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Actor / Director

Hector Ramirez, a Colombian born actor-director, presently lives in

Madrid, Spain with his family. As a young man, Hector was heavily

influenced by the communist ideas present in the National Acting School

and concluded that this philosophy was the “best way to bring needed

change to the social and political problems of his country.” On leaving

Hector Ramirez high school, he joined a professional theater troupe that performed in

different theatres and festivals in Columbia in the 1970s. In 1977 he encountered people from

Youth with a Mission who shared the Gospel with him and he surrendered his life to God. “This

brought about a radical change in my life and thinking,” said Hector.

In the early ‘90’s in Madrid, Spain, Hector and his wife founded the Aslan Theater

Group, a performing arts initiative with Christian worldview values. Hector reports, “In the last

few years we produced our own plays and sketches, for example, an adaptation of Othello by

Shakespeare and the staging of a poem by a Spanish Renaissance writer based on the book of

the Song of Songs.” Hector went on to say, “I am persuaded that the arts have a great power to

depict, spread and communicate values and principles in a very subtle way, and even contribute

to turn them into convictions in the long run in people’s lives and behavior. This we can clearly

see from the way the film, the arts and the mass media influence and contribute to shape and

form people’s opinions in our modern societies.” Hector went on to say that he found it essential

as a Christian to, “reflect on how to implement Christian morals and ethics in our daily lives as

artists living in our . . . post Christian, and apathetic society.”