Eric Aviles is an actor, writer, producer, and teaching artist based in NYC.
A veteran actor he’s performed nationally at El Teatro Campesino, Steppenwolf, Goodman, Teatro Vista, and INTAR. Many roles he’s portrayed examine the Latino experience in the United States.
Notable performance include the production of Borderlands Theatre Maria Circular Dance at the first National Latino Theatre Festival “Encuentro” in Los Angeles, and the world premiere of Oedipus El Rey by Luis Alfaro at the Magic Theatre. He’s in the first produce film about Puerto Ricans in Chicago called “Chicago Boricua”. He wrote In the Beginning, a spoken word performance he did with accompanying music by 7-time Grammy nominee John Santos.
Eric received the 2018 New York Innovative Theater Award for "Outstanding Original Full Length Script" and nominee for "Outstanding Solo Performance" for his solo play, Where You From? What You Be About?
He has over 20 years teaching artist experience, directing, and producing original devise plays with youth and adults in schools, community centers, and prisons. He integrates meditation, yoga, and other rituals to create a brave space for ensemble work. His goal is to combine his extensive experience as a performer and writer with activism and community healing. Current organizations he works with include Dreamyard Project, Ping Chong & Co., and Theater Develop Fund (TDF).
Eric and his wife Arlene Chico-Lugo are co-founders of Liberation Arts Collective, a multidisciplinary arts organization determine to create positive, thoughtful, and transformative art. Their short film 6FT OF LOVE received Honorable Mention for experimental film at the 11th International Puerto Rican Heritage Film Festival.
Eric is a Lower Manhattan Cultural Council “Creative Engagement”, and a Puffin Foundation grant recipient.
A veteran actor he’s performed nationally at El Teatro Campesino, Steppenwolf, Goodman, Teatro Vista, and INTAR. Many roles he’s portrayed examine the Latino experience in the United States.
Notable performance include the production of Borderlands Theatre Maria Circular Dance at the first National Latino Theatre Festival “Encuentro” in Los Angeles, and the world premiere of Oedipus El Rey by Luis Alfaro at the Magic Theatre. He’s in the first produce film about Puerto Ricans in Chicago called “Chicago Boricua”. He wrote In the Beginning, a spoken word performance he did with accompanying music by 7-time Grammy nominee John Santos.
Eric received the 2018 New York Innovative Theater Award for "Outstanding Original Full Length Script" and nominee for "Outstanding Solo Performance" for his solo play, Where You From? What You Be About?
He has over 20 years teaching artist experience, directing, and producing original devise plays with youth and adults in schools, community centers, and prisons. He integrates meditation, yoga, and other rituals to create a brave space for ensemble work. His goal is to combine his extensive experience as a performer and writer with activism and community healing. Current organizations he works with include Dreamyard Project, Ping Chong & Co., and Theater Develop Fund (TDF).
Eric and his wife Arlene Chico-Lugo are co-founders of Liberation Arts Collective, a multidisciplinary arts organization determine to create positive, thoughtful, and transformative art. Their short film 6FT OF LOVE received Honorable Mention for experimental film at the 11th International Puerto Rican Heritage Film Festival.
Eric is a Lower Manhattan Cultural Council “Creative Engagement”, and a Puffin Foundation grant recipient.
