About me
Dr. Javier Luis Hurtado is a playwright, director, and performance historian. Over the past twenty years, Javier’s plays and performance work have been produced and developed at AS220 (Providence, RI), Emerson Stage (Boston, MA), Tufts University (Medford, MA), The Culver Center for the Arts(Riverside, CA), Teatro Alebrijes (San José, CA), El Teatro Campesino (San Juan Bautista, CA), through the National Queer Arts Festival, SOMArts, Galeria De La Raza, and Brava Theatre Center (San Francisco, CA) and at the Goodman Theater (Chicago, IL), La Peña Cultural Center (Berkeley, CA), and Chicago Dramatists. Javier is an alumnus of the Fornes Playwriting workshop, The Labyrinth Theatre Company’s Intensive Ensemble, a two-time Lambda Literary Fellow, and a proud member of the Dramatist Guild.
He earned an MFA in Writing for Performance from the University of California, Riverside, and a Ph.D. in Theatre and Performance Studies from Tufts University and is a faculty member at Saint Mary's College of California in Moraga.
