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 his award-winning group, Flipside Kings.

 

Rudi is a recipient of the Vineyard Theatre's 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, a FEAST Award for his book of poetry, "A Bag of Halos and Horns," and a Theater Masters' Take Ten Playwright honor.

 

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

 

Selected venues where his work has been shown include New York Theatre Workshop, Vineyard Theatre, Fisher Center at Bard, Yale Cabaret, Alliance Theatre, Rattlestick Theater, and Spiegeltent. Publications include Theater Magazine, Imagined Theatres: Writing for a Theoretical Stage, Samuel French, Concord Theatricals, and PEN America.

 

He holds an MFA in playwriting from the Yale School of Drama, where he was mentored by Tarell Alvin McCraney and Sarah Ruhl. He is currently teaching in the Theatre Arts Department at the University of Miami.