Bio
Reynaldo Pacheco was born and raised in La Paz, Bolivia. At 13, he joined a theatre group at La Salle High School under the direction of Franz Conchari. While studying abroad in Brilliant, Ohio at the age of 17, he produced his own play and joined the musical theatre group at Jefferson County Christian School. He went on to the Universidad Catolica Boliviana to study business and also join an acting troup. He later joined La rodilla del telon, a gypsy troup of street performers on the colonial side of La Paz, and later became one of the lead performers at the Philharmonic of La Paz, Bolivia. Realizing that his passion was overpowering his business studies, he left Bolivia and started his liberal education at Wabash College in Indiana, USA, where he graduated with a BFA in French and theatre with a political science minor.
While a student at Wabash, Pacheco traveled abroad to study film, acting and photography at the Nanterre Universite and Sorbonne Universite. He later studied theatre history and writing in a month inmersion trip to London and Ecuador.
Pacheco has lived in Chiapas and Oaxaca, Mexico as a teacher and director for the Mayan Theatre Troup of SNA Tz Bajom, where he met Zapatista leaders and traveled around the south with his production trabajadores del otro mundo.
In 2006, he was one of ten students accepted to the Masters of Fine Arts in Acting Program at the University of Southern California, where he graduated in 2009.
Pacheco is a working actor in Los Angeles, California.