Héctor Santiago Armenteros Ruiz (born July 25, 1944) is an artist who has been involved in theater in Cuba—before and after the Cuban Revolution—and in the United States.
He was sentenced to three years' service in UMAP (Military Units to Aid Production), a type of forced labor camp where political dissidents were made to work in inhumane conditions.
He has shown a strong desire to portray the social and human impacts of the disease, which was a theme in his plays throughout the 1980s.
His short stories, essays, and plays have been published and translated into English, French, and Catalan.
His play Vida y pasión de La Peregrina (Life and Passion of the Pilgrim) was awarded the University of Florida's Golden Letters Award, and its world premiere took place during the International Hispanic Theatre Festival of Miami in 1998.