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Diego López Francia is a Peruvian vegan philosopher and theatre practitioner. He has worked as a philosophy and acting professor, playwright, actor, and theatre director in Peru for over twenty years. He holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in philosophy from the Catholic University of Peru, where he also studied performing arts. He created plays such as Golosina, Sabotaje, Karaoke, Madrugada, and La Rebelión de los Conceptos, and co-wrote the films Viejas Amigas and El Correcaminos.
Throughout his career, he has explored the connections between philosophy and theatre across his artistic practice, teaching, and research. In the Humanities Ph.D. program at Concordia, his research-creation project examines testimonial theatre as a means of reflecting on identity, offering insights into how the transformation of the performer’s self within the creative process and the performance of a testimonial play enable audiences to reflect on personal identity. As a case study, he is creating the play Find the River, based on his search for his missing grandfather, an emotional journey through his memories that explores the construction of masculinity in Peru.
