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Héctor Flores Komatsu (小松輝) is an international theatre director, playwright and actor. Currently, he is Artistic Director of Makuyeika Colectivo Teatral, a fellow at the Laboratory for Global Performance and Politics with Georgetown University, and a recent recipient of the Jóvenes Creadores grant of the FONCA (National Fund for the Culture of the Arts, Mexico). He holds dual citizenship with Mexico and the United States.
Héctor founded Makuyeika after a year-long theatrical search across Mexico’s indigenous communities conducted as an inaugural member of the Julie Taymor World Theatre Fellowship. His work has performed across cities and villages in México, and internationally with Chicago Shakespeare Theatre, The Public Theatre, NYC, China, Germany, Chile, among other countries. Original creations: "Andares", "The Game, or the perpetual rematch (based on the Popul Vuh)" and "Ix-kik: Blood, moon, sister."
HFK has worked with Peter Brook as his apprentice on Battlefield (based on The Mahabharata), as an actor in The Valley of Astonishment, and most recently as adapter and co-director of the Spanish-language premiere of Brook’s production of "The Suit".
Héctor received his BFA in Theatre Performance (Directing) at the University of Michigan, where he directed Sotto Voce, a then unpublished play by Pulitzer Prize winner Nilo Cruz. He has interned with Théâtre de la Ville – Paris and has trained with the Suzuki Company of Toga, Japan and the International Noh Institute under Tatsushige and Norishige Udaka, actors of the Kongo Nohgakudo.
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Central Mexico:
To explore the Mexico I don't know, I must first reconnect with the Mexico that I have known.