Meet the Co-Creators of Dance for a Dollar

Daniel Jáquez: THE CO-CREATOR, DIRECTOR AND CHOREOGRAPHER

Daniel Jáquez, co-creator, director and choreographer, (www.danieljaquez.com) a member of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society, is a NY based freelance director, an Associate Artist at Miracle Theatre in Portland, Oregon and Teatro V!da in Springfield, MA as well as an Advisory Board member for The Lark's US/Mexico Word Exchange. From 2003 to 2006 he was Director-Producer of INTAR Theatre’s NewWorks Lab and he is the co-founder of Calpulli Mexican Dance Theatre in Queens, NY and from 2003 to 2011 was its Artistic Director and choreographer. He has directed and produced shows Off and Off-Off Broadway at Queens Theatre in the Park, The Town Hall, INTAR Theatre, Vital, The Immediate, The Kirk, The Lion, HERE, Ensemble Studio Theatre, 78 Street Theatre and at renowned concert venues such as Symphony Space and Carnegie Hall. Regionally, he has directed across the United States at South Coast Rep, The Intiman, The McCarter, Artists Repertory Theatre, American Repertory Theatre Institute, and others, and has also worked in Russia, Switzerland, France and Mexico. Jáquez has served as panelist and/or committee member for the NEA, TCG, New Dramatists, NYSCA, CUNY, etc. His teaching experience includes: Adjunct Professor at Manhattanville College, Teaching Fellow at Harvard University, Guest Artists/Teacher at Columbia University and Sarah Lawrence College and many community workshops in dance and theatre.

In 2000 he earned an MFA in Directing from the American Repertory Theater/Moscow Art Theater Institute at Harvard University. Daniel studied acting, directing and dramaturgy at Circle Rep, Circle in the Square and the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. He also attended the Saratoga International Theater Institute for The Viewpoints and Suzuki training in New York City. He is a member of the Lincoln Center Theater Director’s Lab and of NoPassport, a pan-American theatre coalition. Daniel grew up in Cd. Juárez, Mexico and studied Actuarial Science at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, received a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics from the University of Texas and was a member of the Society of Actuaries.

Mariana Carreño King: THE CO-REATOR AND WRITER

Mariana Carreño King, co-creator and writer, is a freelance writer, translator, director and actor. Her plays include Ofelia’s Lovers, developed as part of a 2-year residency at Mabou Mines;Darkroom written as member of the Hispanic The Wake, produced at INTAR's NewWorks Lab; Fool’s Journey, a finalist of the O’Neill Playwrights Conference; Two Minutes in the Lobby, Waiting for the Post Office to Give Birth to Time andDessert Stories which received stage readings at LAByrinth Summer Intensive Retreats and at the Puerto Rican Traveling Theatre; Pitahayas, a finalist for the 2003 Actors Theatre of Louisville’s Heideman Award. Night of the Cat-Sitter, Clowns, Static and Mexico 68 have been presented or workshopped at The Public, The Milagro, Theatre @ Saint Clement’s and with LAByrinth Theatre Company. Mariana’s directing credits include a bilingual production of Eduardo Machado’s The Cook for Stages Repertory Theatre in Houston, TX, workshop productions of Space Oddity at Aaron Davis Hall, Dinner with Jobita and la Chacha at INTAR and Pilgrim at the Puerto Rican Traveling Theatre, all written by Henry Guzmán.
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Her column, En español, por favor, was published from 2004 to 2006 in the VNU’s magazine Marketing y Medios, and it was a finalist for the 2006 American Business Media’s Neal Award. She has also written for National Geographic Traveler Mexico, Marie Claire en español, Colombia’s El Tiempo, offoffoff.com and Portada magazine.

Mariana is a member of LAByrinth Theatre Company.