Uploaded February 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
On 9 February 2026, TORCHES continues with a conversation with the wildly inventive creative director, designer, advocate, and producer Clint Ramos.
Clint Ramos is a creative director, designer, and producer. He is the current artist-in-residence at Lincoln Center and the producing creative director for Encores! at New York City Center. As a designer, he has designed over two hundred theater, opera, and dance productions. Recent designs include the Broadway productions of Maybe Happy Ending, KPOP, Slave Play, Eclipsed, and Torch Song. Film credits include Lingua Franca (production design) and RESPECT (costume design). His honors include a Tony award and six nominations for Best Costume Design of a Play, two Obie Awards, a Drama Desk, three Lucille Lortels, two American Theatre Wing Henry Hewes, Helen Hayes, USA Fellowship, and Ani Ng Dangal Philippine Presidential Medals for the Arts. He serves on the American Theatre Wing’s Advisory Board and is a co-founder of DesignAction. His lifelong advocacy is for an equitable landscape in theatre and film for people of color and for the rights of immigrants. He was born and raised in Cebu, the Philippines.
TORCHES: 30+ Years of Downtown Performance
As co-founder of HERE Arts Center—described by the Obie committee as “a lasting home for the weird and wild in downtown performance”—Kristin Marting spent the past three decades immersed in making, witnessing, and supporting groundbreaking performance in New York City. TORCHES is a much needed exploration of New York City’s unique and influential downtown performance world from the 1990s through the 2020s. Part memoir, part oral history, and part cultural inquiry, TORCHES offers in-depth video conversations with more than thirty of the most imaginative and boundary pushing artists working in the field today. TORCHES is both a living archive and an offering for the future. Learning about these artists and their work is not just looking back; it can ignite what’s coming next. They are not only inventors of form—they are keepers of community, fire-starters for our future. See more about the project on the TORCHES website at torchesnyc.org.
On 9 February 2026, TORCHES continues with a conversation with the wildly inventive creative director, designer, advocate, and producer Clint Ramos.
Clint Ramos is a creative director, designer, and producer. He is the current artist-in-residence at Lincoln Center and the producing creative director for Encores! at New York City Center. As a designer, he has designed over two hundred theater, opera, and dance productions. Recent designs include the Broadway productions of Maybe Happy Ending, KPOP, Slave Play, Eclipsed, and Torch Song. Film credits include Lingua Franca (production design) and RESPECT (costume design). His honors include a Tony award and six nominations for Best Costume Design of a Play, two Obie Awards, a Drama Desk, three Lucille Lortels, two American Theatre Wing Henry Hewes, Helen Hayes, USA Fellowship, and Ani Ng Dangal Philippine Presidential Medals for the Arts. He serves on the American Theatre Wing’s Advisory Board and is a co-founder of DesignAction. His lifelong advocacy is for an equitable landscape in theatre and film for people of color and for the rights of immigrants. He was born and raised in Cebu, the Philippines.
TORCHES: 30+ Years of Downtown Performance
As co-founder of HERE Arts Center—described by the Obie committee as “a lasting home for the weird and wild in downtown performance”—Kristin Marting spent the past three decades immersed in making, witnessing, and supporting groundbreaking performance in New York City. TORCHES is a much needed exploration of New York City’s unique and influential downtown performance world from the 1990s through the 2020s. Part memoir, part oral history, and part cultural inquiry, TORCHES offers in-depth video conversations with more than thirty of the most imaginative and boundary pushing artists working in the field today. TORCHES is both a living archive and an offering for the future. Learning about these artists and their work is not just looking back; it can ignite what’s coming next. They are not only inventors of form—they are keepers of community, fire-starters for our future. See more about the project on the TORCHES website at torchesnyc.org.
