City. Credits with Atlantic Theater Company include Assistant Director for Speed the Plow (also on Broadway at the Barrymore Theatre), Anon, Almost an Evening, and Parlour Song.
Regional directing credits: One for the Road (DirectorFest); Crave, Closer, Momentahn, Blue/Orange, Nocturne, Sonnets for an Old Century (FireStarter Productions); Red Light Winter (Perseverance Theatre); Attack of the Asians (workshop at The Kennedy Center); This is How it Goes, Credeaux Canvas, Just Because You’re Paranoid Doesn’t Mean They’re Not Out to Get You (Amphibian Stage Productions); Lincolnesque, Chesapeake, A Very Merry Unauthorized Children’s Scientology Pageant (Circle Theatre). Assistant director: Pig Farm (Old Globe Theatre); Going Gone (Cincinnati Playhouse); Two Unrelated Plays (Center Theatre Group).
Jaime has received various Dallas/Fort Worth Critics Forum awards, a Live Theatre League award, a Drama League fall fellowship, and a 2008 Princess Grace Award. Jaime is the Producing Artistic Director of FireStarter Productions. Education: MFA, Directing (University of Texas at Austin).
Daniel Bryant and Anthony Irons in a scene from Season 24's Topdog/Underdog,directed by
Derrick Sanders and Assistant Directed by
Jaime Castañeda.
