Michael John Garcés

Michael John Garcés (born 1967) is a Cuban-American playwright and director.

Quotes

• …The play does not purport to be the play of the community—it’s really about that artist’s idiosyncratic voice and what that encounter elicits in them…
  • On the playwright’s typical thought process in “Interview with Michael Garcés” (HOWLROUND THEATRE COMMONS; 2014 Sep 3)

• …I’ve been thinking a lot in terms of how growing up in the context impacts a person’s sense of place in the world. My sense of it. Never quite believing that anything is permanent, uncontested. Never quite landing. You always are a little bit “observing”…
  • On growing up in Colombia amid violence and corruption in “Michael John Garces: Making Work in Context of Community” in SDC Journal (Fall 2015)

• …I think, from being an actor, I got the gift of understanding, respecting, and admiring what actors do and the ability to speak in a language that is useful to them…
  • On the lessons he learned as an actor before venturing into directing in “Michael John Garces: Making Work in Context of Community” in SDC Journal (Fall 2015)

• …There are assumptions made about the kind of work Latinos make. I think that remains a challenge because when people are looking for Latino plays, they’re looking for plays of that “type.” Some of that gets defined by your ethnicity…
  • On Latinos and the theater world in “Michael John Garces: Making Work in Context of Community” in SDC Journal (Fall 2015)