Inside ATC Artist: Michael John Garcés

Michael John Garcés

previously directed The Royale at Arizona Theatre Company. Regional credits include For the People by Ty Defoe and Larissa FastHorse (The Guthrie Theatre), Native Nation by Larissa FastHorse (ASU Gammage), Seize the King by Will Power (The Alliance Theatre), the just and the blind by Marc Bamuthi Joseph and Daniel Bernard Roumain (Carnegie Hall and The Kennedy Center), The Play You Want by Bernardo Cubrias (The Road Theatre Company), and The Rivers Don’t Know by James McManus (City Theatre). He is the former artistic director of Cornerstone Theater Company, where he directed many projects including Highland Park is Here by Mark Valdez, California: The Tempest by Alison Carey, and Café Vida by Lisa Loomer. Plays he has written include TOWN (Theatre Horizon) and 36 Yesses and Magic Fruit (Cornerstone). Garces is a professor of practice at Arizona State University. He is the recipient of the Doris Duke Artist Award and the Princess Grace Statue Award.