Bio

Ricardo Vázquez is a New York actor, singer, and theater creator who appeared in the Tony Award winning Broadway production of The Inheritance and will be seen in the upcoming 2024 Broadway revival of Our Town. Other recent New York credits include Fuente Ovejuna at Theater for a New Audience and The Pool Play's production of Superstitions. He has also appeared in the productions of Hamlet, As You Like It, Macbeth, and Richard III with the Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival, and regionally at the Guthrie Theatre, Mixed Blood Theatre, Teatro del Pueblo, and the Alabama Shakespeare Festival.

He has a passion for new work and has developed work with New York Stage and Film, The Eugene O'Neill Theater Center, Page 73, The New Group, Rattlestick Theater, Kitchen Theatre, National New Play Network (NNPN), Chance Theater, The Children's Theatre Company in Minneapolis, and Seattle Rep. He originated the lead role of Boom in Naomi Iizuka's The Last Firefly, as well as the roles of Davey Jr. in Josh Tobiessen's Crashing The Party, Otto in Kira Obolensky's The Changelings and Victor in Megan Mostyn-Brown’s Lizards.

As a singer, he has collaborated with composer Nick Brooke on two experimental opera productions Time and Motion Study and Mass which premiered at The Massachusetts Museum of Modern Art (MASS MoCA). He originated the roles of Augie Garcia in the musical River Road Boogie: The Augie Garcia Story and Franky Montana in Working Boys Band. Other musical roles and productions include Gabe in Next to Normal (Mixed Blood Theater), Tydeus in Will Power's The Seven Against Thebes (directed by Sarah Rasmussen), Winthrop in The Music Man (directed by Lear DeBessonet), and Richie Valens in The Buddy Holly Story.

As a theater creator, he was a Playwrights' Center Jerome Many Voices Fellow and, in collaboration with Tony Award winner Robert Rosen (Théâtre de la Jeune Lune), created and toured two solo pieces that celebrate the history of Puerto Rico: Juracán: The Jíbaro and his Three Sons, and Escúchame.

He has also appeared in feature films Nina of the Woods, Farmer of the Year, The Public Domain, and Death to Prom. TV credits include The Other Two (HBO), In an Instant (ABC), M@dabout TV, and Evine Live (ShopHQ)

In 2013, he received the coveted Twin Cities IVEY Award for his contributions to the theater community.