Anamaria Guerzon

Anamaria Guerzon (She/They) is a mixed race Filipino-American Theatre Artist based in Seattle. Their work seeks to explore humanness, with an emphasis on marginalization within hierarchy, and the legacy of ongoing colonization. Within this, they center Brown folks, particularly Filipino people, as this reflects their heritage and identity. They believe in the power of specificity. They also believe in the inherent magic of the human experience, and seek to represent this lived reality through the fantastic and strange. They blur the lines between this magic and the mundane, with the understanding that both exist, and life is full of inherent contradictions.

Their play SKIN has been developed in a workshop/reading with The Playwright Realm’s Scratchpad Series (dir. May Adrales), and will...

Anamaria Guerzon (She/They) is a mixed race Filipino-American Theatre Artist based in Seattle. Their work seeks to explore humanness, with an emphasis on marginalization within hierarchy, and the legacy of ongoing colonization. Within this, they center Brown folks, particularly Filipino people, as this reflects their heritage and identity. They believe in the power of specificity. They also believe in the inherent magic of the human experience, and seek to represent this lived reality through the fantastic and strange. They blur the lines between this magic and the mundane, with the understanding that both exist, and life is full of inherent contradictions.

Their play SKIN has been developed in a workshop/reading with The Playwright Realm’s Scratchpad Series (dir. May Adrales), and will be in Seattle Public Theater's New Works Distillery this June (dir. Zenaida Smith). They have also developed work with Village Theater’s Northwest Creator’s Program (2022 Cohort), and Copious Love's Plays On Tap series. They received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Theatre, from Pacific Lutheran University (2021).

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Scripts

SKIN

by Anamaria Guerzon

9
Cast Size
5
Genre
biography,
docudrama/historic,
drama,
experimental,
political

Zora is a young, non-binary Filipino artist, aspiring to make their way in the Seattle Tattoo industry. When they find a mentor in Judy, Zora enters the world of tattoo, finding the art form’s deep ties to Filipino culture. Judy teaches Zora how to navigate the tense environment of the white-dominated tattoo industry, while pressures intensify thanks to Carl, the authoritarian shop owner.

As the painful history...

Zora is a young, non-binary Filipino artist, aspiring to make their way in the Seattle Tattoo industry. When they find a mentor in Judy, Zora enters the world of tattoo, finding the art form’s deep ties to Filipino culture. Judy teaches Zora how to navigate the tense environment of the white-dominated tattoo industry, while pressures intensify thanks to Carl, the authoritarian shop owner.

As the painful history of Filipino colonization begins to crash into the present, Zora finds themself caught at the convergence point of tattoo now and then– discovering what it means to live in a marginalized body.

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BLOOD/SUCKER

by Anamaria Guerzon

1
Cast Size
6
Genre
dark comedy,
drama,
horror,
mystery/thriller,
political,
satire

Ryan, a high school social studies teacher, is tired. He's been spending late nights grading homework, as well as fending off parental complaints about his Asian-American History class, who claim that he is using 'Critical Race Theory' to indoctrinate the students. Then Hillary, the new Principal, arrives. And the students are beginning to act very strange...

Blood/Sucker is a bloody political satire/horror...

Ryan, a high school social studies teacher, is tired. He's been spending late nights grading homework, as well as fending off parental complaints about his Asian-American History class, who claim that he is using 'Critical Race Theory' to indoctrinate the students. Then Hillary, the new Principal, arrives. And the students are beginning to act very strange...

Blood/Sucker is a bloody political satire/horror play about the public school system, and those it feeds off of.

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Keep You

by Anamaria Guerzon

3
Cast Size
2
Genre
drama

Reflecting queer love and loss, Keep You tells the non linear story of Marie and Janice throughout their intense and confusing relationship, falling into the grey area between friendship and unspoken romance.

Reflecting queer love and loss, Keep You tells the non linear story of Marie and Janice throughout their intense and confusing relationship, falling into the grey area between friendship and unspoken romance.

Mixed

by Anamaria Guerzon

1
Cast Size
2
Genre
comedy,
drama,
satire

Rey and Angela are filling out their college applications, when they are confronted with the: 'Ethnicity' question.

This ten minute play questions our understanding of race, and what it means reduce one's identity to a single box.

Rey and Angela are filling out their college applications, when they are confronted with the: 'Ethnicity' question.

This ten minute play questions our understanding of race, and what it means reduce one's identity to a single box.

Filipina Rock Song

by Anamaria Guerzon

1
Cast Size
9
Genre
drama

TBD.

TBD.

To Be Well

by Anamaria Guerzon

Cast Size
3
Genre
drama

Addy is at her limit, and sends her father, Thomas, to her therapist. Thomas is skeptical.

Commissioned by MirrorStage's 'Inspired By' Play Festival.

Inspired by The Therapy Fund Foundation/Ashley McGirt.

Addy is at her limit, and sends her father, Thomas, to her therapist. Thomas is skeptical.

Commissioned by MirrorStage's 'Inspired By' Play Festival.

Inspired by The Therapy Fund Foundation/Ashley McGirt.

Alike in Dignity: A Summer Camp Tale

by Anamaria Guerzon

Cast Size
8
Genre
adaptation,
young audiences

A riff on Romeo and Juliet, featuring two summer camps (The Sports and The Shakespeares) forced to share one camping ground. As the historic camp rivalry ignites, Quinn and Wren begin to take notice of each other.

A riff on Romeo and Juliet, featuring two summer camps (The Sports and The Shakespeares) forced to share one camping ground. As the historic camp rivalry ignites, Quinn and Wren begin to take notice of each other.