Rene Moreno

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Rene was born in Dallas on May 25 1959 to Finees Moreno and Myriam Garza Moreno He attended Booker T Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts and studied theater dance and music at Southern Methodist University He was gifted as an actor director and musician In the 1980s he moved to New York working in regional theater and on and offBroadway He was a member of SDC Stage Directors and Choreographers Society and an Artistic Associate with Shakespeare Dallas as well as an Affiliated Artist with the Oklahoma City Repertory Theatre Rene staged plays at all of DFWs major professional theaters and at most of its smaller ones directing for WaterTower Theatre Stage West Contemporary Theatre of Dallas Theatre Three Dallas Theater Center Shakespeare Dallas WingSpan and many others He won many DallasFort Worth Theater Critics Forum awards He was frequently honored with Best Director awards and taught classes and taught workshops at many colleges universities and high schools In 1991 while performing in Federico GarcΓa Lorcas Yerma at Arena Stage in Washington DC he fell five floors out of a hotel window and was paralyzed from the waist down He returned to Dallas for rehabilitation and received his MFA in directing from Southern Methodist University in 2001 Moreno had surgery on March 20 2017 and moved to rehab over the weekend suffering from heart trouble followed by kidney and liver failure He died from heart failure at the Baylor Medical Center in Dallas Texas at the age of 57
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