Jesusa Rodríguez

Jesusa Rodr’guez Actress and Theater Director. Mexico 1955.

  • Best Actress Prize for The Council of Love.
  • Awarded during the Americas Theater Festival. in Montreal Canada. 1989.
  • Guggenheim Grant awarded in 1990.
  • Arts and Humanities Grant awarded by the Rockefeller Foundation 1994-1997.

Theater Plays Directed

  • How goes the night Macbeth? a Shakespeare adaptation. 1980.
  • Donna Giovanni a Mozart and Da Ponte adaptation. 1983.
  • The Council of Love By Ozcar Panizza. 1988.
  • Yourcenar or Everyone their Marguerite. 1989.
  • Crime. 1989.
  • William Shakespeare´s Macbeth (2000)

Along with Liliana Felipe restored La Capilla Theater and founded El Habito Cabaret where she has performed and directed more than 320 shows in ten years (1990-2000)

In 1996, Jesusa directed and produced in video the opera Cosí Fan Tutte by Mozart and Da Ponte.

In 1997, directed a version for chamber opera of First Dream by Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz.

In 1998-1999 performed in Mexico City and New York: Belen, a Book of Hours.

In 2000, presented The Fire by Jose Ramon Enriquez, Syphilitic Prometheus by Renato Leduc and the free adaptation of Prometheus by Eschilo.

In 2000, along with Liliana, received the OBIE AWARD granted by New York’s newspaper The Village Voice.

In 2000, Liliana and Jesusa also inaugurated Brava! Theater in San Francisco presenting Belen: a Book of Hours. Currently Jesusa is working on Macbeth by William Shakespeare.

In 2002 she directed William Shakespeare´s Macbeth, with an audience of 2000.

El Habito Cabaret and La Capilla Theater • Madrid 13. Coyoacan. 04100. Mexico City
telfax(55) 5659 1139 y 5659 6305 • elhabito@internet.com.mx