Elisa Marina Alvarado

Artistic Director

408.294.6678, ElisaMarina@TeatroVision.org

Elisa Marina Alvarado is a founding member and Artistic Director of the 21 year-old Teatro Visión. As an actress, director and community organizer she has been active in the Chicano movement for over thirty years. Elisa has taught theater for Teatro Visión, San José State University, San Francisco State University and many community organizations. She developed a new works program, Codices , through which Teatro Visión has produced world premiers for plays including Conjunto by Oliver Mayer and Boxcar by Silvia Gonzalez S.. She established Teatro Visión’s educational program, the Instituto de Teatro, which offers comprehensive training in culture and community based theater for Latino communities. The training approach incorporates popular education ( Conocimiento ) and indigenous approaches to teaching / learning. Elisa is also a licensed clinical social worker, an Aztec dancer, and practitioner of indigenous Mexican health traditions. She founded the Ethnomedicine Project in San José, California, which offers training in traditional Mexican medicine. She is Purépecha Indian (México) and Cuban.

Jess Moreles

Executive Director

408.294.6685, Jess@TeatroVision.org

Jess Moreles joined the staff of Teatro Visión as Operations Manager in 2004, having previously served on its board of directors. He came to the company by way of a two-year national fellowship/mentorship award from Theatre Communications Group (TCG) courtesy of the Doris Duke Foundation. Jess saw this as an opportunity to use his 25 year management experience from the private sector to pursue his desire to make a difference in the nonprofit arts community. Jess has previously served on the City of San José’s Arts Commission. In addition to the TCG Fellowship, Jess has completed the San José State University/CompassPoint Nonprofit Services “Non-Profit Management Program”, the National Association of Latino Arts and Culture (NALAC) Leadership Institute and 1stACT Silicon Valley’s Multicultural Arts Leadership Institute (MALI).

His is a proud Chicano who was born and raised in the region he serves and calls home, San José, CA.

Dianne L. Vega

Production Manager

408.294.6621, Dianne@TeatroVision.org

Dianne L. Vega has been working with Teatro Visión since 1994 as the company’s full-time production manager. In addition to managing the production aspect of many shows over the years with Teatro, her stage management credits with the company here at Mexican Heritage Plaza include The Cook , Cantinflas! , The Kiss of the Spider Woman , La Posada Mágica , Harvest Moon , and numerous shows when the company performed in downtown San José before the move to Mexican Heritage in 1999. She has worked with various theater companies through out the Bay Area since 1989 and earned her B.A. in Social Work from San José State University.

Charles Eurydice Gray

Fund Development Director

408.294.6621

Is a writer and twenty-year theatre professional educated at Grove City and Middlebury Colleges. Her work has led her west over the years, beginning in Pennsylvania at the Pittsburgh Public Theatre, moving to Illinois and the University of Chicago’s Court Theatre, then on to California and the San Jose Repertory Theatre and Teatro Visión. Having worked previously as a freelance development writer at Teatro, Gray considers her new position as Director of Fund Development at Teatro a coming home of sorts, both to the city she loves and to the theater Company of old friends and kindred ideals.

Carolina Greenwalt

Business Manager

408.294.6621, Carolina@TeatroVision.org

Carolina Greenwalt’s job responsibilities include budget management, grants administration, human resources, audit administration, vendor management, accounts payable/receivables, database management, admin support to the Board President and Executive Director. Carolina has a Masters in Spanish Literature and a BA in Business Administration.