Exploring Asian American Female Identity with Lauren Garcia

Lauren Andrei Garcia is a Bay Area actor, teacher, and visual artist born to a viraginous Filipina woman and a green thumbed Mexican man.

She is a part of Las Hociconxs, El Comalito Collective, and Granny Cart Gangstas. Recent work includes acting for Custom Made Theatre Co.'s staging of Good. Better. Best. Bested, performing with the Granny Cart Gangstas on Tour, casting and directing for presentations given locally, statewide (PeriAnesthsia Nurses Association of California, 2018 Annual Meeting and Fall Seminar and the SEIU Nurse Alliance of California - 2017 Legislative Conference), and nationally (2017 National Nursing Ethics Conference), production management for Youth Speak’s production of Brave New Voices at the University of Houston, visual art at El Comalito Collective’s Ser Muxer Exhibit, and leading workshops during Moments: Youth Arts Conference and Sam Mihara Day of Justice Workshop . Her chapbook is an international Elgin award nominee.

Garcia is currently writing two short plays, "Our Lady of Yersinia Pestis" and "Our Lady of/Mother Saint Blanca" (working title), exploring themes of Asian American female identity, relationships, and self-love within historical contexts of political oppression in 1906 and 1946 in San Francisco. These two short plays are being workshopped for the playwright to explore two aspects of the psyche of the main character of "Kilig Girl", a full-length, one woman show. The project will be presented with the support of Bindlestiff Studios and Radio Basa in Spring/Summer 2020.

Lauren has been such a force in the Bay Area arts community, and we are so excited to be working with her and supporting her artistic projects, as she works to advance and share intersectional narratives of gender, identity, and healing. Congratulations, Lauren!