UTEP Technical and Performance Workshops

Gabriel Barrera

Gabriel is the Charge Scenic Artist at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. Gabriel began his career in visual arts. He came to love scenic art when first working at Knott’s Scary Farm as a scenic artist in the year 2000. Since his first interaction with scenic art he pursued various outlets that led him towards a career as a scenic artist. The caliber of his work has propelled him to work with nationally renowned Directors and Designers. Along with advancing the field of Scenic Painting, Gabriel, is leading initiatives to diversify and create inclusion within the production department at OSF and in the industry. His passion for true inclusion in production has lead him to realize that Equity, Diversity and Inclusion is his life’s work.

He is involved in outreach programing and workshops that target and expose underrepresented communities to a career in technical theatre. Gabriel believes in networking, collaboration and mentorship as a means to leadership and believes in empowering others through these core values. Gabriel operates and owns ScenicG which offers scenic painting workshops to the public as well as to educational organizations. He intends to provide scenic art guidance and instruction to beginners, professionals, underrepresented youth and communities.

6th Annual UTTW 2015

Xóchitl González Quintanilla

Born in Mexico City, she studied History at UNAM (National Autonomus University of Mexico), Contemporary Dance at INBA (National Institute of Fine Arts) and Scene Design with Arturo Nava and Alejandro Luna, to whom she was assistant in several stage productions. She also studied Stage Machinery at the Institut of Theatre in Barcelona, which included work at Teatro alla Scala of Milan. She has designed scenery and lighting for more than 200 productions: theater, dance, museography, music, cinema and opera, which include, among others: Elentrayentando, Assembly of Cities, Life is a dream, A streetcar named desire, Waters of forgetfulness, Gallery of the Dying, Divino Pastor Góngora, Antigone, Demons, Son de madera, Ex - Stasis, Si nos dejan, Madame Butterfly, Tercera llamada, Tennessee in body and soul, DF Bipolar and Interzona. She is a member of the SNCA (National System of Artists). She has received the prize "Antonio Lopez Mancera" for Best Scene Design of the Year in 2005 and the Lighting Award in the World Stage Design 2013, Cardiff UK. In 2014, she published Practical Handbook of Scene Design.