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CATHERINE HERNANDEZ
Nationality: Canadian
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as the daughter of Cecille Estioko Hernandez, a pioneer of Filipino Folk Arts education in Canada, Catherine Hernandez (Collective Member/Performer/artistic Director, Sulong Theatre) is dedicated to the development of the Filipino-Canadian artistic community. Her first play, Singkil, was produced by fu-GeN Asian Canadian Theatre Company in association with Factory Theatre and garnered seven Dora Mavor Moore nominations including Outstanding New Play, Independent Division. She is working/has worked in one capacity or another with Carlos Bulosan Theatre, Native earth Performing Arts, Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, aluna Theatre and numerous others. Her current projects include: Kilt Pins (her play to be produced by Sulong Theatre in May 2010), and eating with Lola (her one-woman puppet play developed by fu-GeN Asian Canadian Theatre Company and the Kapisanan Centre for the Arts). She is a proud member of the modern tribal crew, Santa GuerrillA. She was Theatre Passe Muraille's 08/09 playwright in residence and is now the Theatre's associate Producer. She has recently launched Sulong Theatre, a company dedicated to producing Theatre by and about women of colour. the creative wing of the company, the Sulong Theatre Collective are proud to be Carlos Bulosan Theatre's 09/10 playwrights in residence.
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Femme Playlist, The Future Folk I Cannot Lie To The Stars That Made Me SingkilFemme Playlist, The
How to be sweaty, loud, proud, slutty, brown and lesbian
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Contained in: "The Femme Playlist" published by Playwrights Canada Press 2018
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Lesbian drama full length
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the plight of Filipino nannies in Toronto
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the Sulong theatre Collective Are: Karen Ancheta; Romeo Candido; Aura Carcueva; Catherine Hernandez
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Theatre Passe Muraille, Toronto
24 Feb 2010
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Sulong Theatre Collective
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Top of PageI Cannot Lie To The Stars That Made Me
A guide to women of colour who are mourning
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Top of PageSingkil
the play surrounds Mimi, a young Filipino woman who is searching for her identity and is forced into an immediate confrontation with it after the recent death of her mother. as the story progresses we see that Mimi resents her mother, a woman she knew little about during her life; whose human flaws became evident to her daughter far too early in life. the great irony here is that in attempting so arduously to defy her mother's memory, Mimi slowly and against her will begins to become just like her.
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first featured At the 2005 CrossCurrents Festival And is part of Hernandez's Scarborough Stories Anthology
1st Produced:
Factory Theatre, Toronto
01 Nov 2007
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fu-GeNAsian Canadian Theatre Company
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Playwrights Canada Press
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