Rudi is a playwright, educator, and performer who creates solo theater and devised theater work. As a dancer, he has toured nationally and internationally, competing, adjudicating, and teaching with the acclaimed group Flipside Kings.

 

He is a 2025 USA Fellow, a recipient of the Colman Domingo Award, a three-time winner of playwriting awards from the Kennedy Center, the Lorraine Hansberry Playwriting Award, and an O'Neill Finalist.  His accolades include a Future Aesthetics Artist Award, two Miami-Dade County Choreographer Awards, and a FEAST Award for his book of poetry, "A Bag of Halos and Horns." 

 

He has trained and worked with Cirque De Soleil and DV8 Physical Theatre and is a founding member of Teo Castellanos D-Projects and Rosie Herrera Dance Theatre. 

 

Selected venues where his work has been presented include the Geffen Playhouse, The Shed, New York Theatre Workshop, Vineyard Theatre, the Fisher Center at Bard, Yale Cabaret, Alliance Theatre, and Rattlestick Theater.

 

Publications include Theater Magazine, Imagined Theatres: Writing for a Theoretical Stage, Concord Theatricals, and PEN America.

 

He holds an MFA in playwriting from the Yale School of Drama.