Teresa Veramendi

Teresa Veramendi is a Basque-American multidisciplinary theatre artist, playwright, director, performer, and community facilitator who utilizes the arts as a tool to disrupt social injustices. She manifests her political interrogations of gender, ability, nationality, class, and climate change into visually poetic, documentary, and historical theatre projects that have been produced locally, nationally, and internationally. A recipient of the Norma Elia Cantú Creative Writing Award, Veramendi has lectured at St. Lawrence University and currently teaches at San Jose State University. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her husband and their two cats.

Teresa Veramendi is a Basque-American multidisciplinary theatre artist, playwright, director, performer, and community facilitator who utilizes the arts as a tool to disrupt social injustices. She manifests her political interrogations of gender, ability, nationality, class, and climate change into visually poetic, documentary, and historical theatre projects that have been produced locally, nationally, and internationally. A recipient of the Norma Elia Cantú Creative Writing Award, Veramendi has lectured at St. Lawrence University and currently teaches at San Jose State University. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her husband and their two cats.

Scripts

I'm Not Her

by Teresa Veramendi

Cast Size
1
Genre
dark comedy,
drama,
experimental

A deep dive into the psyche of a teenage girl, as told by one of her psychological parts: Passion Monster. Imprisoned for most of the girl's life, Passion Monster finally speaks and tells the story of how she got free.

A deep dive into the psyche of a teenage girl, as told by one of her psychological parts: Passion Monster. Imprisoned for most of the girl's life, Passion Monster finally speaks and tells the story of how she got free.

Santuario|Sanctuary

by Teresa Veramendi

Cast Size
8—25
Genre
docudrama/historic,
drama,
political

Created by Amy C. Buckler Rusterholz, Victoria Gonzalez, Stephanie San German & Teresa Veramendi
Written by Teresa Veramendi

A bilingual, documentary-style theater piece following the parallel and divergent experiences of youth and monarch butterflies on their migrations across the USA-Mexico border. Script constructed from over thirty anonymous interviews collected in Texas, California, Colorado, Illinois, and...

Created by Amy C. Buckler Rusterholz, Victoria Gonzalez, Stephanie San German & Teresa Veramendi
Written by Teresa Veramendi

A bilingual, documentary-style theater piece following the parallel and divergent experiences of youth and monarch butterflies on their migrations across the USA-Mexico border. Script constructed from over thirty anonymous interviews collected in Texas, California, Colorado, Illinois, and Chicago. Development and production partially funded by the Boedecker Foundation Path to Excellence Grant in 2017, as well as by Naropa University.

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By Any Other Name

by Teresa Veramendi

Cast Size
3
Genre
experimental,
movement/physical

Full-length devised work about intercultural (mis)understanding and the untranslatable elements of culture and language. Utilizing psychophysical movement and improvisational music composition to unfold multiple aspects of linguistic form and content. Written collaboratively with an international cast from South Africa and Japan, integrating ritual, dance, and song.

Full-length devised work about intercultural (mis)understanding and the untranslatable elements of culture and language. Utilizing psychophysical movement and improvisational music composition to unfold multiple aspects of linguistic form and content. Written collaboratively with an international cast from South Africa and Japan, integrating ritual, dance, and song.

Vincent's Yellow

by Teresa Veramendi

Cast Size
6
Genre
biography,
drama,
experimental,
movement/physical

Full length autobiographical/biographical play rich with dance and poetry about the life-changing relationship between the author and her mentor-in-letters, Vincent van Gogh, throughout several years of research and travel in the US and Europe. The character, Vincent, speaks only in direct quotes from the painter's letters.

Full length autobiographical/biographical play rich with dance and poetry about the life-changing relationship between the author and her mentor-in-letters, Vincent van Gogh, throughout several years of research and travel in the US and Europe. The character, Vincent, speaks only in direct quotes from the painter's letters.