Abel Lopez

Treasurer

Board Member through January 2012
abel@galatheatre.org

Abel Lopez is Associate Producing Director of GALA Hispanic Theatre. Lopez also serves as president of the board of directors of the National Association of Latino Arts and Culture, Vice President of Americans for the Arts and Treasurer of the Association of Performing Arts Presenters. He is Chair-Emeritus of the D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities, and immediate past president of the Helen Hayes Awards, the Performing Arts Alliance, and Theater Communications Group, the national service organization for professional theaters. Lopez is also immediate past chair of the Creative Communities Initiative of the Community Foundation of the National Capital Region. Lopez also is a member of the Federal City Council.

Lopez is a member of the Boards of Directors of the Alliance for Inclusion in the Arts, In Series, and Black Women Playwrights Group. He is a member of the Kennedy Center Community Board, Latino Advisory Board of the Museum of American History of the Smithsonian Institution, and Advisory Committee of The Playwrights Forum. Lopez also teaches in graduate arts management program at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia.

A graduate of Harvard Law School, Lopez is a producer, frequent lecturer, director whose productions have appeared at GALA, Horizons Theatre, DC Arts Center, the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Source Theater and the In Series in Washington, DC; the Arizona Theater Company; the Public Theater in New York; Jomandi Productions in Atlanta; the James Knight Center in Miami; Theatre on the Water in San Francisco; the Teatro Nacional in San Jose; Costa Rica; Teatro Nacional in San Salvador, El Salvador; Teatro San Martin in Caracas, Venezuela; and the National Theatre of Cuba.