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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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CV

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

The Rogers  Q&A— May 27, 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

Find Us Here

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Lighting the Way: An Anthology of Short Plays About the Climate Crises

Samoan Queer Lives

Kiki as Visual Artist Representing Pacific Island Ethnic Art Museum

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Contact

Get in touch for additional information about our upcoming event or to book a classroom visit!

Redondo Beach, CA

808-457-0892

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