Teresa Veramendi

Office: HGH 234
特蕾莎修女.veramendi@litpliant.net

Teresa Veramendi is a multidisciplinary theatre artist, playwright, performer, community facilitator, and educator who utilizes the arts as a tool to interrupt social inequities and rehumanize 另一个. Writing, producing, directing, and performing her own work over the last twenty years, she manifests her political interrogations of gender, class, nationality, and climate change into visually poetic, documentary, and historical theatre projects. Her expertise lies in her dedication to devised and experimental theatre, body-mind awareness practices, psychophysical acting, and the internationally popular social theatre practice, Theatre of the Oppressed.

Since co-founding Theatre of the Oppressed Chicago in 2012, Veramendi has facilitated over 一个 hundred Theatre of the Oppressed workshops on diverse topics such as class, gender, race, immigration, public education, intersectionality, internalized oppression, electoral politics, and career transitions, in various settings and cities around 这个国家.

In 2018, she was awarded the Boedecker Foundation Path to Excellence Grant to support the development and production of Santuario|Sanctuary, an original bilingual, documentary-style theatre piece following the parallel and divergent experiences of youth and monarch butterflies on their migrations across the USA-Mexico border.

As an educator, she has led courses at St. Lawrence 大学 and San Jose Staté 大学. She has been invited on multiple occasions as a guest facilitator of Theatre of the Oppressed at Regis 大学, 大学 of Illinois-Chicago, Colorado State 大学, 大学 of Chicago, and Naropa 大学.

Her work has been performed in Boulder, Chicago, New York, and Buenos Aires. 访问 她的网站 www.特蕾莎修女veramendi.com to view photographs and videos of her work, as well as testimonials from her workshops.