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Roy Conboy is a Chicano playwright, director, and teacher, and is the head of the Playwrighting Program at SFSU, teaching in both Theatre Arts and Creative Writing. His children’s play Hot Tamale/Tamale Caliente just finished an extended tour of Central California schools in an outreach production mounted by PCPA Theaterfest. Other recent plays include The Journeys of the Angels, Tailor From Chihuahua, and his solo show Drive My Coche, all of which were originally produced by Teatro Esperanza in San Francisco. His older plays When El Cucui Walks, and Dancing With the Missing have also been produced extensively.
His plays have been produced by such theatres as El Teatro de la Esperanza, Teatro Vision of San Jose, East Los Angeles Repertory, Teatro Latino in Minneapolis, Teatro del Pueblo in St. Paul, The Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center in San Antonio, Teatro Milagro in Portland, Cucucuevez in Santa Ana, and PCPA Theaterfest in Santa Maria. His work has also been produced at Cypress College, Mesa College, Chabot College, Los Medanos College, Santa Ana College, and San Francisco State University. Workshops and staged readings of his plays have been seen at the Denver Center, the Mark Taper Forum, the Seattle Group Theatre, the Bay Area Playwrights Festival, ASK Plays, South Coast Repertory, Latin American Theatre Artists, and Festival Latino of San Francisco.
As an educator he has helped raise the SFSU Graduate Playwrighting Program to national prominence. He has created numerous opportunities for student writers, including GreenHouse, an educational/professional partnership producing off-campus workshops of graduate student plays; and the One-Act Festival, One-Act Fringe, and Fringe Phase Two which annually produce multiple plays by student writers. Students from the playwrighting program have gone on to numerous honors and productions in the Bay Area and beyond, including national and international awards. His former playwriting students include, among many others: Marcus Gardley, Peter Nachtrieb, Lale Shafagi, Karen Macklin, Greg Beuthin, Alex Park, Brian Thorstenson, Prince Gomolvilas, Garret Groenveld, Elizabeth Gjelten, and Claire Rice.
In addition, Roy is a founding member of the multicultural ensemble Cucucuevez; has served as Instructor and Director of the New Plays and Players Workshop at Santa Ana College; and as the General Manager and Casting Director of the Grove Shakespeare Festival in Garden Grove.
