Jecamiah Ybanez

Jecamiah Ybañez is a M.F.A. candidate in Directing at the Yale School of Drama. His thesis production, Seven Spot on the Sun, is an epic mystical fable about the how communities moves through times of trauma and war. Set in a fictional town in South America, the story is inspired by the events leading up to and following the Dirty War of Argentina. Other directorial credits of his include: Much Ado About Nothing, In the Palm of a Giant, Blood Play (Yale School of Drama)Re:Union (Yale Cabaret). He has also directed The Yellow Boat, Tea and Sympathy, and The Case of the Crushed Petunias. Jecamiah directed the world premiere of L’Absinthe for Lovers, What Thoughts Did, Martín: Love, Sex, & Rhythm, and the devised piece American Pie. He has worked on festivals at the Kennedy Center (World Stages, and IBERIAN SUITE: a global arts remix) and the Encuentro 2014 at The Los Angeles Theatre Center. He was the Assistant to the Artistic Director at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, Howard Shalwitz, where assisted on the world premiere of Aaron Posner’s Stupid F##king Bird. He has been awarded the Artistic Leadership Fellowship by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and has sat on the National Steering Committee of the Latinx Theatre Commons. He is alumnus of the Allen Lee Hughes Fellowship at Arena Stage in Washington D.C., the F.A.I.R. program at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, and the Lincoln Center Director’s Lab. Jecamiah holds a B.F.A. in Theatre from Texas State University.