Most recently, Flordelino was the assistant director to Ping Chong for the World Premiere stage adaptation of Akira Kurosawa’s Throne of Blood at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival.  And in November, he will travel with the show to New York City where it will be featured in Brooklyn Academy of Music’s 2010 Next Wave Festival.  He is currently working on the development of a new musical by Ronee Penoi that will be presented in 2011 at The Flashpoint’s Mead Theatre Lab in Washington, DC; a performance piece based on Tlingit songs and dancing with the writer Ishmael Hope; and The Whites by Raymond Caldwell.

For almost five years, Flordelino worked as an artist and administrator at Perseverance Theatre holding such positions as Marketing Director and Director of the University Program at University of Alaska at Southeast.  At Perseverance, he directed Doubt, Yellowman, the World Premieres of Cedar House and Brother by Ishmael Hope, Topdog/Underdog, and the World Premiere of Voyage, which was based on interviews with Filipinos living in the community.  Also in Juneau, he is the Founder and Producing Artistic Director of Generator Theatre Company (formerly Thunder Mountain Theatre Project) where he directed True West and Shakespeare’s R&J.  Flordelino was the 2009-2010 Allen Lee Hughes Directing Fellow at Arena Stage in Washington, DC, where he was a member of the Artistic Development team under Associate Artistic Director David Dower, and worked as the assistant director to Artistic Director Molly Smith (The Light in the Piazza), Lisa Peterson (The Quality of Life), Evan Yionoulis (Workshop of The Redhand Guitar), Amanda Dehnert (The Fantasticks), Kenny Leon (Stickfly), and Charles Randolph-Wright (Duke Ellington’s Sophisticated Ladies with choreography by Maurice Hines). While at Arena, he was privileged to direct one of the winning plays from the Arena Stage 2010 Student Playwrights Project Ten-Minute Play Competition, How to Talk Fish and Sing Pretty Songs by Duke Ellington School of the Arts 12th-grader Diamante Dorsey.

As an actor, he has performed regionally at The Shakespeare Theatre Company under the direction of Michael Kahn, The Kennedy Center, African Continuum Theatre Company, The Folger Theatre, Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, Zachary Scott Theatre Center, Perseverance Theatre, Imagination Stage, Tsunami Theatre Company, The Last Frontier Theatre Conference, Young Playwrights’ Theatre, Austin Script Works, Source Theater Festival, and was a guest artist with Living Stage Theatre Company.  As a member of the Perseverance Theatre acting company, he performed in Hamlet, Hair, Twelfth Night, Noises Off, The Last Five Years, The Who’s Tommy, The Inspector General, 8 Stars of Gold, King Island Christmas, and the World Premieres of the musical The Long Season by Fabian Obispo and Chay Yew and the musical Yeast Nation by Mark Hollman and Greg Kotis. 

Flordelino holds an MFA in Acting with a secondary concentration in Directing from The University of Texas at Austin and participated in the Kennedy Center’s Master Class in The Collaborative Process with designers Ming Cho Lee and Constance Hoffman.  He founded and was the artistic director of Tsunami Theatre in Washington, DC, which was dedicated to developing the work of Asian American theatre artists.  He is the producing artistic director of Generator Theatre Company.

Flordelino has taught acting at the University of Texas at Austin and at the University of Alaska Southeast.