Javier González
Javier Antonio González is a playwright, director, and filmmaker who has served as the artistic director of CABORCA since its founding in 2009.
Javier González
Some of their authorial work with the company includes: Lying Lydia Festival Pueblos Escena, Ciego de Ávila, Cuba; Distant Star (adapted from Roberto Bolaño’s novel) Abrons, NYC; Zoetrope (Festival de Teatro Puertorriqueño del ICP) ; Open up, Hadrian (Magic Futurebox). In 2016, they directed their original translation of A Midsummer Night’s Dream in San Juan, Puerto Rico for Teatro en el Parque. Their work has been published in the anthologies, Plays and Playwrights 2011 (New York Theatre Experience), Encuentro: Latine Performance for the New American Theater (Northwestern University Press), and in the journals Revista Conjunto (Casa de las Américas, Havana), Revista Los Bárbaros (Spain) and The Puerto Rico Review. Javier holds a BA from the University of Puerto Rico and an MFA from Columbia University School of the Arts. Their approach to the theater has been highly influenced by Peter Brook, Tantztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch, Arístides Vargas & Grupo de Teatro Malayerba, Rosa Luisa Márquez, Viveca Vázquez & Taller de Otra Cosa, Anne Bogart & SITI Company, Liz LeCompte & The Wooster Group, and the writings of Constantin Stanislavsky and Naomi Klein. Upcoming: Rubalee ASAP Residency at Pregones, NYC.