LUCHA TEOTL
Pro wrestling bursts onto the stage in a high-octane, immersive, 90-minute thrill ride.
It’s a night in the theater that you’ll never forget. Experience the heart-pumping action ringside, as the space transforms into a professional wrestling arena—a perfect backdrop for the high drama and rich cultural history of lucha libre. Originally developed with Prism Movement Theater and produced in partnership with CLATA and the National Museum of Mexican Art as part of 2023 Destinos Festival, actors and luchadores (wrestlers) in masks representative of Aztec gods play out an exciting wrestling story about family, honor, tradition and redemption.
Presented in English with some Spanish dialogue.
Jeff Colangelo
Jeff Colangelo (Playwright/Director) is a director, writer and fight coordinator from Dallas, TX . Since 2014, Colangelo served as one of the premiere fight directors in Dallas Texas, choreographing fights and movement for companies like Sea World, Dallas Theater Center, the Atlanta Aquarium, Dallas Children’s Theater and the Dallas Opera. His work has even been seen on American Theater Magazine. Since 2017 he has also served as the artistic director of Prism Movement Theater, producing over 14 original productions with the company. Previous directing credits include: LUCHA TEOTL; Everything Will Be Fine (Prism Movement Theater); Latinadad Festival 2021-22, Gog and Magog, Two Clown Trapped in Hell (Cara Mia Theater). Assistant directing credits include Cirque Joyeux 2019-22 and a very Merry Cirque 2021-22 (Gaylord Hotel/Lone Star Circus). Colangelo graduated from Southern Methodist University in 2013 with a degree in Theater Studies. @jeffcolangelo
Christopher Llewyn Ramirez
Christopher Llewyn Ramirez is an actor, director, playwright from Dallas, TX and a recent Chicago transplant. Directing credits include: LUCHA TEOTL (Goodman Theatre) A Christmas Carol; Native Gardens (Farmers Alley Theater); Luchadora! (Cara Mia Theatre Company); LUCHA TEOTL (Prism Movement Theatre); Little Shop of Horrors (Junior Players); Associate director of A Midsummer Nights Dream (Chicago Shakespeare Theatre); and Associate director of A Christmas Carol (Dallas Theater Center. Acting credits include: Inherit the Wind; American Mariachi (Goodman Theater); Guys and Dolls; Cinderella (Drury Lane Theatre); Native Gardens; Into the Woods; In the Heights; Twelfth Night; Sweat; White Rabbit Red Rabbit; Hair; Hood: The Robin Hood Musical Adventure (Dallas Theater Center); Stede Bonnet a F*cking Pirate Musical and Hands on a Hardbody (Theatre Three); The Great Distance Home; Elliot, A Soldiers Fugue (WaterTower Theatre); Empathitrax (Second Thought Theatre); An Octoroon (Stage West); It Shoulda Been You; Titanic (Uptown Players); Zoot Suit; blu; Crystal City 1969 (Cara Mía Theatre Co.); The Winter’s Tale; Pericles, (Shakespeare Dallas). Ramirez received his BFA in Theatre Performance from Baylor University. @chrisllewynramirez
Creative Team
Written and Directed by, Christopher Llewyn Ramirez and Jeff Colangelo
Wrestling Coordinator, Luis “Aski” Palomino
Set Designer, Anna Louizos
Costume Designer, Nicole Alvarez
Lighting Designer, Jason Lynch
Projections Co-Designers, Michael Salvatore Commendatore & Rasean Davonté Johnson
Choreographer, William Carlos Angulo
Original Music and Sound Designer, Michael Huey
Performance History
Goodman Theatre, 2023
Prism Movement Theater, 2021
LUCHA TEOTL grabs you from the start and makes you never want to tap out!”
— New City Stage
