Polynesian · Actor · Playwright · Educator
Award-winning theatre artist, arts activist, and educator from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa.
About
Kiki Rivera (she, they, we) is an internationally produced, award-winning theatre artist, educator, and arts activist with her BA in Theatre and MFA in Playwriting from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa (UHM).
Original plays include Puzzy (featuring award-winning New Zealand Playwright Victor Rodger), and Faʻalavelave: The Interruption.
Their work appears in the anthologies: Samoan Queer Lives, Lighting the Way: An Anthology of Short Plays About the Climate Crises.
Experience & Expertise
June 2019
Resident Playwright and Panelist — Breaking Ground: Indigenous Playwright's Festival, Wellington, NZ
Sept. 2020
Pasifika Transmissions — Pacific Island Ethnic Art Museum (PIEAM), Long Beach, CA
Fall 2016 – Present
Center of Pacific Island Studies Dept., PACS 303: Thinking through Pacific Art, Ritual, and Performance — University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, Spring 2019
Filling the Void: Creating Playing Space for Today's Pacific Islander — Brown Bag Biography Series, UHM Center for Biographical Research, Apr. 19, 2018
Guest Artist/Director — University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo, Dept. of English, Oct. 21–27, 2016
January 2008 – Present
Teada Productions
Honolulu Theatre for Youth
2016 – Present
Writing for the Pacific Theatre — Words@Mānoa / Hawaiʻi Review Writing Conference, Oct. 19, 2019
Moving Through Words: Finding the Story in Our Body — Words@Mānoa / Hawaiʻi Review, Nov. 18, 2017
2010 – Present
Gray Television Group Inc. · Vein at Kakaʻako Radio ad (2019) · Waikiki Health Radio ad (2019) · Segway Hawaii (2017) · Queen Kapiʻolani (2018)
Hawaii Public Radio — Aloha Shorts, Voice Actor / Storyteller (2009–2012, 2018)
Hawaii Dept. of Education / PBS Hawaii — Ranching in Hawaiʻi, Narration (2017)
Productions
Works
Featured Work
Samoan Queer Lives
PCCG Courier
Writing
