Herbert Siguenza

Herbert Siguenza

Herbert Siguenza was born on 1959, is Actor, Writer, Producer. Herbert Siguenza is a founding member of the performance group Culture Clash. Along with Richard Montoya and Ric Salinas ,Culture Clash is the most produced Latino theatre troupe in the United States. Founded in San Francisco in 1984, Culture Clash has performed on the stages of America's top regional theaters including the Mark Taper Forum, The Kennedy Center, The Arena Stage, The Alley Theatre, The Berkeley Repertory, Yale Repertory, South Coast Rep, La Jolla Playhouse, San Diego Rep, Syracuse Stage, The Huntington Stage and countless universities and colleges. Mr. Siguenza has co-written, and or performed in the following Culture Clash plays: American Night (Commissioned by Oregon Shakespeare Festival) ,Palestine New Mexico, Water and Power, Chavez Ravine (all three commissioned by the Mark Taper Forum) , Peace (Commissioned by The Getty Villa), Zorro in Hell! (Commissioned by the Berkeley Rep), The Birds (Commissioned by the Berkeley Rep and South Coast Rep), Bordertown (commissioned by the San Diego Rep), Radio Mambo, Nuyorican Stories, Anthems, S.O.S., A Bowl of Beings, The Mission and others. As a solo writer and performer Mr. Siguenza has produced Cantinflas! and A Weekend with Pablo Picasso on national tour. His latest plays Steal Heaven and El Henry (Best new play San Diego Critics Circle Award 2014) have been produced at the San Diego Repertory and La Jolla Playhouse. Mr. Siguenza is also an accomplished visual artist and has exhibited both nationally and internationally. He has a BFA in printmaking from the California College of Arts, Oakland, California. TV and Film credits: "Ben Ten Alien Swarm" for the Cartoon Network, "Larry Crowne" feature film directed by Tom Hanks. Various short films.
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Biography/Timeline

2014

Herbert wrote and performed in a solo show, My Weekend with Pablo Picasso which features his skill at painting and has been performed at the Los Angeles Theatre Center, and the San Diego Rep. He wrote and performed in another show, ¡Cantinflas! about the Mexican comic of the same name, which was co-commissioned by the Alley Theatre in Houston and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco. Other work of Siguenza's includes Steal Heaven, and El Henry, an adaptation of Shakespeare's Henry IV which was presented at the La Jolla Playhouse in June 2014, and Manifest Destinitis which premiered at the San Diego Rep in their 2016-2017 season . In 2016, Siguenza began a three-year Playwright residency at the San Diego Rep as a part of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation's National Playwright Residency Program, administered by HowlRound.