Cacumen Producciones

Theatre production company · Mexico City · since 2012

Theatre does not end on the stage: it lives on in the imagination.

Comedy, drama and farce by Mexican and international playwrights, with leading casts and sold-out runs.

Cacumen Producciones

Cacumen Producciones is an independent theatre production company founded by Tizoc Arroyo. It has premiered more than ten plays at Teatro El Granero, Foro Lucerna, Teatro El Milagro and Centro Cultural Helénico, in coproduction with Mexico’s National Institute of Fine Arts (INBAL) and companies from Mexico and Quebec.

A theatre production company founded in 2012, devoted to developing artistic projects that become stage productions. It brings together a range of theatre collectives while holding to the highest standards of quality, with the aim of contributing to the growth of Mexican theatre.

  • +10Plays premiered
  • 2012Founded
  • MiamiInternational Hispanic Theatre Festival

Our productions

Productions

Coming soon

Upcoming premieres

Negocios Opening 2027

Negocios

Written and directed by Alfonso Cárcamo. A comedy about two political fixers who will negotiate anything.

Made possible by Mexico’s EFIARTES tax incentive.

Cómo combatir la soledad Opening 2027

Cómo combatir la soledad

By Neil LaBute. Directed by Ana Laura Calderón. Spanish translation by Luis Lesher.

Made possible by Mexico’s EFIARTES tax incentive.

In development

Sobre mis pasos In development

Sobre mis pasos

Documentary biodrama directed by Jorge Vargas. Foro La Gruta, Centro Cultural Helénico.

Film

Coproduction · Awaiting release

Diorama

Independent feature film directed by Gustavo Crivilone.

Team

Tizoc Arroyo

Tizoc Arroyo

Founder and artistic director

Actor trained at the Centro Universitario de Teatro of UNAM. He founded Cacumen Producciones in 2012 and has run it ever since. El panfleto del rey y su lacayo, by Cutberto López, played for four years and represented Mexico at the 29th International Hispanic Theatre Festival of Miami. In 2026 he produced Las agujas dementes, by Jorge Volpi, directed by Benjamín Cann, at Teatro El Granero.

As an actor, his credits include more than 20 feature films, more than 40 stage productions and 17 television productions.

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Alicia Martínez

Alicia Martínez

Managing director

Actress and arts manager, trained at the Centro Universitario de Teatro of UNAM. On stage she has worked with Mercedes de la Cruz, Juliana Faesler, Clarissa Malheiros, José Ramón Enríquez, Bruno Bert, Gabriela Lozano, Ana Francis Mor, Alfonso Cárcamo, Alberto Lomnitz, Antonio Rojas, José Caballero and Antonio Peñúñuri, and with Spanish director Guillermo Heras. On television she appeared in the series Un buen divorcio, Pacto de Sangre and Pacto de Silencio.

As an arts manager she has worked at Centro Cultural Helénico, Conaculta, the National Institute of Fine Arts and Literature (INBAL), the National Fund for Culture and the Arts (FONCA), Teatro UNAM and as manager of Teatro Jorge Negrete. She is currently Director of Cultural Outreach at the Mexico City Ministry of Culture.

Gallery

On stage

Press

In the press

Las agujas dementes 2026

La comedia de las acotaciones 2026

Madrinas 2025

Casa de mascotas 2022

El No Show México 2019

Fuimos héroes 2019

Instinto 2017

Run at Teatro El Galeón, July 20 to September 10, 2017: 20 outlets at the press conference, 31 interviews and 40 articles. Coverage included Reforma, Televisa Espectáculos (Hoy), Proceso, La Jornada, El Universal, Gatopardo, Canal 22 and Aristegui Noticias.

El ornitorrinco 2016

La monarquía casi perfecta 2015

El panfleto del rey y su lacayo 2013

Estudio sobre el viento 2013

Collaborators

They have worked with us

Playwrights

Jorge Volpi, Gerardo Mancebo del Castillo, Alfonso Cárcamo, Micah Schraft, Bárbara Colio, Cutberto López, José Alberto Gallardo, Neil LaBute, Alexandre Fecteau and Humberto Robles

Directors

Benjamín Cann, Alfonso Cárcamo, Antonio Castro, Angélica Rogel, Bárbara Colio, José Alberto Gallardo, Alexandre Fecteau, Ana Laura Calderón, Jorge Vargas and Juan Ríos

Cast

Mónica Huarte, Alejandro Calva, Paulina Treviño, Ximena Romo Mercado, Ximena Ayala, Misha Arias de la Cantolla, Alicia Martínez, Patricia Yáñez, Carmen Ramos, Pedro Mira and Tizoc Arroyo

Creative team

Edyta Rzewuska, Tareke Ortiz, Adriana Olivera, Juan José Rodríguez, David Flores Rubio and Roberto Blenda

Translation

Luis Lesher

Resident director

Miguel Santa Rita

Coproducers and institutions

INBAL National Theatre Coordination, Centro Cultural Helénico, El Ingenio del Caldero, Barco-Drama Producciones, Universidad de Sonora, UAM and the Mexico City Theatre System

Instagram

Follow us

@cacumenprodu

Contact

Production and booking

[email protected]
Poster for La comedia de las acotaciones

2026 · Farce

La comedia de las acotaciones

o la farsa trágica de unos ojos ajenos a Edipo (or the tragic farce of some eyes foreign to Oedipus)

By Gerardo Mancebo del Castillo · Directed by Alfonso Cárcamo

An unbridled farce by Querétaro playwright Gerardo Mancebo del Castillo (1970-2000): lost characters chasing answers that may not exist, somewhere between mythology, comics and the absurd.

