about the cast
Sean San Jose
Sean San José is a Co-Founder of Campo Santo, a new performances group creating, developing, and premiering new works by and for People of Color since 1996. Campo Santo has been core to the community in the Bay Area for more than 25 years now.
San José is the newly appointed (05.2021) Artistic Director for the renowned Magic Theatre, the first Person of Color to lead the “house that Sam Shepard” built. San José begins a new era filled with residencies, collaborations, and cross-disciplinary work merging mediums while still commissioning and producing the newest, boldest works from the likes of Luis Alfaro, Colman Domingo, Star Finch, Richard Montoya & Roger Guenveur Smith for his first curated season (2022/23).
For 15 years (1999-2014) San José was the Program Director of the Performance Program at Intersection for the Arts, where he produced and oversaw hundreds of premiere productions of theatre, dance, and interdisciplinary performances, working under Deborah Cullinan and alongside Kevin B. Chen and Rebeka Rodriguez as part of a team that developed new work models that crossed boundaries, disciplines, and communities. 
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San José was the Creator of Alma Delfina Group- Teatro Contra el SIDA (1994-2002) and Pieces of the Quilt, a collection of more than 50 short plays including original works by Edward Albee, Migdalia Cruz, Maria Irene Fornes, Danny Hoch, David Hwang, Rhodessa Jones, Tony Kushner, Craig Lucas, Herbert Siguenza, Lanford Wilson, and many more, confronting AIDS.
San José’s original writing has been commissioned and produced by American Conservatory Theatre, Mixed Blood Theatre, University of California at Berkeley- Theatre Dance Performance Studies, The Living Word/Ictus , de Young Museum, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Yerba Buena Gardens, Magic Theatre, and numerous times for Intersection (1999-2013), and with Campo Santo (1996- present).
He continues to lead Campo Santo in the commissioning, development, and producing of new works for stage including the first play by Star Finch, H.O.M.E. and the dance ritual piece Ethos de Masquerade from Rashad Pridgen, as well as producing the new pieces Casa de Spirits by Roger Guenveur Smith and Candlestick by Ben Fisher and directing Richard Montoya’s Translating Selena. San José has developed and directed new plays by Jimmy Santiago Baca, Junot Diaz, Dave Eggers, Chinaka Hodge, Denis Johnson, Richard Montoya, Luis Saguar, Ntozake Shange, Vendela Vida, Erin Wilson, and others for Campo Santo.