Sebastián Squella Chavez
Director, actor
Sebastián Squella Chavez is an actor, writer and theatre director and professor at the acting school of the University of Valparaiso. He is currently working as a director at the companies Perro Muerto, Zudamerikan Theater and Teatro Conjunto. His extensive experience in community theatre includes 12 years of theatre in prisons with the Colectivo Sustento, theatre workshops for neighbours and free workshops for young people, among others. His work is fully related to the political dimension of theatre, particularly its content. He seeks a language for contemporary political theatre that reflects a generational and particular stamp on the Chilean-Latin American reality.
Sebastián Squella Chavez as participant of the International Forum 2018:
Director, actor – Santiago, Chile
Sebastián Squella is an actor, theatre teacher and director with the theatre company Perro Muerto from Santiago de Chile. Since 2010 he has worked as a director on the prison theatre project “Fénix e Ilusiones” and also teaches at the theatre academy ELATEP – Escuela Latinoamericana de Teatro Popular. He graduated in Theatre and Acting from ARCIS University in 2012 and since then has been primarily concerned with examining the political dimensions of theatre, in which current social phenomena are understood as central pillars of the theatre. His aim is to create a type of theatre that raises more questions than it answers. For his play “Pinochet – La obra censurada en dictadura”, that premiered in 2015 and dealt with Chile’s military past, Sebastián Squella won numerous awards. His second play “Representar” examines the worldwide crisis of democracy.
As of: April 2025