- ABOUT THE ARTISTIC DIRECTOR -
Photo by Vaida V. Nairn
Santiago Guzmán (he/him) is a playwright, performer, and director for theatre and film from Mexico City, now based in St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador. He holds a BFA in Theatre (2019) from Memorial University, Grenfell Campus.
It is in Santiago's keen interest to promote diversity onstage and onscreen, to encourage folks with diverse backgrounds to share their talents and stories with the arts community in Newfoundland and Labrador, but most importantly exhort Newfoundlanders and Labradorians to see their homeland with a diverse perspective.
Due to his work with TODOS Productions, he was listed in 2019 as an innovator in Atlantic Business Magazine's edition of 30 under 30: Newfoundland and Labrador.
He is the Artistic Associate for Playwrights Atlantic Resource Centre in Halifax, NS and General Manager for Neighbourhood Dance Works in St. John’s, NL.
Locally, Santiago has worked with White Rooster Theatre, Rising Tide Theatre, Power Productions, Artistic Fraud of Newfoundland, Resource Centre for the Arts Theatre Company, Neighbourhood Dance Works, Perchance Theatre, Shakespeare By The Sea Festival, Blue Pinion Films, Nickel Independent Film Festival, NIFCO, CNA Digital Filmmaking Program, and CBC NL. Santiago has also been part of Eastern Front Theatre's RBC Emerging Playwrights Program (NS) and 2019 Paprika Festival (ON).
He has guest-taught the period study at George Brown Theatre School (ON), and facilitated acting workshops at Memorial University of Newfoundland (NL), and will be teaching a playwriting workshop at Mount Allison University (NS) and a screenwriting workshop at Grenfell Campus (NL) in the Winter of 2021.
His work is very brown, very queer, and very real.
It is in Santiago's keen interest to promote diversity onstage and onscreen, to encourage folks with diverse backgrounds to share their talents and stories with the arts community in Newfoundland and Labrador, but most importantly exhort Newfoundlanders and Labradorians to see their homeland with a diverse perspective.
Due to his work with TODOS Productions, he was listed in 2019 as an innovator in Atlantic Business Magazine's edition of 30 under 30: Newfoundland and Labrador.
He is the Artistic Associate for Playwrights Atlantic Resource Centre in Halifax, NS and General Manager for Neighbourhood Dance Works in St. John’s, NL.
Locally, Santiago has worked with White Rooster Theatre, Rising Tide Theatre, Power Productions, Artistic Fraud of Newfoundland, Resource Centre for the Arts Theatre Company, Neighbourhood Dance Works, Perchance Theatre, Shakespeare By The Sea Festival, Blue Pinion Films, Nickel Independent Film Festival, NIFCO, CNA Digital Filmmaking Program, and CBC NL. Santiago has also been part of Eastern Front Theatre's RBC Emerging Playwrights Program (NS) and 2019 Paprika Festival (ON).
He has guest-taught the period study at George Brown Theatre School (ON), and facilitated acting workshops at Memorial University of Newfoundland (NL), and will be teaching a playwriting workshop at Mount Allison University (NS) and a screenwriting workshop at Grenfell Campus (NL) in the Winter of 2021.
His work is very brown, very queer, and very real.
- CORE MEMBERS OF TODOS PRODUCTIONS -
As TODOS Productions has found space within the Newfoundland and Labrador Theatre Ecology, artists like Nora Barker, Vanessa Cardoso-Whelan, Robyn Huxter, and Ruth Lawrence have been there to support the growing needs of our company. We are honoured, humbled, and grateful to count with their years of experience, knowledge and talent to support TODOS' endeavour of creating space for voices like ours.
