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.