Works by Anamaria Guerzon:
SKIN
MIXED
KEEP YOU
Synopses:
Skin – 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, an experienced Black Tattoo Artist, Zora enters into the world of tattoo, and 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 in the face of Carl, the authoritarian shop owner. The history of tattoo and colonization of the Philippines begins crashing into the present, as Zora explores the convergence of marginalization, tattoo, and the long history of Filipino oppression.
Mixed – 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 to reduce one’s identity to a single box.
Keep You – Keep You is the story of two girls whose relationship and subsequent falling out fall into the gray area between friendship and romance. Keep You reflects on love and loss as a young, queer person. It explores how the best relationships, even ones that ended badly, are nevertheless filled with love, and growth.
Bio:
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 work has most recently been developed in a workshop/reading with The Playwright Realm’s Scratchpad Series (dir. May Adrales). They were an Artist in Residence for Village Theater’s Northwest Creator’s Program (2022 Cohort), where they worked on developing an original musical. They have also workshopped pieces at Centerstage Theatre and Tacoma Little Theatre. They received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Theatre, from Pacific Lutheran University (2021).