Héctor Flores Komatsu (小松輝) is an international director & theatre-maker with roots in Mexico, Japan & the United States. He is Artistic Director of Makuyeika Colectivo Teatral, an MFA Candidate in Directing at the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale University, and a fellow at the Laboratory for Global Performance and Politics with Georgetown University.

Héctor founded Makuyeika after a year-long theatrical search across Mexico’s indigenous communities conducted as an inaugural member of the Julie Taymor World Theatre Fellowship. His work has been performed across cities and villages in México, and internationally with Chicago Shakespeare Theatre, The Public Theatre, NYC, China, Germany, Chile, among other countries. Original creations: "Andares", "The Game, or the perpetual rematch (based on the Popul Vuh)" and "Ix-kik: Blood, moon, sister."

HFK has worked with Peter Brook as his apprentice on Battlefield (based on The Mahabharata), as an actor in The Valley of Astonishment, and most recently as adapter and co-director of the Spanish-language premiere of Brook’s production of "The Suit". Héctor was also a finalist in the Rolex Mentor and Protégé program with Lin-Manuel Miranda.

Héctor received his BFA in Theatre Performance (Directing) at the University of Michigan, where he directed Sotto Voce, a then-unpublished play by Pulitzer Prize winner Nilo Cruz. He has interned with Théâtre de la Ville – Paris and has trained with the Suzuki Company of Toga, Japan, and the International Noh Institute under Tatsushige and Norishige Udaka, actors of the Kongo Nohgakudo.