Adrian Centeno (he/him) is a dramaturg and arts educator based in Los Angeles. He’s helped develop and support new works at South Coast Repertory, San Diego Repertory Theatre, Cleveland Play House, Yale Indigenous Performing Arts Program, Seven Devils Playwrights Conference, Ojai Playwrights Conference, New York Stage & Film, Teatro Bravo, Childsplay Theatre Company, foolsFURY Theater Company, and Playwrights’ Arena, among others.
A fierce advocate for new plays, Adrian has proudly served by invitation on new play development grant panels and festival selection committees for the National Endowment for the Arts, Page 73, Signature Theatre, The Public Theatre, The Playwrights’ Center, Athena Project, and the Latinx New Play Festival. He’s also a proud affiliate dramaturg with Beehive Dramaturgy Studio in New York City.
He holds a master’s degree from UC Santa Cruz and was recently honored with the Distinguished Alumni Award. He is currently a lecturer in the Department of Theatre Arts at Cal State Long Beach, the literary manager at Boston Court Pasadena, and the artistic director of Seven Devils New Play Foundry.
UPCOMING PROJECTS
APRIL - The Body’s Midnight by Tira Palmquist (dir. Jessica Kubzansky) at Boston Court Pasadena.
JUNE - 2024 Seven Devils Playwrights Conference.
SEPTEMBER - A Going Away Party Play by Keyanna Khatiblou (dir. James Fowler) at Boston Court Pasadena.
ARTISTIC STATEMENT
An evolving list of things that guide my artistic and educational practice:
an attention to the text, and a commitment to questions that explore its many threads.
greeting the work with curiosity, gentleness, and grace, of which we’re all deserving.
a refusal to take myself seriously; humor as a tool, a weapon, a salve.
listening, genuinely, without judgment (when possible), and a desire to understand.
collaboration, communication, and care as guiding principles.
an interest in the strange, uneven; a resolve to never make beautiful things “perfect.”