Jose Garcia Davis:
CLASS OF 1977
Rio Grande High SchoolClass of 1977
Albuquerque, NM
Jose's Story
Originally from Albuquerque, New Mexico, José Garcia Davis has resided in Los Angeles, California since 1994 with his lovely and talented wife, dancer/choreographer Licia Perea. He is a video and filmmaker and has made several independent projects. As producer, director, and editor, he made a bilingual (English and Spanish) Pilates mat workout DVD and a fly tying and fishing DVD. In 1999 he made a 30 minute documentary on AIDS prevention for L.A. Theatre Works, and prior to that made 2 short films that screened on the festival circuit. In 1997 his screenplay, Checkpoint won first place in the Latin Entertainment Media Institute Screenplay Competition, for which he was awarded a filmmakers grant. In addition, he has worked on numerous feature films, TV shows, commercials and music videos as an actor, art director, prop master, maskmaker, and sculptor.
Garcia Davis is an accomplished theatre artist with over 25 years of professional experience as an actor, singer, director, writer, producer, designer and teacher. He is on the Board of Directors of Teatro Nuevo Mexico and the Latina Dance Project. In 2008 he performed starring roles in the zarzuelas (Spanish operettas) El Barbero de Sevilla and La Corte de Faraon with Teatro Nuevo Mexico, the National Hispanic Cultural Center (NHCC) and the New Mexico Symphony Orchestra in Albuquerque. He also premiered The Devil and Forty Chickens, a one-man show that he wrote, directed and performed, at the Vancouver International Storytelling Festival, and he is scheduled to perform the show as a part of Teatro Nuevo Mexico¿s 2009 season at the NHCC.
Garcia Davis directed two new stage productions that premiered in 2006 and 2007 at the National Hispanic Cultural Center -- his own musical play, The Magdalena Cantata, and Coyolxuahqui ReMembers, a dance drama created by the Latina Dance Project in collaboration with Garcia Davis. He has been the Artistic Director of two New Mexico based theatre companies, Teatro Consejo, and Oso Amarillo Productions, and Associate Director of Latino Chicago Theatre Company and La Compañia de Teatro de Alburquerque. He has also been an Acting Coach Mentor for Scholastic, Inc. A few more of his professional directing credits include Licia Perea¿s dance drama, Orlando of a Thouand Years, Migdalia Cruz¿s radio play, Dreams of Home, starring Rita Moreno, the zarzuelas, la Revoltosa, La Verbena de la Paloma, and El Barberillo de Lavapies, and the 1989 premiere of the musical theatre production of Santa Fe Spirit!, by Broadway producers Marty and Arlene Markinson.
TIME MAGAZINE included his 2-person touring show Tito on ...Expand for more
their list of the most important works of Latino Theatre of the 1980¿s¿. He produced, directed, played the title role and also created the set for Tito, which he adapted from a poem by Romolo Arellano. Garcia Davis co-wrote, produced, directed, designed and performed in his Next Wave opera, Dia de Visitaciones, a critically acclaimed work based on poetry by award-winning poet L. Luis Lopez. Garcia Davis¿ touring stage play The Unwanted, was featured on the Emmy Award winning PBS program, Colores, as well as Tuff Turf, an hour documentary on gang culture.
Since 1989 Garcia Davis has been developing original theatre with youth and communities. From 2003 to 2006 he was Director of Theater for Environmental Awareness with U.S.- China Environmental Fund, a non governmental organization with offices in China and the United States. Garcia Davis traveled to China regularly where he directed and taught theater to Chinese teachers and youth as a means of exploring environmental and social issues. In 2002 Garcia Davis was Artistic Director of Evidence Room Theater¿s rampART youth Theater project. From 1998 to 2002 he developed six original theatre productions for Homeland Cultural Center in Long Beach. In 1999 he was commissioned by L.A. Theatre Works to write and direct a new 2 act play, The Shattered Mirror, about issues of tolerance. In 1997 Garcia Davis received an Educational Theatre Grant from Kaiser Permanente to perform his children¿s stage play Will Work For Candy, about issues of homelessness and nutrition, in Los Angeles area elementary schools.
Garcia Davis has performed in many varied productions in film , theatre and opera. He has performed at the Edinburgh International Arts Festival , the renowned Tron Theatre in Glasgow, Scotland, The Public Theatre in NY City, in China, Mexico, Russia, Germany, and throughout the U.S.. He studied film at UCLA Extension and has a BAFA in Art Studio from the University of New Mexico. He is a protege of renowned acting coach Lawrence Parke, and has taught Stanislavski and Vahktangov acting methods since 1991. He was director Oscar Giner¿s set designer for three years, and he has studied with world famous directors Augusto Boal and Ronald Neame. He studies classical vocal technique with Gualtiero Negrini, and has previously studied with Rita Mosiman, Margaret Morris-Lopez, and Sean Daniel. As a teenager Garcia Davis was apprentice to well-known sculptor Edward Haddaway. Garcia Davis¿ art work has been exhibited in regional, national and international shows and he has designed sets and created masks and puppets for stage and screen.
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