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Henry Godinez

Department of Theatre

Born in Havana, Cuba, Henry Godinez is a leader in Chicago Latino theatre. The Resident Artistic Associate at the Goodman Theatre, Godinez is the director of the Goodman's biennial Latino Theatre Festival featuring international, national and local Latino theatre companies. Most recently Mr. Godinez directed A Year With Frog and Toad for Chicago Children’s Theatre and the world premiere of Mariela in the Desert by Karen Zacarias at the Goodman. In the fall of 2007 he will direct Eduardo Machado’s The Cook at Goodman. Other productions include Anna in the Tropics at Victory Gardens Theatre, Nilo Cruz’s Two Sisters and a Piano for Apple Tree Theatre (a co-production with Teatro Vista), True West at Portland Center Stage and Urban Zulu Mambo at Signature Theatre in New York City, as well as its Goodman world premiere version Millennium Mambo, both starring Regina Taylor. Also at the Goodman, he directed Electricidad and the world premiere of Straight as a Line, both by Luis Alfaro, Zoot Suit by Luis Valdez, Psst…I Have Something To Tell You, Mi Amor by Ana Castillo, Red Cross (one of the five short plays in Transformations), the Goodman/ Teatro Vista co-production of Jose Rivera's Cloud Tectonics and six seasons of the Goodman’s production of A Christmas Carol.

Godinez is the co-founder of Teatro Vista and served as its artistic director for the first five years. Also with Teatro Vista, he directed El Paso Blue and Santos & Santos by Octavio Solis, Journey of the Sparrows, The Crossing and Eduardo Machado’s Broken Eggs. Other directing credits include The Winter’s Tale at Kansas City Repertory Theatre, Macbeth for the Oak Park Festival Theatre, Romeo and Juliet at the Colorado Shakespeare Festival, as well as several seasons of “Stories on Stage” for WBEZ Chicago Public Radio. He was an Associate Professor at The Theatre School of DePaul University and an Artist-In-Residence at Columbia College Chicago. As an actor he has been seen at The Old Globe Theatre, Goodman Theatre, Chicago Shakespeare Theater, The Kennedy Center, The Court Theatre and Victory Gardens Theatre, as well as in television and films including Above the Law, The Fugitive and The Package. He has served as a site evaluator and panelist for the National Endowment for the Arts.

Education

MFA	Professional Theatre Training Program, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (now located at The University of Delaware)
BA	Theatre, University of Dallas

Recent Awards and Honors

1999	TCG Alan Schneider Directing Award
2000	Distinguished Service Award, Lawyers for the Creative Arts

Courses

243-1	Acting I: Principles of Characterization-Basic Concepts
243-2	Acting I: Principles of Characterization-Dramatic Imagination
243-3	Acting I: Principles of Characterization-Dramatic Characterization
341-1,2,3	Acting II Analysis and Performance
349-3	Acting III: Latino Theatre