Alejandro Benítez (Mexico City) is an actor, a puppeteer and a drummer. He studied Drama & Literature at the Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). 
He has worked as an actor and a musician in more than 15 plays such as La lucha con el Ángel, Sueño de una noche de verano (A mid-summer night’s dream) The Repugnant Story of Clotario Demoniax, Troka el poderoso (Mighty Troka), and El tablero de las pasiones de juguete. As a puppeteer he has worked in theater, television (Plaza Sésamo, the latin american version of Sesame Street) and Internet Television. He has worked as a producer & announcer in Internet radio. He was a member of the theater group Bochinche from 1992 to 1999. He is part of Teatro Tinglado since 1995. He has performed in several puppet festivals and very important venues in the US, Canada and Mexico, such as the III International Festival of Puppet Theatre of The Jim Henson Foundation, New York; The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York City; Hopkins Center Festival of International Puppetry, Darthmouth College, New Hampshire; UCLA Center for the Performing Arts, Santa Monica, California; The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota; P.S. 122, Performance Space 122,Manhattan, NY City; Centennial Hall at the University of Arizona; Wright Theater at The Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vermont; XV Festival Internacional del Museo Nacional del Títere, Huamantla, Tlaxcala, Mex. La semaine Mondiale de la Marionnette, Jonquière, Quebec, Canada; Puppeteers of America N.W. Regional Festival, Portland, Oregon; Diverse Works Art Space, Houston, Texas; XXXI and XXXIII Festival Internacional Cervantino, Guanajuato, México; 47 Annual Conference of the APAP (Assosiation of Performing Arts Presenters); World Puppet Weekend, Portland Yacht Services, Portland, Maine; Great Small Works 7th International Toy Theater Festival. St. Ann’s Warehouse. Brooklyn, NY; Dramafest 06, Mexico City. VIII Festival Internacional Música y Escena, Mexico City; Martin E. Segal Theater Center at The City University of New York, CUNY; Puppeteers of America's Puppet Rampage 2007, St. Paul MN and The Portland Center for the Performing Arts.
He is currently working in the bi national project Dos Pueblos/Two Towns in collaboration with the US companies Hand2Mouth Theater and Milagro Teatro from Portland, OR. This project has the kindly support of the MAPFund of The Rockefeller Foundation and will be premiere in September 2008.
He is also working in a new Toy Theater project, Panteón de Fiesta (Fiesta Graveyard) with his own theater company FACTO TEATRO. This is a production of The Music Center of The Performing Arts Center of Los Angeles County, with the kind support of The Jim Henson Foundation and will be premiered at The International Festival of Toy Theater in June 2008.
He has worked as an actor and a musician in more than 15 plays such as La lucha con el Ángel, Sueño de una noche de verano (A mid-summer night’s dream) The Repugnant Story of Clotario Demoniax, Troka el poderoso (Mighty Troka), and El tablero de las pasiones de juguete. As a puppeteer he has worked in theater, television (Plaza Sésamo, the latin american version of Sesame Street) and Internet Television. He has worked as a producer & announcer in Internet radio. He was a member of the theater group Bochinche from 1992 to 1999. He is part of Teatro Tinglado since 1995. He has performed in several puppet festivals and very important venues in the US, Canada and Mexico, such as the III International Festival of Puppet Theatre of The Jim Henson Foundation, New York; The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York City; Hopkins Center Festival of International Puppetry, Darthmouth College, New Hampshire; UCLA Center for the Performing Arts, Santa Monica, California; The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota; P.S. 122, Performance Space 122,Manhattan, NY City; Centennial Hall at the University of Arizona; Wright Theater at The Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vermont; XV Festival Internacional del Museo Nacional del Títere, Huamantla, Tlaxcala, Mex. La semaine Mondiale de la Marionnette, Jonquière, Quebec, Canada; Puppeteers of America N.W. Regional Festival, Portland, Oregon; Diverse Works Art Space, Houston, Texas; XXXI and XXXIII Festival Internacional Cervantino, Guanajuato, México; 47 Annual Conference of the APAP (Assosiation of Performing Arts Presenters); World Puppet Weekend, Portland Yacht Services, Portland, Maine; Great Small Works 7th International Toy Theater Festival. St. Ann’s Warehouse. Brooklyn, NY; Dramafest 06, Mexico City. VIII Festival Internacional Música y Escena, Mexico City; Martin E. Segal Theater Center at The City University of New York, CUNY; Puppeteers of America's Puppet Rampage 2007, St. Paul MN and The Portland Center for the Performing Arts.He is currently working in the bi national project Dos Pueblos/Two Towns in collaboration with the US companies Hand2Mouth Theater and Milagro Teatro from Portland, OR. This project has the kindly support of the MAPFund of The Rockefeller Foundation and will be premiere in September 2008.
He is also working in a new Toy Theater project, Panteón de Fiesta (Fiesta Graveyard) with his own theater company FACTO TEATRO. This is a production of The Music Center of The Performing Arts Center of Los Angeles County, with the kind support of The Jim Henson Foundation and will be premiered at The International Festival of Toy Theater in June 2008.
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