Gigi Guizado is an award-winning international actor/writer/director, resident playwright at The Asylum Theatre, and member of Out of the Wings Collective. Her translations and original 10-minute plays have been staged in San Francisco, CA, Las Vegas, NV, and London, UK. She studied acting at The New Conservatory, College of Marin, The Actor’s Centre, and earned her BA in drama from San Francisco State University. Selected acting credits include: (Theatre) Antígona, The Therapist (Best from the W.E.S.T. 2023), The Ghosts of Lote Bravo; (Film) Session (Nevada Women’s Film Festival Audience Favorite Award), Dog City (Madrid International Movie Awards Best Supporting Actress); (Voiceover) We’re Alive: Descendants, The Pit Below Paradise, How It Ends.
Gigi’s writing credits include theatre translations published in Another Chicago Magazine, Asymptote Journal, The Mercurian, and featured on Performing International Plays. Her translation of The Therapist by Gabriela Yepes is published by Inti Press. Her poetry has been nominated for Best of the Net and published in The Emerson Review, Rogue Agent Journal, Salamander Ink Magazine, The Bluebird Word, and The Platform, among others. She is a contributing arts writer for El Nuevo Mundo newspaper.
Gigi’s directorial credits with A Public Fit include References to Salvador Dalí Make Me Hot, Native Gardens, The Lifespan of a Fact, and Lydia. She was delighted to direct Mother Road by Octavio Solis for APf this season.