AMELIA ROSE ESTRADA

Amelia Rose Estrada is a queer, Dominican-Cuban-Jewish director, choreographer, and producer. She is interested in crafting work that speaks to Latinidad, diaspora, queerness, and intergenerational ancestral relationality. Recent projects include Oedipus el Rey (Assistant Director) by Luis Alfaro at The Huntington, Blood Orange by Abigail Duclos at A.R.T/New York (Associate Director/Choreographer), Don’t Eat the Mangos by Ricardo Pérez González at The Huntington (Assistant Director), Sanctuary City at Tufts University (Director), Spanky-A Choreoplay at Dance Place (Director/Choreographer), “Love is Love is Love” at The Kennedy Center (co-choreographed with Gabriel Mata), and “PAPAYA” at the Rockwell (co-directed/choreographed with Elle Jansen), among others. Favorite performance credits include A Dance For You, For Me with Eventual Dance Company at Jacobs Pillow, CarmXn with Hogfish, Romeo and Juliet with Brian Sanders and the Philadelphia Orchestra, and Dancing Dead with Brian Sanders JUNK. Amelia is the co-program lead of Midday Movement’s choreographic residency Rough Drafts, an incubator for new dance work in Boston. She graduated Summa Cum Laude from Swarthmore College and holds an M.A. in Theater and Performance Studies from Tufts University.