Jacob Padrón

Jacob Padrón is a Mexican-American artistic director. He has founded several theater companies with the intent to promote and bring visibility to latino/a artists and theatre.
Early life
Jacob Padrón was raised in Gilroy, California. During his youth he attended a production of "La Virgen del Tepeyac" put on by El Teatro Campesino. He soon joined the company and was a member through his teenage years. After graduating college Padrón volunteered with the Jesuit Volunteer Corps, providing support for those living with HIV/AIDS.
Education
Padrón attended Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles. He studied theater and communications.
Career
After volunteering with the Jesuit Volunteer Corps in Raleigh, N.C., Padrón moved to Baltimore where he worked as an intern for Center Stage. Rauch was so impressed with Padrón that he kept the position open for a year until Padrón had graduated from Yale.
He was also the producer for "365 Days/365 Plays" by Suzan-Lori Parks, put on by Center Theatre Group in Los Angeles.
Tilted Field Productions
Padrón co-founded Tilted Field Productions in 2010 with Becca Wolff. LA Weekly named the production company the Best Avant-Garde Rock Musical Theatre Company in 2013.
The Sol Project
Padrón is the founder and artistic director of The Sol Project, a national theater initiative intended to amplify Latinx voices and push Latinx playwrights into mainstream American theatre culture. The project aims to pair latino/a playwrights with leading Off-Broadway theater companies who commit to producing the work of these writers. The project has resulted in the production of Oedipus El Rey, a play by Luis Alfaro, among others.
Long Wharf Theatre
As of November 2018 Padrón is the artistic director of Long Wharf Theatre. Padrón has said that a focus of his at Long Wharf is to create "a more inclusive American theater" and that he would like to have collaborations between Long Wharf and the Sol Project if possible.

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