Dave Buchen is a founding member of Chicago’s Theater Oobleck, for which he has written numerous plays, and San Juan’s El Teatro Bárbaro, of which his children would like to remind him that they are the bosses. His cantastoria projects include Natural History based on work by Plinius the Elder, Takes After His Father based on work by whoever wrote The Bible and John Huston, and the 8-year long Baudelaire in the Box project. As a printmaker, he has made numerous books and a yearly calendar since the previous century. He plays with La Banda Municipal de Makula-Barun. He lives with his two children in San Juan.