Flordelino is the Artistic Director of Generator Theater Company (www.generatortheater.org), where he directed True West, Shakespeare’s R&J, the world premiere of The Reincarnation of Stories, and co-directed [title of show]. Other directing credits include Doubt, Yellowman, the World Premieres of Cedar House and Brother by Ishmael Hope, Topdog/Underdog, and the world premiere of Voyage at Perseverance Theatre; a concert staging of Sweeney Todd with the Juneau Symphony; the developmental reading of Indian School Stories at The Flashpoint’s Mead Theatre Lab; The Sound of a Voice with Tsunami Theatre.
As an actor, Flordelino 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, ZACH Theatre, 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, The Importance of Being Earnest, 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, the Tony Award-winning creators of Urinetown.
From 2005 to 2009, Flordelino worked as an artist and administrator at Perseverance Theatre in Juneau, Alaska holding the positions of Marketing Director and Director of the University Program at University of Alaska at Southeast. 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. In other work as an assistant, he assisted Ping Chong on the World Premiere stage adaptation of Akira Kurosawa’s Throne of Blood at Oregon Shakespeare Festival and at Brooklyn Academy of Music’s 2010 Next Wave Festival, and he assisted James Bundy on Edward Albee’s A Delicate Balance at Yale Repertory Theatre.
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 has taught acting at the University of Texas at Austin and at the University of Alaska Southeast.
Originally from Washington, DC, Flordelino has lived in Japan, South Korea, Bolivia, England, Texas, and Alaska. He currently resides in New Haven, CT.
