Héctor Alvarez is a theater and opera director from Spain.
His productions have been presented in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Madrid, Hong Kong, and Mexico City, and have been praised as “visually gorgeous and fulsome, so rich and sensitive in detail” (The Chicago Reader).
A recipient of the Princess Grace Award and the Opera America Robert L.B. Tobin Director-Designer Award, Héctor has also been a Drama League Directing Fellow, a Watson Fellow, and an artist-in-residence at the Antonio Gala Foundation in Spain.
In 2025, he became a fellow at the Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry, where he is developing an original multimedia piece exploring his family’s complex relationship with Spanish fascism.
• Princess Grace Award (2022)
• Opera America Robert L.B. Tobin Director-Designer Award (2024)
• Drama League Directing Fellow (2023)
• Watson Fellow (2008)
• Artist-in-Residence at the Antonio Gala Foundation (2011)
• Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry Fellow (2025)
• The School of Memory (Theatre Y, Chicago, 2026)
• Charges / The Supplicants (Theatre Y, Chicago, 2026)
• My Foot My Tutor (Theater Emory, Atlanta, 2025)
• Umbra (Highways Performance Space, Los Angeles, 2025)
• Antigonick (Lehigh University, Pennsylvania, 2024)
• Here Be Sirens (CalArts, Los Angeles, 2023)
• Roberto Zucco (CalArts, Los Angeles, 2022)
• The Water Station (CalArts, Los Angeles, 2022)
• We’re Gonna Die (Film Adaptation, 2020)
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