JoAnn and Rupert Reyes Collection

This collection contains the professional papers of Rupert Reyes and JoAnn Carreon-Reyes, documenting Rupert's work as a playwright and as artistic director of Teatro Vivo and JoAnn's work as executive director of Teatro Vivo, the Austin-based bilingual theater company that they founded and ran from 2000 to 2016. The Reyes' retired from their leadership of Teatro Vivo in 2016, and the company is still active to date. Therefore, the documents representing Rupert and JoAnn's professional work are very similar to the documents created during their tenure at Teatro Vivo. This overlap highlights the parallel nature of the roles, activities, and events that each series of materials represents.

The collection is arranged in five series: Rupert Reyes and JoAnn Carreon-Reyes Professional Materials, Teatro Vivo Organizational Materials, Teatro Vivo Theatrical Materials, Audiovisual Materials, and Oversize Material.

The Rupert Reyes and JoAnn Carreon-Reyes Professional Materials series documents the Reyeses' professional activities outside of Teatro Vivo. The bulk of the Writings subseries consists of Rupert Reyes's unproduced scripts, as well as scripts that Reyes wrote prior to the formation of Teatro Vivo. The Press, Marketing, and Communications subseries contains publicity materials and press clippings for non-Teatro Vivo productions involving the Reyeses, professional correspondence, and documentation of awards and recognition given personally to JoAnn or Rupert. The files are arranged chronologically.

The Teatro Vivo Organizational Materials series documents Teatro Vivo's business operations and reflect JoAnn Carreon-Reyes' role as executive director. It is arranged in four subseries, with folders organized chronologically within each. The Grant Applications and Tax Records subseries contains materials from 2000 to 2013 that relate to the organization's tax accounting and 501(c)3 nonprofit status, as well as to its funding efforts via grant applications that describe its cultural merit and engagement with Austin's Latinx community. The Contracts subseries contains facility rental and personnel contracts that date from 2001 to 2016 and document Teatro Vivo's connection to actors, industry professionals, and venues of the local theater scene. The Expenses and Revenue subseries contain records of purchases, donations, ticket sales, and other financial transactions that date from 2000 to 2012. Lastly, the Press, Marketing, and Communications subseries contain marketing and communication materials that date from 2001 to 2015, and specifically relate to the Teatro Vivo organization as a whole, as opposed to individual productions.

The Teatro Vivo Theatrical Materials series contains documentation of productions staged by the Teatro Vivo theater company and materials related to each of those theatrical productions. Nearly the entirety of the subseries Stagecraft Materials consists of heavily annotated script with in-depth production and staging notes. The subseries Press and Marketing contains marketing materials for specific productions, marketing materials for the Teatro Vivo theatrical season, and press materials for and reviews of Teatro Vivo productions. The subseries Awards and Recognition contains awards and correspondence recognizing the artistic and community-minded contributions that the Reyeses and the theater company made in Austin. Each subseries is subdivided by the production title, with the exception of some general files, and all are organized chronologically.

The Audiovisual Materials series is organized by format. The Betacam Tapes subseries contains video recordings of an undated production of Petra's Pecado. The CDs subseries contains a wide variety of materials, including digital photo albums, sound cues, and musical recordings, most of which are related to various Teatro Vivo productions from 2003 to 2011. The DATs, DVDs, Hi-8 Tapes, MiniDVs, and VHS Tapes subseries mainly contain video recordings related to various productions from 1998 to 2013, including recordings of live performances, recordings of rehearsals, and audition tapes. These subseries also contain some materials that relate to the organizational duties of Teatro Vivo, such as a recording of a fundraiser and a copy of a commercial for a production of Petra's Pecado. The Hi-8 Tapes subseries includes a few recordings of Reyes family vacations and holiday celebrations.

The Oversize Material series contains large posters that have been separated from the rest of the collection in order to be stored in oversized archival boxes. These materials advertise Teatro Vivo productions from May 2000 to April 2016. There is also an assortment of posters advertising performances of works by Rupert Reyes that were produced by other Latinx theater companies, prior to the founding of Teatro Vivo. These early posters advertise the earliest productions of Petra's Pecado and Petra's Cuento in 1998. The series also includes a stage drawing for Petra's Sueño, clippings related to grant support materials, and a hand-made poster titled "Petra's Tortillas y Mas" with signatures from different people.