Camilo Quiroz-Vázquez

Camilo Quiroz-Vázquez is a Chicano theater artist, filmmaker, and visual artist from Los Angeles, California. He began his artistic journey at a community arts center, Plaza de La Raza, which inspired and empowered him to study at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. In 2012, Camilo co-founded the multimedia production company One Whale’s Tale with Ellpetha Tsivicos.

Camilo first collaborated with Brooklyn-based ensemble the TEAM when he filmed and edited a short documentary about the creation of Primer for a Failed Superpower. In August of 2020, he wrote and co-created a workshop of QUINCE, as part of the TEAM’s Petri Project Series, which was performed outdoors at the People’s Garden in Bushwick. QUINCE was then commissioned to be a part of the Bushwick Starr’s 2022 season and was developed through a residency at THE SHED. QUINCE has inspired a series of community events, including two Dia de los Muertos celebrations with the Gowanus Dredgers Canoe Club and a piece at the Summer Arts Festival hosted by OYE! Group and the Bushwick Starr, culminating with QUINCE en La Plaza. QUINCE en la Plaza was commissioned by Lincoln Center as part of their Summer for the City series.

His other credits include the outdoor immersive spectacle Leonora’s World (Designer, Performer) at Double Edge Theatre, Persou (Writer, Co-creator) at the cell theatre in Manhattan, Night Descends on Svalbard (Writer, Co-creator), which was part of the Exponential Festival, and Dolores (Co-writer), a short film about colorism in the Mexican-American community. Camilo crafts stories, masks, puppets, and large sculptural objects inspired by the stories, songs and dances of his parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins, godparents, friends, neighbors, and spirits who intimately shared the spaces of his childhood.