Violeta Luna - Actress / Performance Artist
Violeta Luna obtained her graduate degree in Acting from the Centro Universitario de Teatro in Mexico City. In 1995 she founded Grande y Pequeño (Big and Small), an all-women theatre company that focuses on developing original works and experimental stagings of classical theater. Luna has toured her work extensively throughout Mexico, and has also performed and taught workshops in Cuba, Argentina, Peru, Brazil, Spain, France, Portugal, Norway, Egypt, and the United States, among other locations. She works in community-centered projects such as Xochimilco, in Mexico, and with incarcerated and recently arrived immigrant women in San Francisco. Since 1998, she has been an associate artist of La Pocha Nostra, the San Francisco-based interdisciplinary performance-collective led by Guillermo Gomez Peña. In San Francisco, she is also the associate director of El Teatro Jornalero!, a theater company that brings the voice of Latin American immigrant workers to the stage, and the performance collective Secos & Mojados. Her current work explores the relationship between theater, performance, and community engagement.

David Molina - Composer/Musician/Sound Designer/Recording engineer
For the past ten years, Molina has been performing, composing, and designing sound for theater, dance, film, radio, installation, and multimedia productions. Since he was seven, Molina has performed various styles of music on many instruments, in many bands and ensemble formations. He performed and studied classical guitar for twelve years, until he discovered the art of recording and scoring music for theater and dance. Companies he has worked with include: A Traveling Jewish Theatre, Magic Theatre, American Conservatory Theatre, Brava! Theatre, Yerba Buena Center For the Performing Arts, The Lab, La Pocha Nostra, Sonoma State University, 94.1 KPFA, 90.3 KUSF, University of San Francisco, Oakland Museum, Soap Stone Theatre Company, Encore, Lorraine Hansberry, and El Teatro Jornalero!, Marin Theatre company, Teatro Esperanza, Campo Santo, and Intersection for the Arts. Molina performs with the experimental, electro-acoustic band Transient, and has performed at the 2005 International Loop Festival, as well as the Chapel of Chimes in the 2005 Winter solstice concert.  He has also performed with Free Jazz musicians Marco Eneidi and John Ingle. Molina recently returned from Peru where he toured with performance artist Violeta Luna.  While there, he recorded and performed with La Mente (Descabellado Records), El Paso (Dorog Records), Via 149, and Dj Nelson. He is in the process of releasing his first solo album titled "Al Fin Estoy Aqui," and a ten-year retrospective album titled "Passing Thoughts Scraping Red Skys."

Víctor D. Cartagena - Visual Artist
Salvadoran-born Víctor D. Cartagena is a multi-disciplinary visual artist based in San Francisco. Cartagena has exhibited his work in solo and group exhibitions in the US and internationally, including Intersection for the Arts, Ampersand International Arts, Catharine Clark Gallery, University Art Museum at UC Berkeley, Sonoma Museum of Visual Arts, Oakland Museum, MACLA/Center for Latino Arts, 18th Street Arts Complex, Art LA, San Francisco Photo and New York Photo, and at Stephen Cohen Gallery in LA. Internationally, his work has been presented in Mexico, Japan, El Salvador, Belarus, Ecuador, and Greece. Cartagena received a Wallace Alexander Gerbode Foundation 2001 Visual Arts Purchase Award, the competitive Art Council (ARTADIA) award in 2000, Pacific Prints awards in 1996 and 2000, a Rockefeller grant with Octavio Solis and Larry Reed, a Visions from the New California Residency Grant in 2004, and a Cultural Arts Equity grant from the San Francisco Arts Commission in 2005. Cartagena is represented by the Stephen Cohen Gallery in Los Angeles, and in the TinT Gallery in Thessaloniki, Greece. www.victorcartagena.net

Roberto Gutiérrez Varea - Director
Roberto Gutiérrez Varea began his career in theater in his native city of Córdoba, Argentina. His research and creative work focuses on live performance as a means of resistance and peace-building in the context of social conflict and state violence. He has directed numerous productions and workshops associated with new play development, particularly with Latino-Chicano artists in the United States, where credits include premieres of works by Cherríe Moraga, Migdalia Cruz, José Rivera, and Ariel Dorfman, among others. Gutiérrez Varea is the founding artistic director of Soapstone Theatre Company, a collective of male ex-offenders and women survivors of violent crime, and of El Teatro Jornalero!, a performance company that brings the voice of Latin American immigrant workers to the stage. He is an Associate Professor of Theater at the University of San Francisco, where he is Chair of the Performing Arts and Social Justice Major, and of the Performing Arts Department. He also teaches drama to incarcerated women at the San Francisco County Jail's Sisters Project. He is an associate editor of Peace Review, an international journal on peace and justice studies published by Routledge Press. He also guest-edited the “Borders” issue of e-misférica, the journal of performance and politics published by the Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics. He is a member of the San Francisco-based performance collective Secos & Mojados.

Antigone Trimis - Dramaturg
Antigone Trimis is the Implementation Manager of San Francisco Unified School District’s groundbreaking Arts Education Master Plan.  Known for her distinguished work in arts and education, Ms. Trimis served as art consultant and curriculum specialist for the SFUSD's federal Arts-in-the-City grant (2001-2004), and was the Director of Outreach and Recruitment for SFUSD’s School of the Arts High School from 2004 to 2006.  She has worked extensively with numerous arts and arts education organizations including the Magic Theatre, World Arts West (producer of the San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival and People Like Me), the San Francisco Playwrights Foundation, and the Engineers Alliance for the Arts, serving in both artistic and administrative positions.  Ms. Trimis has been a TCG observership grant recipient (Harvard Graduate School of Education/Project Zero & New York City theatre education programs). She has a background in music, curated visual arts exhibits, directed and dramaturged for the theatre, and has served as Board President for Intersection for the Arts (2001-2002) and the Playwrights Foundation (2003 & 2004). She holds a B.A. in Classics from Aristotle University (Greece) and a M.A. in Theatre from Brown University. In the Spring of 2007, Ms. Trimis presented the case for equity and access in the arts as part of the International Symposium in Art Education held at Athens School of Fine Arts, in Athens, Greece, as well as at the national conference of the Americans for the Arts in Las Vegas, Nevada, and in November of 2007 before the National School Boards of America in San Diego, California.