Louis D. Moreno Appointed Artistic Director of INTAR

INTAR (Eduardo Machado, Artistic Director/John McCormack, Executive Director) today announced the appointment of Louis D. Moreno as their new Artistic Director effective immediately.

INTAR Board Chair Evangeline Morphos stated, "As INTAR moves into its 25th anniversary season, the Board of Directors is very happy to announce that Lou Moreno has been appointed as the new Artistic Director. Moreno brings a wealth of experience to the position, and has been an active member of the company for many years. He is an immensely talented artist and producer, and we look forward to INTAR's continued growth and success. We also want to thank Eduardo Machado for his inspired leadership over the past six years, and we look forward to his continued involvement as a playwright and director."

Eduardo Machado has been INTAR's Artistic Director since 2004. He is Story Editor for the HBO series "Hung," as well as Head of Playwriting in the Goldberg Department of Dramatic Writing at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts. A new collection of his plays entitled Havana Is Waiting and Other Plays is due to be published by TCG in the fall. Eduardo is currently writing the new play Hamlet, Prince of Cuba for Asolo Repertory Theatre in Sarasota, FL. The play, which will receive its first workshop in September, follows a theatre company in Miami as it rehearses a production of Hamlet that has been set in Cuba during the fall of Batista.

Since arriving in New York in 1989, Louis D. Moreno has participated in over 40 productions, workshops and readings at INTAR. He has worked with many of the great names of INTAR, including Max Ferra, Eduardo Machado, Maria Irene Fornés, Michael John Garcés, Nilo Cruz, and Jose Rivera. In 2005 Louis was awarded a Princess Grace Fellowship for Directing and served for a year as the Associate Artistic Director of INTAR. After leaving INTAR, Moreno became the Associate Artistic Director of Rattlestick Playwrights Theater. At Rattlestick, he was the line producer for emerging playwrights such as Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, Lucy Thurber, Noah Haidel, Lars Noren, David Grimm and Adam Rapp. He also developed the Dirty Works Lab, an initiative for the development of new plays. In September of 2008, Louis became Co-Artistic Director of Twilight Theatre Company, a group dedicated to new plays and new voices. He produced Prelude to the First Day by Ted LoRusso in collaboration with Sturgis Warner and most recently the critically acclaimed Palestine, written and performed by Najla Saïd. Directing credits include Trying by Erin Browne (The Bushwick Starr); Minotaur a Romance and Beautiful both by David Anzuelo (LAByrinth Theatre Company at The Public Theater); 7th Inning Stretch (Mile Square Theatre); Fresh Play Festival (Manhattan Class Company); Kingdom (NYMF); End of the Line (MCC Youth Company); Rock/Paper/Scissors (New York Hip-Hop Theater Festival at The Public Theater); The Bigger Man (Partial Comfort Productions); and Blues for a Gray Sun by Nilaja Sun (INTAR). Lou is currently in development on Rikers Hot, a Princess Grace Foundation Special Project Grant. He also serves as an Associate Producer with The 24-Hour Company. For the past ten years he has taught playwriting for Manhattan Theatre Club at the RNDC Youth Facility on Rikers Island. "I am honored to return to INTAR as Artistic Director and continue the important work of nurturing new Latino plays and voices at every level of development at the theater I have always called home," Moreno said.

INTAR Will be announcing their entire season including The NewWorks Lab at a Kick-Off Event on September 13th in their Studio Space. Performances by Flaco Navaja along with the company of Speed the Musical by Andrea Thome will headline the event. For more information please call 212/695-6134.

INTAR, one of the United States' longest running Latino theatres producing in English, works to:

• Nurture the professional development of Latino theater artists.

• Produce bold, innovative, artistically significant plays that reflect diverse perspectives.

• Make accessible the diversity inherent in America's cultural heritage. Through an integrated program of workshops, productions of works in progress, and mainstage productions, INTAR continues to raise standards of the theater arts. INTAR brings to the public vital and energetic voices of both promising and accomplished Latino theater professionals, replacing stereotypes while giving expression to the diversity and depth of today's Latino-American community.

Visit INTAR on the web at www.intartheatre.org.