Francisco Garcia

Actor, Playwright

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Francisco Garcia is happy to be returning to Artists Repertory Theatre where he has worked as an actor appearing in Tennesse Willliam’s Night of the Iguana and the recent workshop reading of the E.M. Lewis’ The Great Divide for ART’s Mercury Company. As an actor, he has worked regionally for such theaters as the Mark Taper Forum, Bilingual Foundation of the Arts, Shakespeare Center of Los Angeles, Los Angeles Theatre Center, The Ford Amphitheater, Theatre @ Boston Court and Cornerstone Theatre Company. Favorite roles include Romeo in Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare Center of Los Angeles), Bottom in A Midsummer Night’s Dream (East LA Repertory) and Tino in Tino Does Time (Milagro Theatre). His recent acting credits in Portland include NBC’s Grimm, IFC’s Portlandia, A24 Film’s Lean on Pete, and JAW: Playwrights Festival for Portland Center Stage. This past winter of 2020, Francisco was commissioned to write 545 for Portland Playhouse’s Wonderland Festival of New Work. In 2015 he wrote Odessa, an adaptation of The Odyssey for Profile Theatre’s Educational Outreach Program and in 2013, he served as a guest playwright for CalArts’ CAP program, where his adaptation of Fuente Ovejuna was performed at REDCAT Theatre in Los Angeles. Francisco also works as a director and his recent credits include the world premieres of Emilio Rodriguez’s Swimming While Drowning and Olga Sanchez’s Broken Promises for Milagro Theatre, Andrew Sianez-De La O’s Ofelio for MediaRites/Theatre Diaspora, Joan Cushing’s Diary of a Worm, a Spider, and a Fly and Jose Cruz Gonzalez’s Tomás & the Library Lady for Oregon Children’s Theatre, and Naomi Iizuka’s Anon(ymous) for Lewis & Clark College, where he also worked as an adjunct professor. Francisco received his Master’s degree from California State University, Los Angeles and also studied with the Moscow Art Theater School. He is a proud member of AEA and SAG-AFTRA.