Guillermo Cienfuegos serves as Artistic Director at Rogue Machine Theatre. He directed the Rogue Machine productions of Evanston Salt Costs Climbing, Heroes of the Fourth Turning, Middle of the World, The Beautiful People, Disposable Necessities, Ready Steady Yeti Go and Dutch Masters. Cienfuegos won both the Ovation and Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Awards for Best Director for his production of Shakespeare’s Henry V at Pacific Resident Theatre. He has directed numerous productions at PRT, including Ionesco’s Rhinoceros, Pinter’s The Homecoming and Safe at Home: An Evening with Orson Bean. Most recently, Cienfuegos directed Martyna Majok’s Ironbound , with Marin Ireland and Jon Bernthal, at the inaugural Ojai Theatre Festival. Other directing credits include Shaw’s Misalliance and Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing at A Noise Within, the Los Angeles Premiere of Stephen Adly Guirgis’ Pulitzer Prize winner Between Riverside and Crazy at the Fountain Theatre. Julia, both at PRT and at New York’s 59E59 theatre, Off-Broadway, the World Premiere of Middle of the World at Boise Contemporary Theatre and the World Premiere of Christmas Contigo at Oregon Cabaret Theatre. Guillermo Cienfuegos is the directing pseudonym of actor Alex Fernandez, who has appeared at numerous regional theatres, including the American Conservatory Theatre, Alaska Rep and the Old Globe, as well as in dozens of local productions most notably Henry V, The Cherry Orchard and Rhinoceros at PRT, Exiles at the Hayworth and Luka’s Room at Rogue Machine. Fernandez has over 175 film and television credits, most recently recurring on the series American Gigolo, Mayans MC and Good Trouble and Seal Team. Cienfuegos was featured in the ‘People to Watch’ issue of American Theatre magazine and is a graduate of the American Conservatory Theatre.