Javier Antonio González

BIOGRAPHIE

Javier Antonio González is a playwright, director, and filmmaker who has served as the artistic director of the production company CABORCA since its founding, and more recently of its sister film company, DACHA FILMS. His feature film THE ENTITLEMENT premiered in 2018 at the Manhattan Film Festival and was awarded best screenplay. The film subsequently screened at the Indie Street Film Festival and was entered into competition at the BLOW-UP International Arthouse Filmfest, where González was nominated for the Tarkovsky Best Director Award. His plays with CABORCA include: Lying Lydia; Distant Star (adapted from Roberto Bolaño's novel); Zoetrope; Open up, Hadrian; Barceloneta, de noche; and FLORIDITA, my Love. In 2016, he directed his original translation of A Midsummer Night's Dream in San Juan, Puerto Rico for Teatro en el Parque. His work has been published in the anthologies, Plays and Playwrights 2011 (New York Theatre Experience), Encuentro: Latinx Performance for the New American Theater (Northwestern University Press) and in the journals Revista Conjunto and The Puerto Rico Review.

FILMOGRAPHIE