Javier Luis Hurtado

Javier Luis Hurtado

Javier is a Lambda Literary Fellow in Playwriting, a GLUCK Foundation Theater Fellow, an alumnus of the NALAC Leadership Academy and the Maria Irene Fornés Playwriting Workshop. Javier’s plays and other performance work has been produced by El Teatro Campesino, The National Queer Arts Festival, The Barbara and Art Culver Center, UC Riverside, SOMArts, and AS220, Brava Theater Center and Tufts University. Javier...
Javier is a Lambda Literary Fellow in Playwriting, a GLUCK Foundation Theater Fellow, an alumnus of the NALAC Leadership Academy and the Maria Irene Fornés Playwriting Workshop. Javier’s plays and other performance work has been produced by El Teatro Campesino, The National Queer Arts Festival, The Barbara and Art Culver Center, UC Riverside, SOMArts, and AS220, Brava Theater Center and Tufts University. Javier holds an MFA in Creative Writing and Writing for the Performing Arts from the University of California, Riverside

Plays

  • Housewarming by Javier Luis Hurtado
    Cast: 
    7
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    Genre: comedy, dark comedy + 4 more
    Genre: comedy, dark comedy, fable/folktale, fantasy, farce, horror
    A new couple has just moved into their rural dream home. To celebrate, they cook a big meal and invite their neighbors over for a housewarming party! They quickly realize that their neighbors hate each other, but no one can leave the party because their cooking has attracted the attention of an uninvited family of creatures who have surrounded the house waiting for their meal. One-by-one the guests try to...
    A new couple has just moved into their rural dream home. To celebrate, they cook a big meal and invite their neighbors over for a housewarming party! They quickly realize that their neighbors hate each other, but no one can leave the party because their cooking has attracted the attention of an uninvited family of creatures who have surrounded the house waiting for their meal. One-by-one the guests try to escape. Everyone ends up dead in this delicious comedy about making new friends.
  • Rain Moth Song. by Javier Luis Hurtado
    Cast: 
    4
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    Genre: dark comedy, experimental + 2 more
    Genre: dark comedy, experimental, fable/folktale, fantasy
    A young, conservative, business executive looking for escape rents a room from an eccentric woman on a strange island full of tiny birds.
  • El Niño by Javier Luis Hurtado
    Cast: 
    4
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    Genre: adaptation, drama + 1 more
    Genre: adaptation, drama, tragedy
    A Latinx adaptation of Ibsen's Ghosts set in California.
  • Broken Roux by Javier Luis Hurtado
    Cast: 
    6
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    Genre: dark comedy, experimental + 1 more
    Genre: dark comedy, experimental, fantasy
    A Dominatrix haunts a chefs dreams.
  • Hope in the Mission by Javier Luis Hurtado
    Cast: 
    13–75
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    Genre: young audiences
    Genre: young audiences
    Hope and the Mission is a bilingual coming-of-age story revolving around the young character Hope whose Mission District family finds themselves on the sidelines of a changing neighborhood and at odds with each other over generational differences. Alongside the theme of gentrification, the play examines cultural identity and gender fluidity through song, dance, and humor.
  • By The River by Javier Luis Hurtado
    Cast: 
    3
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    Genre: comedy, dark comedy + 2 more
    Genre: comedy, dark comedy, farce, parody/spoof
    La Llorona breaks up with her long time lover, the River after her tears dry up and she has to make a choice to stay and keep killing or leave and let her lover die.
  • Pride Husband by Javier Luis Hurtado
    Cast: 
    4
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    Genre: comedy, docudrama/historic + 2 more
    Genre: comedy, docudrama/historic, farce, romantic comedy
    Two men who have only connmuniacted via voicemail meet up for the first time at Gay Pride and things get messy.