Elio Amador

Elio Amador

Assistant Stage Manager
Oakland Theater Project

  • Set stage before/after rehearsals and shows
  • Manage backstage needs, including props & costumes
  • Upkeep the rehearsal & performance space
  • Liaise with stage management, cast, and artistic team

Ensemble Member
Alternative Theater Ensemble

  • Collaborate with ATE staff in order to ensure programming and community partnerships serving marginalized communities can be sustained with resources on staff and obtained by outside resources.

Stage Manager
Crowded Fire Theater

  •  Facilitate rehearsals and communications with cast and crew
  • Complete and send rehearsal reports and daily calls
  • Run lights and sound for the reading Assistant Stage Manager Crowded Fire Theater
  • Set stage before/after rehearsals and shows
  • Manage backstage needs, including props, fly systems, entrances
  • Contribute to rehearsal notes and needs as they arise
  • Liaise with stage management, cast, and artistic team.

    Directing Apprentice
    Playground SF

    • Observe and study under Playground SF directors and direct for Monday Night Playground in March.

    House Manager
    Theatre Rhinoceros

    • Set up the house before the show, check in audience members, sell walk up tickets, and close the house after the show.

    Community Listening Cohort Artist
    Alternative Theater Ensemble

    • Create and foster relationships between AlterTheater and Bay Area communities
      organizations, while collaborating with a cohort of artists.

    Teaching Artist
    Town Hall Theatre

    • Lead and assist theatre activities and rehearsals that accumulate into a children’s
      theatre.

    Literary Intern
    SF Shakespeare Company

    • Create a welcome guide for cast and crew, act as a dramaturgical voice, and help make
      cuts to the script.

    Directing

    Title Series / Program Venue / Theatre
    The River Bride Chanticleers Theatre
    “Knock Knock” Dreams & Nightmares Playground SF
    “Corazón y Alma” Reclaiming Herstory Playground SF
    Nessie and the Terrible Troll Town Hall Theatre
    “Fables in the Forest” Town Hall Theatre
    “Tender Wish” Magic Drunk Love The Empty Space
    A Memory of Two Mondays (selection) Theatre Showcase UC Irvine
    The Hungry Woman (selection) Theatre Showcase CSU Bakersfield

    Co-Directing

    Title Venue / Theatre
    The Laramie Project Theatre Rhinoceros

    Assistant Directing

    Title Venue / Theatre
    Swamped Town Hall Theatre
    Annie Jr Town Hall Theatre

    Playwriting

    Title Festival / Company Venue / Theatre
    “Under the Orange Moon” Fresh Baked Pears The Pear Theatre
    “Tender Wish” Magic Drunk Love The Empty Space
    “Loving Fae” The Zoom Where It Happens The Empty Space

    Actor

    Theatre

    Production Role Theatre Company / Venue Director
    The Last of the Love Letters Person (U/S) Crowded Fire Theater Nailah Harper-Malveaux
    Arsenic and Old Lace Officer Brophy Center Rep Co. Matt Morrow
    All’s Well That Ends Well Clown Theatre Rhinoceros John Fisher
    Much Ado About Nothing Margaret/Verges (U/S) SF Shakes Shannon R. Davis
    “Jewish Boys: The Musical” Boy 2 & 4 Play Cafe Marianna Wolff
    “Legend of the Werewolf” Keggerman Play Cafe Ciera Eis
    Henry IV Pt. 1 (Staged Reading) Peto/Sir Richard Vernon SF Shakes Rebecca J. Ennals
    She Kills Monsters Narrator/Vera Empty Space Theatre Kayleigh Peaker
    Lorca in a Green Dress* Flamenco Dancer CSUB Tania Bandes B. Weingarden
    “Prince Princess” Charlie Empty Space Theatre Kara McDonald

    Theatre for Young Audiences

    Production Role Theatre Company / Venue Director
    Wylding Woods Story Ranger Woander Matthew Purdon
    The Emperor’s New Posts Sam NCTC YouthAware Stephanie Temple
    The Water Play* Chorus Member CSUB (TYA Tour) Kamala Boeck
    Aladdin* Mother CSUB (TYA Tour) Kamala Boeck

    *Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival Irene Ryan Nominee

    Education

    • American Conservatory Theater
      San Francisco Semester (Acting)
    • California State University, Bakersfield
      B.A. in Theatre Arts, minor in Sociology
    • University of California, Irvine
      Theatre Coursework