Violeta Luna obtained her graduate degree in Acting from the Centro Universitario de Teatro in Mexico City. In 1995 she founded Grande y Pequeño (Big and Small), an all-women theater company that focuses on developing original works and experimental stagings of classical theater. Luna has toured her work extensively throughout Mexico. She has also performed and taught workshops in Cuba, Argentina, Peru, Brazil, Spain, France, Portugal, Norway, Egypt, and the United States, among other locations. She works in community-centered projects such as Xochimilco, in Mexico, and with incarcerated and recently arrived immigrant women in San Francisco. Since 1998, she has been an associate artist of La Pocha Nostra, the San Francisco-based interdisciplinary performance-collective led by Guillermo Gomez Peña. In San Francisco, she is also the associate director of El Teatro Jornalero!, a theater company that brings the voice of Latin American immigrant workers to the stage, and the performance collective Secos & Mojados. Her current work explores the relationship between theater, performance, and community engagement.

Roberto Gutiérrez Varea began his career in theater in his native city of Córdoba, Argentina. His research and creative work focuses on live performance as means of resistance and peace-building, in the context of social conflict and state violence. He has directed numerous productions and workshops associated with new play development, particularly with Latino-Chicano artists in the United States, where credits include premieres of works by Cherrie Moraga, Migdalia Cruz, Jose Rivera and Ariel Dorfman, among others. Gutiérrez Varea is the founding artistic director of Soapstone Theatre Company, a collective of male ex-offenders and women survivors of violent crime, and of El Teatro Jornalero!, a performance company that brings the voice of Latin American immigrant workers to the stage. He is an Associate Professor of Theater at the University of San Francisco, where he is Chair of the Performing Arts and Social Justice Major, and the Performing Arts Department. He also teaches theater to incarcerated women at the San Francisco County Jail's Sisters Project. He is an associate editor of Peace Review, an international journal on peace and justice studies published by Routledge Press, and guest-edited the “Borders” issue of e-misférica, the journal of performance and politics published by the Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics. He is a member of the San Franicsco-based performance collective Secos & Mojados.