Fur by Migdalia Cruz — Javier Luis Hurtado

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. Published scholarship includes 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.

In addition, 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 is currently working on a book about the history of queer Latinx performance in San José, CA, from the 1960s to 2020. Javier 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.