I’m William Ruiz Morales, a dramaturg, artist, and cultural strategist based in Los Angeles and New York. I accompany artists and cultural organizations through creation, production, and organizational development, drawing from dramaturgical practice and Caribbean ways of knowing.
The Practice
Ouow Studio is rooted in knowledge lineages that offer alternatives to dominant work culture: relational, anti-extractive, and grounded in the full complexity of human experience.
The practice begins with a simple observation: how we work — our structures, our language, our rhythms — either reflects or contradicts our values. Most artists and cultural organizations sense this gap. Few have the time or language to address it.
We accompany them through creation, production, organizational development, and the building of new initiatives, committing to the slow, invisible work that actually sustains things over time.
This is especially relevant for cultural organizations, artist collectives, and initiatives working with communities whose knowledge and leadership have been historically underrepresented in institutional life.
PROJECTS_
LiveARC: Los Angeles. May 2026
I am currently producing two free full-day gatherings on May 30 and 31, for artists to connect, learn, and build sustainable practices. Produced in partnership with the City of Santa Monica Cultural Affairs and the Artist Resource Collective.
Flight Ways / The Color Question
I am producing and directing a short documentary tracing a century of migration, silence, and ideological rupture through one Cuban family, and the republication of Bernardo Ruiz Suárez’s 1922 book The Color Question in the Two Americas, returned to Spanish for the first time.
Living Away · New York & Miami, 2017–2022
Director & Curator
A live arts initiative rooted in immigrant experiences, presenting artist-led work and cross-city exchange across New York and Miami. Editions included a Brooklyn festival at 17 Frost Gallery and a pandemic-era online program bringing together artists from across the world to imagine work for a time of isolation. Living Away treated the festival not as a showcase but as a site of gathering, where diasporic and experimental practices could enter into dialogue, and where distance itself became a creative condition.
Espacios Ibsen · Havana, 2013–2017
Creative Producer & Lead Curator
A Cuban–Norwegian theatre platform and festival dedicated to fostering experimental voices and international exchange in live arts. For five consecutive years, Espacios Ibsen activated multiple Havana venues with performances, exhibitions, labs, and public dialogues, offering a rare independent space for artistic and political experimentation on the island. The festival ran alongside the Laboratorio Ibsen, a research-driven platform for open showings and socio-aesthetic investigation. Partners included the Embassy of Norway in Cuba, the Consejo Nacional de las Artes Escénicas, Centro Cultural Bertolt Brecht, and Fundación Ludwig de Cuba.
DRAMATURGY_
Co-commissioned by PSNY, PICA, MACLA, and REDCAT.
NEWS_
NET Create + Activate: Cohort 2. Joined the Network of Ensemble Theaters’ yearlong artistic-exchange circle for BIPOC ensemble artists, gathering monthly to share practice, support one another, and imagine new forms of collaboration.
IETM Global Connect 2026. Joining performing arts leaders from around the world in online sessions, a new podcast series, and the 2026 IETM Plenary Meeting in Oulu, Finland.
