Recent & Upcoming
Biography
Justin (he/him/his) is a Latinx professional freelance theatre director · an Assistant Professor for The John Wells Directing Program at Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Drama, one of the world’s top-ranking theatre conservatories · the Artistic Director of El Paso Opera, a professional regional company · London-trained in theatre directing at the top-ranked East 15 Acting School. His work is an intersection of the performing arts, education, community building, and the championing of underrepresented voices.
Professional and Artistic Values
Justin's art and teaching aim to normalize the voices of the underrepresented and historically marginalized, including the championing of diversity, equity, inclusion, intersectionality and interculturalism. As a theatre-maker, he explores the performer-spectator dynamic and exploits an audience’s necessary role in theatrical creation.