Mateo Hurtado (@_laserpipe) is a Brooklyn-based comedian, variety show host, co-founder of the Brown Theatre Collective, and Performance Studies chameleon from Chicago. As a pupil of Anna Deavere Smith, Sandra Ruiz, and Alexandra T. Vazquez, Mateo's training spans, spurs across solo performance and Latinx Performance Studies which informs his deliberate yet dizzying vision/s as a curator, thinker, and comedic cacophony-conduit. Mateo has been seen (perf)orming throughout the big apple at rambunctious spaces including Ars Nova,The Kitchen, HERE Arts Center, Chateau de 420 Marcy, Mayday Space, Triple Crown, Dixon Place, The PIT, ART/NY, Edge Theater @ The Point, and The Footlight. When he's not having a ball or gallivanting literally anywhere, he's probably thinking about formerly being in a café, obsessed about something wild. And he has a YouTube presence, he swears. NYU Performance Studies MA. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign BFA Theatre Studies, BA Latina/o Studies. For more on Mateo: www.mateohurtadothings.tumblr.com
