Héctor ÁlvarezAssistant Teaching Professor, Theater Studies

Héctor Alvarez (he/him) is an interdisciplinary artist and scholar working in performance, theater, film, and contemporary opera. His work interrogates experiences of incarceration, oppression, violence, history, and identity. He is the founder of Stupleme, a collective of emerging BIPOC and immigrant artists committed to experimentation. Héctor was the executive director of Still Point Theater Collective (a Chicago-based organization that provides arts outreach programs to adults with developmental disabilities, currently and formerly incarcerated women, and senior citizens) from 2017-2019. He has been on faculty at North Park University and, more recently, was the Horger Artist in Residence in the Performing Arts at Lehigh University. He is a FutureNow Fellow, Watson Fellow, Humanity in Action Senior Fellow, and a 2022 Princess Grace Award recipient. Héctor holds an MFA in Directing from California Institute of the Arts, an MA in Anglo-American modernist literature from University College London, and a BA in theater and international studies from Macalester College (USA). Recent directing credits include the opera "Here Be Sirens," the plays "Roberto Zucco" and "The Water Station" (CalArts, Los Angeles), and "We’re Gonna Die," a film re-imagining of Young Jean Lee’s existential cabaret about mortality. The film was created in isolation during the COVID-19 pandemic and was named one of 2020’s Top Cultural Picks by WDCB’s The Arts Section.