About the Instructor

Olga Sanchez Saltveit

Graduate Teaching Fellow, Department of Theatre Arts, University of Oregon
Artistic Director Emerita, Milagro, Portland, Oregon

Fall 2018 Office Hours ~ By appointment in 107 VIL           
Contact ~  Phone: 541-346-4204 / Email: osanchez@uoregon.edu

BIO

Olga Sanchez Saltveit is currently enrolled in the U of O Theatre Arts PhD program. She is Artistic Director Emerita of Milagro, the NW’s premier Latino arts & culture organization, where she served as Artistic Director from 2003-2015.
A professional actor, director, writer, educator and a graduate of Hunter College, C.U.N.Y., her directorial work has been seen in Portland, Seattle, New York City, Martha’s Vineyard, Honduras, Peru, Venezuela and Cuba. Olga served as co-artistic director of the People’s Playhouse in New York City, artistic director of Seattle Teatro Latino and co-founded La Casa de Artes, a Seattle-based non-profit organization dedicated to celebrating the beauty of Latino arts and cultural heritage.
Born in Queens, NY, of Colombian heritage, she recovered her first language, Spanish, working with the communities of La Casa de Artes and Milagro. She holds an MA in Human Development, specialization in Bicultural Development, from Pacific Oaks College Northwest. In 2015, her work received a Portland Drama Critics’ DRAMMY award for Outstanding Achievement in Devised Work for Milagro’s production of ¡O ROMEO!. A founding member of the Portland-based Latino writers’ group Los Porteños, her play BROKEN PROMISES toured around the country with Teatro Milagro in 2016. Most recently, she directed COMO AGUA PARA CHOCOLATE, based on the novel by Laura Esquivel, for Gala Hispanic Theatre in Washington, DC. In Spring 2018, she directed TRICKS TO INHERIT, her translation of ASTUCIAS POR HEREDAR UN SOBRINO A UN TIO by Fermin de Reygadas (1789) for the University Theatre. As a TCG (Theatre Communications Group) Board Member, Olga served on the Executive Committee and the Diversity Task Force. She currently serves on the Steering Committee for the Latinx Theatre Commons, a program of Howlround/Center for the Theatre Commons at Emerson College.
Member, AEA, SAG-AFTRA, SDC, & GTFF.