OFFICIAL BIO…
Alejandra Maria Rivas (Alé/they/elle) is an Indigenous-Chicane-Mexican theater artist, administrator, and DEIB consultant based in Huichin, Ohlone Land.
Alejandra has worked at various organizations around the Bay Area including American Conservatory Theater, Shotgun Players, Marin Shakespeare Company, San Francisco Shakespeare Festival, Z Space, Berkeley Rep, Cal Shakes, Crowded Fire, City Street Artists, TheatreFIRST, Town Hall Theater, Central Works, and the Bay Area Women’s Theater Festival. Favorite theatre credits include: Romeo + Juliet (Juliet), Two Gentlemen of Verona (Lance/Speed), amémonos (Kari); Limāo y Sal (Alex); Cabaret (Kit Kat Klub/Fight Captain); Inked Baby (Asst. Director); In the Heights (Abuela Claudia). Alejandra has also had their play, La Paloma produced on multiple occasions, both as a staged reading and full production. They dedicate this play to their ancestors.
Alejandra has also worked as an MFA program administrator and an education and community programs administrator, and has been a teaching artist at various organizations. They are currently the Make a Difference Program Coordinator at Shotgun Players, supporting their MAD Fellowships and MAD Nights, encouraging emerging artists and young audiences to engage with the arts. Additionally, they have experience as a production manager, stage manager, and electrician. Alejandra has done most everything when it comes to running theater performance spaces.
Alejandra has served as a DEIB program manager and consultant with a focus on anti-racism, accessibility, strategic planning, and equity-first culture - working with The Iris Lab at UC Santa Cruz and A.C.T. They have been a guest lecturer on DEIB at universities, a scholarship panel member for theater programs, and was a guest speaker at the Pride Youth Alliance Conference in 2020. Alejandra was also named as a part of Center Theater Group’s Emerging Artists Cohort in 2021. Most recently in 2024, Alejandra served as a social justice consultant on research related to TTRPGs and empathy building.
Alejandra loves project management admin tasks, QTBIPOC-centered art, and getting philosophical. In their free time, Alé loves eating, reading, video games, Dungeons & Dragons, karaoke, protesting, being a hype-man, and being with time as it moves along.
STATEMENT ON whomst?
Alejandra Maria Rivas for long. Ale for short. *
From LA baby. Oakland based now. Cali through and through.
NB. Latine. Mexicane. Americane. Chicane.
INFJ. Capricorn sun. Leo rising. Cancer moon.
I am drawn to theatre that is representative of the world around me. I believe in silly and disruptive and magical storytelling. I love theatre that is uncomfortable AND theatre that celebrates joy. I want to pursue art that has a way of connecting deep within the human soul; that really makes you think about how you interact with the world, how the world interacts with you, and how you interact with yourself
Belonging. Celebration.
I think of theatre as another way to reflect on ourselves and society. If something makes us uncomfortable, why does it make us uncomfortable? How do we sit with our discomfort? Or do we? When do we need discomfort and when do we need joy? How can both coexist? I seek to create theatre that makes us ask questions.
*pronounced Ah-leh or Álé