Javier Antonio González is a playwright, director, and filmmaker who has served as the artistic director of CABORCA since its founding. Some of their authorial work with the company includes: Lying Lydia; Distant Star (adapted from Roberto Bolaño's novel); Zoetrope; Open up, Hadrian; Barceloneta, de noche; FLORIDITA, my Love; and their first feature film, The Entitlement.

In 2016, they directed their original translation of A Midsummer Night's Dream in San Juan, Puerto Rico for Teatro en el Parque.

Javier’s work has been published in the anthologies, Plays and Playwrights 2011 (New York Theatre Experience), Encuentro: Latinx Performance for the New American Theater (Northwestern University Press) and in The Puerto Rico Review.

Javier holds a BA from the University of Puerto Rico and an MFA from Columbia University School of the Arts. They were a Van Lier Directing Fellow, a member of the Public Theater’s Emerging Writers Group and a recipient of the Global Connections–In the Lab grant from Theatre Communications Group.

They have taught at DreamYard Prep, LaGuardia Community College, and directed Electra at Barnard College and The Lower Depths at NYU.