- ABOUT THE ARTISTIC DIRECTOR -
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Santiago Guzmán (he/they) is an award-winning playwright, dramaturge, performer, and director originally from Metepec, Mexico, now based in St. John’s, NL. He is the Artistic Director of TODOS Productions & the Artistic Director for Playwrights Atlantic Resource Centre.
Santiago’s work as a writer aims to put local, under-represented narratives and characters on the frontlines, whilst inviting audiences to appreciate the vibrancy of Newfoundland and Labrador from a diverse perspective. |
Their work has been supported, developed and/or produced by theatre companies and festivals such as TODOS Productions (NL), RCA Theatre Company (NL), White Rooster Theatre (NL), Artistic Fraud of Newfoundland (NL), Poverty Cove Theatre Company (NL), Rising Tide Theatre (NL), Neighbourhood Dance Works (NL), Theatre Newfoundland and Labrador (NL), Eastern Front Theatre (NS), PARC (pan-Atlantic), Ship's Company Theatre (NS), Theatre New Brunswick (NB), Paprika Festival (ON), Stratford Festival (ON), Lemontree Creations (ON), Boca Del Lupo (BC), Banff Playwrights Lab (AB) and the National Theatre School of Canada’s Art Apart Program (QC). He is a member of Playwrights Canada Press's inaugural editorial committee.
His one-person show, ALTAR, world-premiered in 2021 with the Resource Centre for the Arts Theatre Company and toured across high schools in Newfoundland and Labrador as a digital offering, as well as national presentations at Prismatic Arts Festival, (NS) and Aluna Theatre’s RUTAS Festival (ON). This same production received a summer presentation at the Gros Morne Theatre Festival with TNL in 2023, an Atlantic Canadian tour in 2024, as well as a performance at the SpotOn Festival in Lancashire (UK). ALTAR received a second production by Theatre New Brunswick in the winter of 2023 and toured their province alongside the world premiere of his new TYA play, S.T.O.P. Santiago co-wrote a documentary theatre piece about immigrants and refugees to Newfoundland and Labrador with Nabila Quershi and Vanessa Cardoso-Whelan titled NewfoundLanded, which will premiere in November 2024 in St. John’s, produced by TODOS Productions in association with White Rooster Theatre.
Santiago’s play Urn received the Senior Dramatic Script Award of the Newfoundland and Labrador 2022 Arts and Letters Awards & was shortlisted for the NLCU Fresh Fish Award 2022. Santiago was the inaugural recipient of the John Palmer Award 2022 through the Playwrights Guild of Canada for being a change-maker in the theatre industry with his advocacy in the arts regarding equity, diversity, and anti-racism. In 2023, they were inducted into the YWCA’s St. John’s Circle of Distinction with the Inspired Innovation Award. Most recently, Santiago received the Senior Dramatic Script Award at the Newfoundland and Labrador 2024 Arts and Letters Awards for their newest play Seis Grados en Mayo.
Santiago's work is very gay, very brown, and very real. Representation matters.
www.sguzman.ca
His one-person show, ALTAR, world-premiered in 2021 with the Resource Centre for the Arts Theatre Company and toured across high schools in Newfoundland and Labrador as a digital offering, as well as national presentations at Prismatic Arts Festival, (NS) and Aluna Theatre’s RUTAS Festival (ON). This same production received a summer presentation at the Gros Morne Theatre Festival with TNL in 2023, an Atlantic Canadian tour in 2024, as well as a performance at the SpotOn Festival in Lancashire (UK). ALTAR received a second production by Theatre New Brunswick in the winter of 2023 and toured their province alongside the world premiere of his new TYA play, S.T.O.P. Santiago co-wrote a documentary theatre piece about immigrants and refugees to Newfoundland and Labrador with Nabila Quershi and Vanessa Cardoso-Whelan titled NewfoundLanded, which will premiere in November 2024 in St. John’s, produced by TODOS Productions in association with White Rooster Theatre.
Santiago’s play Urn received the Senior Dramatic Script Award of the Newfoundland and Labrador 2022 Arts and Letters Awards & was shortlisted for the NLCU Fresh Fish Award 2022. Santiago was the inaugural recipient of the John Palmer Award 2022 through the Playwrights Guild of Canada for being a change-maker in the theatre industry with his advocacy in the arts regarding equity, diversity, and anti-racism. In 2023, they were inducted into the YWCA’s St. John’s Circle of Distinction with the Inspired Innovation Award. Most recently, Santiago received the Senior Dramatic Script Award at the Newfoundland and Labrador 2024 Arts and Letters Awards for their newest play Seis Grados en Mayo.
Santiago's work is very gay, very brown, and very real. Representation matters.
www.sguzman.ca
- PRODUCTION MANAGER -
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Ana Pitol (she/her) is a Brazilian producer, actress, and mother of little Isabel (2-year-old) based in St. John's, NL, Canada. She has a Bachelor's degree (2011) and a Master's degree in History (2015) and has been a History teacher since 2010.
She began to study acting in 2018 and since arriving in Canada (2022), she decided to change her career and dedicated herself to working in theatre. Since then she has been involved and working with relevant organizations in St. John's such as TODOS Productions (Project Coordinator Intern and production manager for Happy Anniversary by Vanessa Cardoso-Whelan, Juan, Juana, G'wan-Neetah Play Workshop by Santiago Guzmán), White Rooster Theatre (production manager for The Heart Play by Marie Pike - July 2023 - and Song Seekers by Caroline Rex Bay, Ruth Lawrence & Petrina Bromley), St. John's Shorts (assistant producer for the 8th Annual St. John's Short Play Festival) and Women's Work Festival (Assitant Producer for the 18th edition). In parallel to these projects, she is the Membership and Communications Coordinator at PARC (Playwrights Atlantic Resource Centre).
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In December 2023, she completed the BMP Producer Academy 2023 Cohort, an 8-week course offered by Beth Morrison Projects in New York, for which she was selected from 275 applicants.
- 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.
