Nahuel Telleria (he/him/él) is an Argentine-US theater scholar and practitioner who investigates contemporary and historical issues of dramatic structure, performance theory, politics, religion, and affect in Latin America. He is an educator, dramaturg, translator, and writer. His current research analyzes the confessional attributes of Argentine postdictatorship theater in relation to the socioeconomic contexts of democratic return and financial collapse.

In 2016, he co-dramaturged Yale Repertory Theatre’s production of Happy Days, which saw remounts at Theatre for a New Audience (2017) and Mark Taper Forum (2019); his translation of Lorca’s Blood Wedding premiered at the Wilma Theater in 2017. Other credits include: Seph by Tori Keenan-Zelt (Araca Project, 2017) and Ni Mi Madre by Arturo Luís Soria (Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, 2021). Nahuel is a 2019 Fulbright research grant recipient; a member of the Contemporary Theater, Politics, and Society in Latin America Working Group at the Gino Germani Research Institute of the University of Buenos Aires, and an MFA/DFA graduate from David Geffen School of Drama at Yale University.

New Play Dramaturgy; Latinx and Latin American Theater; Global Theater Histories; Medieval Drama; Modern and Postmodern Theater and Performance; Adaptation; Spanish-Language Translation (Prose and Verse)

English, Spanish, German

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