Retired, Theatrius Founder
Member, SFBATCC

Barry David Horwitz is a longtime theater teacher, critic, actor, and producer. He founded and served as Artistic Director of The Quixotic Players, producing works from Greek classics to contemporary plays, and has also acted and dramaturged with Shotgun Players in Berkeley. A former English and Drama professor at Saint Mary’s College, UC Berkeley, and the Universities of Paris and Montpellier, Barry has always linked theater to political and social movements. Now retired, he writes reviews as a member of the San Francisco Theater Critics’ Circle and Theatre Bay Area adjudicator. His essay “The American Dream Conspiracy” was published in Conspiracy and Consent (PULM, 2017).