Carmen aguirre biography
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Carmen Aguirre is a Chilean-Canadian author, actor, and playwright, and a Core Artist at Vancouver’s Electric Company Theatre . She wrote her first play, In a Land Called I Don't Remember, while still a student at Studio 58, where it premiered in 1995 to critical acclaim.
Carmen aguirre biography
It was published by Talonbooks in 2019 in an anthology of her first three plays, entitled Chile Con Carne and Other Early Works. Since then, much of her writing has been autobiographical and unabashedly left wing, exploring themes of exile, loss, alienation, and isolation.
Often the tone of her work is darkly comic.
Carmen has written and co-written over twenty-five plays, including Chile Con Carne, The Refugee Hotel, The Trigger, Blue Box, Broken Tailbone, Anywhere But Here, and adaptations for the stage of Eduardo Galeano's, Jorge Amado's, and Julio Cortazar's work.
She founded The Latino Theatre Group in 1994, made up of Latinx non-actors from the local Vancouver community, and co-created o