Led by award winning theater artist and director Teo Castellanos, Combat Hippies is an ensemble of performing artists and Puerto Rican military veterans based in Miami, Florida. Formed during a creative writing workshop for veterans in 2015 hosted by MDC Live Arts, which culminated with their inaugural theater piece “Conscience Under Fire”. They have since premiered their sophomore theater piece “AMAL” and have developed multiple evenings of spoken word poetry/music, and offer generative approaches to workshops designed toward healing, community engagement offerings and more. The company focuses on works about combatants as people of color, and shares experiences of veterans adjustments to life after war as well as that of civilians from war-torn countries.