Xiomara Cornejo

Theatre. Visual Art. Music.

Xiomara Cornejo

Theatre. Visual Art. Music.

Short Bio

Dr. Xiomara Cornejo (she/her/ella) is a Salvadoran American theatre director, and award-winning designer, award-winning playwright, award-winning dramaturg, as well as award-winning educator and scholar from Compton, California. Her professional work includes theatre directing, dramaturgy, design, after-school arts programming, applied theatre, and community organizing. Her scholarship centers on street and protest theatre, radical theatre history of the Americas, political puppetry, and circus.

FEATURED WORK: Fefu and Her Friends by María Irene Fornés

Featuring: Lola Fratto, India Culpepper, Ally Uyao, Olivia Rog, Audrey Bixby, Elizabeth Nahulak, Tyara Whitted, Jessica Espinoza

Director: Xiomara Cornejo

Photography by: Michael Brosilow

University of Illinois at Chicago

Featuring: Elizabeth Nahulak, Jessica Espinoza

Director: Xiomara Cornejo

Photography by: Michael Brosilow

University of Illinois at Chicago

Featuring: Olivia Rog

Director: Xiomara Cornejo

Photography by: Xiomara Cornejo

University of Illinois at Chicago

Featuring: Olivia Rog

Director: Xiomara Cornejo

Photography by: Michael Brosilow

University of Illinois at Chicago

Directing (selected works)

References to Salvador Dali Make Me Hot by José Rivera

Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach CA.

Assistant Director

Every 28 Hours by various authors

Rhynsburger Theatre, Columbia MO.

Photography by Rebecca Allen with Permission from MU Theatre.

Director

Every.Single.One by Cherie Sampson
Photography by Rebecca Allen with Permission from MU Theatre.

Assistant Director
The Laramie Project by Moisés Kaufman and members of the Tectonic Theater Project
Photography by Rebecca Allen with Permission from MU Theatr

Director

Birdsong by Melissa Jackson-Burns
Photography by Rebecca Allen with Permission from MU Theatre

Director
The Vagina Monologues by Eve Ensler
The Found Theatre, Long Beach CA.

Video Design (selected works)

Music Art video for "Centered" by In Sepia featuring Stephen Walters on drums, Andrew Monzon on guitar/bass and Xiomara Cornejo on vocals.

How often do we wish we could take something back? Or return to a moment in time? There’s no going back once something is said and done. Everything is in the moment, even when the moment has passed. we are constantly longing to “return” and to a time before last.

Imagine, what new discoveries occur when we look “closely” at the world around us? Nature is a great canvas. Our perception of the world can change when we chose to engage in an intimate level. An old world captured through the lens of a new world, all from original sources.