Headshot of Javier Hurtado behind a picture of the Virgen de Guadalupe

Dr. Javier Luis Hurtado

Assistant Professor ,

Headshot of Javier Hurtado behind a picture of the Virgen de Guadalupe
Departments:
School of Arts and Sciences | Performing Arts: Dance, Music & Theatre
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Professional Overview

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, Galería 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’s scholarship has been published in: Routledge Companion to Latinx Theatre and Performance, Theatre Annual, Southern Theater Magazine, Ecumenica: Performance and Religion, the Journal of American Theatre and Drama, Theatre Research International.

Dr. Hurtado is an alumnus of the Fornes Playwriting workshop, The Labyrinth Theatre Company’s Intensive Ensemble, a two-time Lambda Literary Fellow, a proud member of the Dramatist Guild, and serves as the Resident Scholar at Teatro Visión in San Jose.

MFA, Writing for Performance from the University of California, Riverside
Ph.D., Theatre and Performance Studies from Tufts University.

 

Education

Ph.D., Theatre and Performance Studies from Tufts University.
MFA, Writing for Performance from the University of California, Riverside