Cast
Mónica Huarte, Alicia Martínez, Patricia Yáñez, Carmen Ramos and Pedro Mira
Sound design
Tareke Ortiz
Costumes
Adriana Olivera
Run
Foro La Gruta, Centro Cultural Helénico, through June 2026

Theatre production made with the tax incentive of Article 190 of Mexico’s Income Tax Law (EFIARTES).

Poster for Las agujas dementes

2026 · Drama

Las agujas dementes

By Jorge Volpi · Directed by Benjamín Cann

England, the 1960s. Sylvia Plath, Ted Hughes, Assia Wevill and David Wevill: four lives shot through with poetry, desire and a tragedy still argued over today.

“Volpi’s writing is violent and passionate.”Roberto Sosa, Cartelera de Teatro

Sold out

Cast
Paulina Treviño, Tizoc Arroyo, Ximena Romo Mercado and Misha Arias de la Cantolla
Resident director
Miguel Santa Rita
Coproduction
Cacumen Producciones and INBAL National Theatre Coordination
Run
Teatro El Granero, Centro Cultural del Bosque, March to May 2026

Theatre production made with the tax incentive of Article 190 of Mexico’s Income Tax Law (EFIARTES).

Poster for Madrinas

2025 · Dark comedy

Madrinas

Written and directed by Alfonso Cárcamo

Two lifelong friends from Chalco are widowed and decide to impose their own order. A comedy about friendship and power, with original songs.

Original music
Juan José Rodríguez
Run
Teatro El Milagro, through November 9, 2025
Poster for Casa de mascotas

2022 · Comedy-drama

Casa de mascotas

By Micah Schraft · Directed by Antonio Castro

Two couples have placed their stability in the paws of their dogs. When one of the dogs goes missing, the secrets start coming out.

Sold out

Cast
Mónica Huarte, Alejandro Calva, Ximena Ayala and Tizoc Arroyo
Set and costume design
Edyta Rzewuska
Run
Foro Lucerna, 2022
Photography
David Flores Rubio

Theatre production made with the tax incentive of Article 190 of Mexico’s Income Tax Law (EFIARTES).

Poster for El No Show México

2019 · 2020

El No Show México

By Alexandre Fecteau, Hubert Lemire, François Bernier and the cast · Directed by Alexandre Fecteau

Coproduction
Quebec–Mexico collaboration: El Ingenio del Caldero, Cacumen Producciones and Centro Cultural Helénico

Theatre production made with the tax incentive of Article 190 of Mexico’s Income Tax Law (EFIARTES).

Poster for Fuimos héroes

2019

Fuimos héroes

By Alfonso Cárcamo · Directed by Antonio Castro

Coproduction
Cacumen Producciones and Centro Cultural Helénico
Photography
Roberto Blenda

Theatre production made with the tax incentive of Article 190 of Mexico’s Income Tax Law (EFIARTES).

Poster for Instinto

2017 · 2019

Instinto

Written and directed by Bárbara Colio

Coproduction
Barco-Drama Producciones, Cacumen Producciones and INBAL
Runs
Teatro El Galeón, two runs

Theatre production made with the tax incentive of Article 190 of Mexico’s Income Tax Law (EFIARTES).

Full-performance video available to programmers at [email protected]

Poster for El ornitorrinco

2016 · Coproduction

El ornitorrinco

By Humberto Robles · Directed by Juan Ríos

Cast
Carla Hernández, Alberto Agnesi, Andrés Zuno and Eugenio Bartilotti
Producers
Tizoc Arroyo, Alberto Agnesi and Bernardo Tamez
Run
Teatro NH, November 5 to December 25, 2016

Theatre production made with the tax incentive of Article 190 of Mexico’s Income Tax Law (EFITEATRO).

Poster for La monarquía casi perfecta, the new version of El panfleto del rey y su lacayo

2012 – 2016

El panfleto del rey y su lacayo

By Cutberto López · Directed by Angélica Rogel

Four years on the boards. It represented Mexico at the 29th International Hispanic Theatre Festival of Miami. It was also staged under the title La monarquía casi perfecta.

With the support of
INBAL, Universidad de Sonora, UAM, Mexico City Theatre System, Foro Lucerna and Foro Shakespeare

Theatre production made with the tax incentive of Article 190 of Mexico’s Income Tax Law (EFIARTES).

Poster for Estudio sobre el viento

2013

Estudio sobre el viento

Written and directed by José Alberto Gallardo

Coproduction
Cacumen Producciones and INBAL National Theatre Coordination

Full-performance video available to programmers at [email protected]

Opening 2027

Negocios

Written and directed by Alfonso Cárcamo

Opening 2027

Cómo combatir la soledad

By Neil LaBute · Directed by Ana Laura Calderón · Spanish translation by Luis Lesher

In development

Sobre mis pasos

Documentary biodrama directed by Jorge Vargas