Salvador Placensia
Associate Production Manager
Salvador Castillo Placensia V (he/him), known professionally as Cinco, is a Philadelphia-based production manager and interdisciplinary artist whose work bridges immersive performance, stage technology, and puppetry. He’s eager to bring his collaborative, hands-on approach to the creative work unfolding at Azuka & Simpatico.
Cinco recently premiered his puppet show Valarie at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts. In Philadelphia, he served as assistant production manager at Pig Iron Theatre Company, co-produced How to Get to The River with New Paradise Laboratories and Janani Balasubramanian at the Academy of Natural Sciences, and worked as an installation artist at the recently opened Ministry of Awe.
Other notable collaborations include work with Manual Cinema's Frankenstein, Sister Sylvester's Brecht Forensics: Drinking Brecht, Janani Balasubramanian's Rogue Objects, New Paradise Laboratories' 707 Hazardous Moves.