Laurencio Carlos Ruiz

State College, PA

July 10, 2008 – August 12, 2008

June 14, 2011 - July 3, 2011

The fifth of six children, he grew up in a traditional working-class Catholic family, and his education was in public schools. As a visual and performance artist, as a puppeteer, designer, and photographer, he is coming back into the international eye with his new Action Figure Drama.Ruiz received his B.A. in Graphic Design from the Metropolitan Autonomous University (Mexico City, 1992) and a M.F.A. in Scenic Design from Penn State University (2001). A free-lance artists and designer, and professor of Theatre and Integrative Arts at Penn State University Altoona, he resides with the love of his life Roselyn in State College PA, since 1996.

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