About
Kiki Rivera (she, they, we) is an internationally produced, award-winning theatre artist, educator, and arts activist with her BA in Theatre and MFA in Playwriting from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa (UHM). Original plays include Puzzy (featuring award-winning New Zealand Playwright Victor Rodger), and Faʻalavelave: The Interruption.
Their work appears in the anthologies: Samoan Queer Lives, Lighting the Way: An Anthology of Short Plays About the Climate Crises.
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Experience & Expertise
Residencies
Resident Playwright and Panelist at Breaking Ground: Indigenous Playwright’s Festival in Wellington, NZ — June 2019
Pasifika Transmissions at Pacific Island Ethnic Art Museum (PIEAM), Long Beach, CA — Sept. 2020
Lecturer
Fall 2016-Present
Center of Pacific Island Studies Dept., PACS 303: Thinking through Pacific Art, Ritual, and Performance, the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, Spring 2019
Filling the Void: Creating Playing Space for Today’s Pacific Islander Brown Bag Biography Series, University of Hawaii at Mānoa Center for Biographical Research, Apr. 19, 2018
Lecture/Guest Artist/Director University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo-Dept. Of English, Oct. 21-27, 2016
Teaching Artist
January 2008-Present
Workshop Facilitator
2016-Present
Writing for the Pacific Theatre. Words@Mānoa/Hawaiʻi Review Writing Conference, Oct. 19, 2019
Moving Through Words: Finding the Story in Our Body, Words@Manoa/Hawai'i Review Writing Conference, Nov. 18, 2017
Voice Over Talent
2010-Present
Gray Television Group Inc.
Vein at Kakaʻako, Radio ad, 2019
Waikiki Health, Radio ad, 2019
Segway Hawaii, 2017
Queen Kapiʻolani, 2018
Hawaii Public Radio
Aloha Shorts, Voice Actor/Storyteller, 2009-2012, 2018
Hawaii Dept. of Education/ PBS Hawaii
Ranching in Hawaiʻi, Narration, 2017
Hawaii News Now
Chaiʻs Island Bistro, Radio/television ad, 2017
Caring Across Generations, Radio ad, 2017
Articles
March 2019
2016-Present
Puzzy (one-act)
F.C.C. Workshop, Auckland, NZ. — Nov. 26, 2015
F.C.C. Staged Reading, Auckland, NZ.— Nov. 28, 2015
*Production, Basement Theatre, Auckland, NZ — Feb. 9-13, 2016
Staged Reading, University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo— Oct. 25, 2016
*Production, Kumu Kahua Theatre, Honolulu, HI— March 30-April 30, 2017
*Production, Bishop Arts Theatre, Dallas, TX— March 21-April 7, 2019
Faʻalavelave The Interruption (Full-length)
Staged Reading/Workshop, Paʻi Arts Gallery, Honolulu, HI — May 3, 2017
*Production, Kennedy Theatre, Honolulu, HI—Nov. 29-Dec. 3, 2017
*Production, Kumu Kahua Theatre, Honolulu, HI— Nov. 7-Dec.8, 2019
Plantation Plays (Commissioned short-play)
*Production, Leeward Theatre, Pearl City, HI— Feb. 18-26, 2017
Re-mount *Production, Leeward Theatre, Pearl City, HI— Nov. 4-19, 2017
Kumu Kukui (Commissioned short-play)
Climate Change Theatre Action 2019 Play Readings
Douglas College, New Westminster, Canada— Sept.24
Greenfield, MA— Oct. 13, 14, 19, Dec. 7
Edge Hill University, Ormskirk, UK— Oct. 14
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA— Nov. 4, 8
Artworks Theatre, Waiheke Island, NZ— Nov.15
National School of Drama, Tripura, India— Nov. 17
Phil Tarro Theatre, Mt. Vernon, WA.— Nov. 22, 23
Eco-Design Charrette, Toronto, Canada—Dec. 2
Live On Air WPVM FM 103.7, Asheville, NC— Dec.12
To Our Black & Brown Babies of Ocean and Islands (Short scene)
Reset Theatre Coalition (Online)— July 10, 2020
Girl's Dance (Short story)
Reset Theatre Coalition (Online)— July 31, 2020
Online MC
Los Angeles Asian American Pacific Island Film Festival (LAAPFF) Virtual Showcase
Pacific Cinewaves— May 3, 2020
Monday Night VC: Past Pasifika— May 11, 2020
Born This Way Q&— May 27, 2020
C3: Pacific Cinewaves— Sept. 26, 2020
TeAda Productions
Coconut Wireless: Island Mama's Tutunap Hour— Sept. 20, 2020
Voice Talent Samples
Contact
Get in touch for additional information about our upcoming event or to book a classroom visit!
Redondo Beach, CA
808-457-0892
