{"id":8303,"date":"2023-11-14T20:38:13","date_gmt":"2023-11-14T20:38:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/160-theater-and-dance\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=8303"},"modified":"2026-09-01T16:49:40","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T16:49:40","slug":"jarek-pastor","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/theater-and-dance\/facultystaff\/jarek-pastor\/","title":{"rendered":"Jarek Pastor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"il\">Jarek<\/span> Pastor(they\/them) is a theatremaker with a focus on writing, dramaturgy, and directing. Their work operates on symbolic reasoning to enact absurdist portraits of social systems in the spirit of clown and duende. Their work manifests a theatre of being more than the expected doing\u2014 of presence and acquaintance more than deed and explanation. As instructor, <span class=\"il\">Jarek<\/span>\u00a0seeks to nurture a feeling of playfully focused curiosity in service of expanding understanding while invigorating the individual and community.\u00a0<span class=\"il\">Jarek<\/span>\u00a0is currently based in the Twin Cities and holds an MFA from the University of Iowa Playwrights Workshop.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":787,"featured_media":8305,"template":"","class_list":["post-8303","profile","type-profile","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/theater-and-dance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/8303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/theater-and-dance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/theater-and-dance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/theater-and-dance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/787"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/theater-and-dance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/8303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10221,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/theater-and-dance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/8303\/revisions\/10221"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/theater-and-dance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/theater-and-dance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}