Efren Delgadillo Jr.

Efren Delgadillo Jr. is a Mexican American scenic designer from East Los Angeles and assistant professor of drama at UC Irvine. Trained in studio arts at UCI, his love of architecture, materials, shapes, and performance drew him to scenic design. He has since designed productions across the United States and internationally, with work presented in Italy and Serbia.

In New York, his credits include The Three Musketeers (The Acting Company), Mycenaean (BAM), Open House (Foundry Theatre), and One Thing I Like to Say (Clubbed Thumb). Regional credits include American Mariachi (South Coast Repertory, Arizona Theatre Company), Romeo and Juliet (Oregon Shakespeare Festival), BLKS (Woolly Mammoth Theatre), Kings (South Coast Repertory), Bordertown Now (Pasadena Playhouse), Smart People and Indecent (Denver Center for the Performing Arts), Othello (Hartford Stage), DJ Latinidad (Mixed Blood Theatre), Mojada: A Medea in Los Angeles (The Getty Villa/Boston Court), Prometheus Bound (The Getty Villa/Center for New Performance), Shelter (Center for New Performance), and The Sweetheart Deal (Los Angeles Theatre Center). His international projects include Laude in Urbis with Compagnia di Colombari in Orvieto, Italy, and Flamingo/Winnebago in Novi Sad, Serbia.

Delgadillo is a company member and designer with Poor Dog Group, where his designs include Brewsie and Willie, Satyr Atlas, Dionysia, The Internationalist, Murder Ballad, Five Small Fires, and Group Therapy. As co-founder of SINTROCA, an image- and performance-based company, he has presented work in Edinburgh, Montreal, New York, and Los Angeles.

He is the recipient of LA Weekly Awards for both production design and lighting design for Poor Dog Group’s Brewsie and Willie, and has received nominations for an Ovation Award (Bordertown Now) and a Barrymore Award (Bienvenidos Blancos with Team Sunshine Corporation).

Delgadillo earned an M.F.A. in scenic design from California Institute of the Arts and a B.F.A. in studio arts from UC Irvine. He previously taught as an assistant professor of scenic design at Cal State Northridge and adjunct faculty at CalArts. His teaching emphasizes interdisciplinary collaboration, imagination, and innovation, with the philosophy that wrong turns are iterations leading toward creative discovery.

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