Alvaro Saar Rios

Alvaro Saar Rios is a Texican playwright and educator living in Chicago. His plays have been performed in New York City, Mexico City, Hawaii, Chicago, Seattle, St. Louis, Milwaukee and all over Texas. He has received playwriting commissions from various organizations, including the Chicago Children’s Theatre, First Stage, Houston Grand Opera, DePaul University, Honolulu Theatre for Youth, Alley Theatre, Purple Rose Theatre Company, Lexington Children’s Theatre, Houston Community College and the Zoological Society of Milwaukee. His award-winning plays include Luchadora!, On The Wings of a Mariposa and a stage adaptation of the New York Times bestseller Carmela Full of Wishes. Other plays include Piggsville, In Darkness, Audio Flowers Bloom and Quetzali & The Comic Book Queen vs. The Alebrije of Darkness: Live in the school cafeteria. He is currently developing new works for Colorado’s Creede Repertory Theatre and Chicago’s DePaul University. Alvaro is Playwright-In-Residence at Milwaukee’s First Stage and a former Resident Playwright at Chicago Dramatists. He is also a proud veteran of the US Army. Mr. Rios holds an MFA in Writing for the Stage and Screen from Northwestern University. He is an Associate Professor of Playwriting at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. alvarosaarrios.com