About
Flordelino Lagundino is a director, actor, producer, and photographer. He is currently based in Juneau, AK, and is the producing artistic director of Theater Alaska - www.theateralaska.org, which brings theatrical events directly into community spaces. He also an art producer at Sealaska Heritage Institute, which perpetuates and enhances Tlingit, Haida and Tsimshian cultures of Southeast Alaska.
He is a graduate of the Brown/Trinity Repertory Company MFA program in directing and The University of Texas at Austin MFA program in acting.
From 2018-2020, Flordelino was the artistic director of Park Square Theatre in Saint Paul, MN, and is a recipient of the 2018 SDCF Sir John Gielgud Classical Theatre Directing Fellowship, the 2017 Drama League New York Directing Fellowship, and acted in the Ivey Award-winning production (Best Ensemble) of Vietgone at Mixed Blood Theatre, MN. He is the former artistic director of Generator Theater and Leviathan Lab.
He has directed at Perseverance Theatre, Pan Asian, Syracuse Stage, Park Square Theatre, Playwrights’ Center, Leviathan Lab, New Dramatists, Juneau Symphony, Oregon Shakespeare Festival (Midnight Project), Arena Stage (Student Playwright's Project), International Theater and Literacy Project, Yale Cabaret, Juneau Arts and Humanities Council, Brown University, Simpson College, Worcester State University, University of Alaska-SE, Tsunami Theatre, and Washington Theater Festival.
As an actor, Flordelino has worked at The Old Globe, The Kennedy Center, Mixed Blood Theatre, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, The Shakespeare Theater Company, The Playwrights’ Center, Pan Asian Rep, African Continuum Theatre Company, The Folger Theatre, Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, ZACH Theatre, Perseverance Theatre, 2G, Leviathan Lab, Imagination Stage, Tsunami Theatre Company, The Last Frontier Theatre Conference, Young Playwrights’ Theatre, Austin Script Works, Source Theater Festival, and was a guest artist with Living Stage Theatre Company.
Flordelino was the recipient of directing fellowships at Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Arena Stage, The Kennedy Center and participated in the TFANA Actors and Directors Project. He has taught at Brown University, Simpson College, The University of Texas at Austin, The New School, and the University of Alaska-Southeast. He is a member of Actors’ Equity Association and Stage Directors and Choreographers Society.
UPCOMING/past PROJECTS
Director, A Doll’s House, Part 2 by Lucas Hnath, Theater Alaska, November 2023
Director, Sacrifice by Dave Hunsaker, Climate Fair for a Cool Planet, Alaska Theater Festival, August 2023
Director, Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare, Theater Alaska, July 2023
Producer, Alaska Theater Festival 2023, June-August, 2023
Director, Fuente Ovejuna by Lope de Vega, Theater for a New Audience, April-May 2023
Producer, Alaska Theater Festival: Radio Plays, Co-production w/ KTOO, Theater Alaska, Juneau Ghost Light Theatre, February 2023
Director, Reeling by Frank Henry Kaash Katasse, Alaska Theater Festival: Radio Plays, February 2023
Producer, Chilkat Dancing of the Robes Ceremony, Sealaska Heritage Institute, February 2023
Director, Every Brilliant Thing by Duncan Macmillan and Jonny Donahoe, Theater Alaska, January 2023
Producer, Alaska Theater Festival 2022, Theater Alaska, May-July 2022
Director, A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare, Theater Alaska, June 2022
Director, Guys and Dolls by Frank Loesser, Jo Swerling and Abe Burrows, Simpson Productions, Simpson College, March 2022
Director, As You Like It by William Shakespeare, Simpson Productions, Simpson College, November 2021
Visiting Assistant Professor, Simpson College, 2021-22 academic year
Director, workshop of Fuenteovejuna by Lope de Vega, Theater for a New Audience, June 2021
Director, Macbeth by William Shakespeare, Theater Alaska, May 2021
Producer, Alaska Theater Festival 2021, Theater Alaska, May-June 2021
Director, Aubergine by Julia Cho, Park Square Theatre, September 2019
Director, Thirty Years in the Future by Rhiana Yazzie and Becky Dale, The 24HR. Musicals: Minneapolis, August 2019
Director, workshop of Foundation by Casey Llewellyn, Playwrights’ Center, April 2019
Director, workshop of Pure//Love by Ray Yamanouchi, Playwrights’ Center, March 2019
Director, workshop of Un (a completely true tale of the rise of Kim Jong Un) by John Kim, Park Square Theatre, February 2019
Director, workshop of Hurt, Me by Maurice Decaul, Park Square Theatre, February 2019
Assistant Director, Richard II by William Shakespeare, dir. Davis McCallum, Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival, April-June 2018
Assistant Director, The Heart of Robin Hood by David Farr, dir. Suzanne Agins, Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival, April-June 2018
Fellow, SDCF Sir John Gielgud Classical Directing Fellowship, April-June 2018
Director, workshop of Deliverance by Maurice Decaul, Cold Read Festival, Syracuse Stage, April 2018
Director, Trigger by Sam Chanse, Leviathan Lab at IATI Theatre, February 23 - March 11, 2018
Director, Wolf Play by Claire Kiechel, Atlantic Theatre School, February 28 - March 2, 2018
Director, Word Words..., Barn Arts Fest, Cloud City, January 21, 2018
Director, FOB by David Henry Hwang, DirectorFest, Sheen Center/Drama League, January 13 & 14, 2018
Fellow, Drama League NY Directing Fellowship, May 2017-January 2018