APAture 2005 Featured Artist in Theater (Photo Courtesy of the artist)

Sean San José is a native of San Francisco of mainly Filipino and Puerto Rican background. Sean is a proud member of Intersection for the Arts and their resident theatre company Campo Santo. He conceived the theatre project "Pieces of the Quilt", a collection of new, short plays confronting the AIDS epidemic. San José organized and created the AIDS Service Arts organization Alma Delfina Group-Teatro Contra el SIDA, to distribute funds and present benefit performances. As Founding Director he has worked, commissioning these pieces and then presenting the plays in theatres, schools, libraries, clinics and community centers. Started as an homage to his parents who died of AIDS, the collection includes an ever growing group of over thirty-five writers, including; Edward Albee, Lanford Wilson, David Henry Hwang, Tony Kushner, Rhodessa Jones, Danny Hoch, Craig Lucas and others with currently over seventy plays. The plays are commissioned by and written expressly for the Alma Delfina Group mission to be used and performed solely as benefit producing events.