Roberto Gutièrrez Varea

Roberto G. Varea's (he/his/him) research and creative work focuses on live performance as means of resistance and peacebuilding in the context of social conflict and state violence. His stage work in the United States includes directing plays and stage projects, founding two community-based companies, Soapstone Theatre Company, with formerly incarcerated men and women survivors of violent crime, and El Teatro Jornalero!, with Latin American immigrant workers, co-founding the latine performance collective Secos & Mojados, and being a founding member of SF-based La Lengua Teatro en Español. He is a regular contributor to journals in performance and peacebuilding, and co-editor and co-author of the two-volume anthology "Acting Together: Performance and the Creative Transformation of Conflict" (New Village Press). Roberto is an Excecutive Board Member of Galeria de la Raza (SF), and serves on the Advisory Boards of Golden Thread Productions (SF), and The Yerba Buena Gardens Festiva (SF). Roberto is co-founder of the Performing Arts and Social Justice and Critical Diversity Studies Programs at the University of San Francisco.

• Live performance as means of resistance and peacebuilding in the context of social conflict and state violence

• Program Director, Latin American Studies
• Co-Director, Center for Latina/o Studies in the Americas (CELASA)
• Founding Faculty of the Department of Performing Arts & Performing Arts and Social Justice Major, USF
• Founding Faculty of the Department of Performing Arts & Performing Arts and Social Justice Major, USF
• Founding artistic director of Soapstone Theatre Company
• Founding artistic director of El Teatro Jornalero!
• Member of the Steering Committee of Theater Without Borders

• Cohen, C., & Varea, R. (2011). Acting Together: Performance and the creative transformation of conflict. Oakland, CA: New Village Press.