Sean San José is a writer, director, performer, and co-founder of Campo Santo, a new performances group for People of Color in San Francisco. Founded in 1996, Campo Santo is committed to developing new performance and to nurturing People of Color-centered, new audiences and has premiered over one hundred new works. For fifteen years San José was the Program Director of Performance under Deborah Cullinan, alongside Kevin B. Chen and Rebeka Rodriguez, for Intersection for the Arts, San Francisco’s oldest alternative arts space. He co-created Alma Delfina Group-Teatro Contra el SIDA and Pieces of the Quilt, a collection of over fifty short plays on AIDS. Writing commissions and productions include Play On! for Oregon Shakespeare Festival, American Conservatory Theater, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Ictus Productions, Kronos Quartet, Kularts, and others. In his multi-genre work, San José has developed and directed the first performance pieces and plays with Jimmy Santiago Baca, Junot Diaz, Dave Eggers, Star Finch, Chinaka Hodge, Denis Johnson, Luís Saguar, and Vendela Vida, and he has enjoyed ongoing collaborations with creators Luis Alfaro, Jessica Hagedorn, Richard Montoya, and Roger Guenveur Smith. He is a proud part of Colman Domingo’s production company Edith Productions for film, television, and theatre. San José is in his second year as the Artistic Director at the Magic Theatre, where he is the first person of color to hold the position in the history of the theatre.