Jorge Mario Escobar Munevar

JORGE MARIO ESCOBAR MUNEVAR has been associated with the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana (Javerian Pontifical University, PUJ) since 2016, and is currently an Assistant Professor I in the Theater Department and the Faculty of Arts. He teaches in the theater program and conducts research in the same field. He is also an academic counselor, a portfolio and thesis tutor, and a member of the Comité del Medio Universitario (University Committee), representing the theater program. He is also a representative of the PUJ Theater Program in the Red Nacional de Escuelas de Teatro (National Network of Theater Schools) and is the coordinator of the Field of Ensembles in the Theater Arts Program.

His research revolves around comic language in clowning techniques. In that vein he has conducted research related to theater arts and medical simulations, and the potential of clowning techniques, somatics, and laughter as pedagogical tools.

Professor Escobar Munevar has has published several articles as a co-researcher in the field in which he practices, and has also been a judge in various arts grants for the Instituto Distrital de las Artes de Bogotá (The Bogotá District Arts Institute, IDARTES), and for the Colombian Ministry of Culture.

He has served as a guest director of student thesis projects in theater for the Arts Faculty in the Academia Superior de Artes de Bogotá (Bogotá Higher Academy of the Arts, ASAB), a program of the Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas (Francisco José de Caldas District University)