Join us for a first look at Consejo de Guerra (War Council), a multimedia work exploring how new generations make meaning from ancestral trauma. Weaving documentary theater with critical fabulation, director-performer Héctor Alvarez reconstructs the circumstances surrounding his great-grandfather’s death at the hands of Fascist troops during the Spanish Civil War, and excavates buried truths about family, memory, and historical violence.
In this hybrid presentation, Alvarez and technology artist Attilio Rigotti will present a stage reading of the script and share selected scenes featuring their innovative use of archival footage and digital media.

Consejo de Guerra was awarded the 2024 Humanity in Action Democracy Fellowship, a program that brings together innovative thinkers from across Europe and the United States to reimagine democratic spaces and explore the politics of memory.

Héctor Alvarez is an experimental artist from Spain working in performance, theater, film, and opera. His work has been presented in Madrid, Chicago, New York, Los Angeles, Hong Kong and Mexico City. He is a Princess Grace Award Winner, Drama League Directing Fellow, Watson Fellow, and a recipient of Opera America’s 2025 Robert L.B. Tobin Director-Designer Prize. He lives in Atlanta, where he is assistant teaching professor of Theater Studies at Emory University.

Attilio Rigotti is a Chilean performer, director, and technology artist whose work explores the intersection of game design, interactive technologies, and live performance. A former Associate Artist with Theater Mitu, his design work has been featured on and off-Broadway and recognized by the New York Times and American Theatre Magazine. His experimental projects have earned fellowships at New York Theatre Workshop and recognition from INDIECADE and the Wasserman Scholar Award.