[3] Along with his wife, Cándido Tirado established a touring company that takes social issues to schools called Educational Play Productions.
Tirado has also directed a couple of plays written by Rivera including The Fall of Rafael Trujillo and Julia de Burgos: Child of Water.
[6] Other plays Tirado has directed include Growing up Gonzales, Within the Skin of Saints, and his very own Fish Men, First Class, Momma’s Boyz, and so on.
[1] Tirado's publications are as follows: The Chess Plays, Fish Men and King Without a Castle: NoPassport, First Class: Arte Publico Recent Puerto Rican Theater, Five Plays from New York; Penguin, Mentor Books; Some People Have All the Luck: Nuestro New York: An Anthology of Puerto Rican Playwrights; Ilka-The Dream: Positive/Negative – Women of color and HIV and AIDS, Aunt Lute Publishers.
[8] Some of Tirado's works include When Natural Calls, Abuelo, The Missing Colors of the Rainbow, Hey There Black Cat, and La Canción.