Ricardo Lopez Muñoz

Ricardo Lopez Muñoz is the artistic director of Compagnie La Position du Guetteur in Vitry-sur-Seine, France. He has worked with Jean-Claude Penchenat, Luis Pascual, François Rancillac, Claude Buchewald, Georges Banu and Michelle Kokosowski, among others. He has directed some 20 productions in France, and a number of contemporary writing projects in Spain. As a director, he is interested in the interpenetration of disciplines and languages.

Ricardo is also actively involved in developing professional training programs for artists and social workers. Since 2008, he has favoured a form of theatre that brings together artists and audiences with limited access to cultural and artistic practices. His creative process emphasizes a direct link with the audience as well as the polyphonic aspects of narratives connected to their local environment, thereby transforming the writing, aesthetic and process into shared experiences.

Recently, he has expanded this notion of making theatre together to address issues of identity, community and territory. Since 2010, he has been working in Guyana to develop a repertoire in collaboration with local residents. His plays have toured in Guyana and mainland France (Tchip, 2014, Vivre Vite Hériter/Mériter, 2016). A third play, Babel Guyane, will premiere in fall 2017. From 2014 to 2017, he directed two projects in Santiago, Chile: the first, Gran Cosecha, involved 10 artists and 50 local residents and premiered in 2016; the second, El ladrillo, el otro modelo, was developed in collaboration with the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile in Santiago.

Here in Canada, he is currently working on two projects: in Winnipeg, Manitoba, D’une rive à l’autre, Les Allogènes, to be premiered by Théâtre Cercle Molière in March 2018; and in Abitibi-Témiscamingue, Quebec, Inventaires à vif, to be premièred by Théâtre du Tandem in June 2018, featuring artists and local residents. At Zones Théâtrales 2017, Ricardo is participating in the collective writing project behind the reading of Les Allogènes.