Elsa Menéndez, (Co-Artistic Director) is a writer, director, producer, & performer with Tricklock Company. She has spent the last 20 years working in theatre around the world. Her work includes teaching acting, clowning, and circus skills in Connecticut at Oddfellows Playhouse Youth Theatre (where she also served for 6 years as Program Manager and Associate Artistic Director), teaching children’s theatre in England, serving as an associate producer for BBC movie shorts, and teaching, writing, and directing in a men’s medium security prison (also in CT) which lead to the co-founding of BOOM!theatre, a theatre company within the prison comprised of individuals serving the longest sentences.

Elsa trained at Boston University School for the Arts, Smith College, and the University of New Mexico (where she earned her degree), as well as with Bread and Puppet Theater in Glover, Vermont and the May Hill Puppet Theatre near Gloucester, England. She has written and performed in many original shows including her most recent solo show The Last 3 minutes Of Happiness in Excavations (A Tricklock Company New Works Series) in the Revolutions International Theatre Festival 2004.

In addition to serving as Associate Artistic Director of Tricklock Company, Elsa is the Education Outreach Coordinator at the National Hispanic Cultural Center. She served for 4 years as an Associate Producer for UNM’s Words Afire Playwriting Festival and now works as an Associate Producer of Tricklock’s Revolutions International Theatre Festival.