In 2008, Dixon founded the research group Teatro Cuatro Mundos, dedicated to the investigation of post-colonial playwrights, and canonical contemporary and classical playwrights unknown in the Spanish-speaking world. In both cases there is also an emphasis on playwrights for women. The first line of research is to develop the work at the Pacific Coast Workshop for Young Artists in Buenaventura (Colombia's New Orleans), an extended outreach program created by the Theatre Department of the Universidad del Valle in 2004, in conjunction with the Ministry of Culture and the Buenaventura Branch of Univalle. The TCM group has staged two successful productions under the direction of Manuel Viveros, Colombian adaptations of Beef, no Chicken by Derek Walcott, and The Piano Lesson by August Wilson. This last production has been invited to the XII Festival Iberoamericano de Teatro in Bogotá in 2010.
The second line of research is developed in the Professional Cycle of the Theatre Department, and began with a successful production of Alexander Ostrovsky's XIX century musical comedy, Poverty is no Crime.
Productions with the Young Artists' Workshop
The Piano Lesson by August Wilson. Directed by Manuel Viveros
Beef, no Chicken by Derek Walcott. Directed by Manuel Viveros
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