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Rubén Polendo

Rubén Polendo is Founding Artistic Director of Theater Mitu

Rubén Polendo is Founding Artistic Director of Theater Mitu. With over forty-five company-created works, Mitu has been presented nationally and internationally.  Committed to innovation, the company's home (located in a re-furbished warehouse in Brooklyn) has become a unique gathering place where trans-disciplinary arts practice is interrogated, incubated, and produced. Polendo is a researcher, professor, and Associate Dean for the Tisch Institute of Performing Arts at NYU.

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Preserving and Transmitting American Ensemble-Based Theatre, Part Two: Presenter Perspectives 

24 October 2024

In 2023, Pig Iron Theater Company held the National Endowment for the Humanities Preserving and Transmitting American Ensemble-Based Theater​​ Institute. The presenters, some interviewed in this episode, provided in depth perspectives on how their ensemble-based processes created connections to a wide variety of audiences.

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Gore and Myth in Theatre Mitu's (holy) BLOOD

29 February 2024

In this episode we talk with the founding artistic director of Theater Mitu, Rubén Polendo, about the hope for the future that inspired Utopian Hotline—now traveling through space as part of the Golden Record. We also discuss the gore, myth, and puppet-robots with their own point of view in Jodorowsky-inspired Santa Sangre.

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