Dr. Xiomara Cornejo (she/her/ella) is a Salvadoran American theatre director, and award-winning designer, award-winning playwright, award-winning dramaturg, as well as award-winning educator and scholar from Compton, California. Her professional work includes theatre directing, dramaturgy, design, after-school arts programming, applied theatre, and community organizing. Her scholarship centers on street and protest theatre, radical theatre history of the Americas, political puppetry, and circus. Dr. Cornejo is an Assistant Professor of Theater at the University of San Francisco.