Associate Professor Alvaro Saar Rios takes plays global

Alvaro Saar Rios (Associate Professor, Playwriting; Area Head, Theatre Practices) will see multiple productions of his scripts taking place this month. 

His play Alien Menudo was selected for the 6th annual “La Vida Es Cortos Festival” in Rios’ hometown of Houston, Texas. The 10-minute piece imagines a world where a grandmother attempts to make Mexican food that is out of this world. The festival takes place Oct. 4 – 6.  

The following week, two of Rios’ short plays will be read in Kaiserslautern and Baumholder, Germany as a part of a Hispanic Heritage celebration in Germany. This reading will include Alien Menudo and La Liorona’s Sidekick, which depicts destructive entities and a lucha libre wrestler competing to become sidekick to a legendary spirit. 

To read more about Rios’ work, check out his previous feature here on the PSOA faculty stories page