Culture Clash is Richard Montoya, Ric Salinas, and Herbert Siguenza. Formed in 1984, Culture Clash fills a unique roll in American theatre. Hailed as “the Marx Brothers meet the Rolling Stones” by American Theatre Magazine, these acclaimed cultural anthropologists have been digging deep into the psyche of America’s evolving melting pot, creating memorable new plays and characters. Since their inception in San Francisco’s Mission District, these social and political satirists have written over 15 plays.

Recently celebrating their 20 year anniversary, they have become the most prominent Chicano/Latino performance troupe in the country. Their work has ranged from sketch comedy to an adaptation of Aristophanes, to the full length play Chavez Ravine, to co-writing Frank Loesser’s long lost musical Señor Discretion Himself based on a story by the legendary Bud Schulberg.

Since 1995, Culture Clash has focused on site-specific theatre, weaving personal narratives culled from interviews into an ongoing dramatic tapestry. Theatres from Miami, D.C., New York, San Diego, Berkeley, and San Francisco have commissioned Culture Clash to create performance pieces specifically for their cities.

Culture Clash has performed at Lincoln Center, the Kennedy Center, Off Broadway, at dozens of repertory theatres throughout the country, and at universities and colleges too numerous to name. They recently were invited to perform at the HBO Comedy Festival in Aspen with the Mark Taper Forum commissioned play Chavez Ravine, which was the fifth highest grossing production in the Taper’s 35 year history.

Their next commissions include plays for the Yale Repertory Theatre, the Mark Taper Forum, the Berkeley Repertory Theatre, and the La Jolla Playhouse.

Culture Clash has written four screenplays, two books of plays for Theater Communications Group, and have pioneered the television landscape for Latinos and Irish Americans!