Javier Hurtado
Department:
School of Liberal Arts | Performing Arts: Dance, Music & Theatre
Email:
jlh32@stmarys-ca.edu
Professional Overview
Dr. Javier Luis Hurtado
Dr. Javier 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 venues across the United States and extensively in the Bay Area. Javier is an alumnus of the Fornes Playwriting workshop, The Labyrinth Theatre Company’s Intensive Ensemble, a two-time Lambda Literary Fellow in Playwriting, and a proud member of the Dramatist Guild.
Published scholarship includes contributions to the 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, and the 2016 and 2017 Lamba Literary Anthology: Emerge. Dr. Hurtado has served on editorial teams for the Journal of American Drama and Theatre and Drama’s Special Issue: Milestones in Black Theatre, the College of Fellows of the American Theatre’s Gazette, and the University of Iowa Press’ Studies in Theater, History, and Culture book series.
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. Before joining the faculty at Saint Mary's College of California, Dr. Hurtado taught at UC Riverside, Emerson College, Tufts University, The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and Colorado State University at Fort Collins.