Ric Oquita

Ric Oquita is a published and produced writer and playwright and a classically trained actor and dancer. As a Teacher and Teaching Artist, Ric has over 35 years experience working with students and groups of all ages.
 

As a Communications Trainer and Consultant, Ric specializes in Business English and Presentation Training. He is currently a Trainer and Project Leader with Impuls Plus 

As a Project Facilitator, Ric excels in mobilizing outreach work and creating partnerships in education programs, community, health and social service organizations through the arts. He has over 15 years experience as an Arts Educator and Program Developer for community, health, social service and arts organizations. He is experienced in engaging children, teens and adults in addressing such issues as HIV/AIDS, diversity in the workplace, conflict/resolution, and community development. 

 

Ric worked as the Associate Director of Education for New York City Children's Theater (formerly Making Books Sing) from 1999 to 2005. As a Teaching Artist, Ric has worked with New York City Children's Theater (Making Books Sing) at elementary schools in Brooklyn, Queens and the Bronx. As an actor with New York City Children's Theater (Making Books Sing) he appeared as Papi in the world premiere of "The Upside Down Boy", a musical based on the book by Juan Felipe Herrera. Ric also appeared as Meriwether Lewis in Making Books Sing's 2003 production "Bird Woman: The Story of Sacagawea". 

 

Favorite roles as an actor include Macheath in "The Threepenny Opera”, the Hare in "More Grimm Tales”, the title role in "The 13 Hallucinations Of Julio Rivera" and Walter in "Three Postcards" . Regional credits as an actor include: “Into the Woods” (Old Globe Theatre), “McCarthy” (Milwaukee Repertory Theatre), "The Skriker" (Public Theatre), "Entries" (George Street Playhouse), "According To Coyote" (Berkeley Repertor y Theatre), "Radio Mambo" (Mixed Blood Theatre), "La Posada" (Teatro del Pueblo) and "The Correct Posture Of A True Revolutionary" (Los Angeles Theatre Center). 

As a writer, Ric was published in “The Conscious Reader, 9th Edition” and “The Challenge of Advent.” His play "Echoes del Nuevo Mundo", with music by Cristian Amigo, a commission by Teatro del Pueblo based in St. Paul, Minnesota, toured schools in the Minneapolis area.

 

As a director and choreographer, Ric directed Into the Woods for the Bodelschwingh Gymnasium and conceived, choreographed and co-dirceted Grün Kommt for Theaterwerkstatt Bethel in Bielefeld, Germany. He also teaches ongoing Musical Theatre Dance classes.