new roots festival | the tetsuro project
Livestream Reading | Friday, June 11 at 8:00 PM PST
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As the brother of a well-known pastor and best-selling Christian author, Tetsuro is so well-versed in the art of preaching he teaches the craft, but from the vantage point of a non-believer. Sit in on his masterclass, and be prepared to experience the sacrament of theatre anew. This piece is being created in collaboration with dramaturge Daniela Atiencia. Catch the workshop reading as part of Pacific’s New Roots Festival.
Get in on the ground floor of Tetsuro Shigematsu’s (Empire of the Son, 1 Hour Photo) autobiographical, one-person play in development.
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- Tetsuro Shigematsu | Playwright
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- Daniela Atiencia | Dramaturge
Tetsuro Shigematsu is a former writer for This Hour Has 22 Minutes. He became the first person-of-colour to host a daily national radio program in Canada when he became host of The Roundup on CBC Radio, where he voiced nearly a thousand hours of network programming, as well as writing, producing and voicing over 50 pieces of radio drama.
Dubbed “the voice of our Azn generation” by Ricepaper magazine, Tetsuro’s theatrical solo-work Empire of the Son was named the best show of 2015 by the Vancouver Sun, and has been touring continuously throughout Canada, and beyond. It has played in 18 cities to over 20,000 people, and was described by theatre critic Colin Thomas as, “one of the best shows ever to come out of Vancouver. Ever.”
His other solo-work, 1 Hour Photo garnered five Jessie nominations, winning for Significant Artistic Achievement, and was named as a finalist for the 2019 Governor General’s Award for Drama. The Georgia Straight recently declared him to be, “one of the city’s best artists.” Visit him at shiggy.com.
Daniela Atiencia is a Latinx-Canadian theatre artist born and raised in Colombia. She graduated with Honours and received a BFA in Theatre Performance from SFU’s School for the Contemporary Arts. She returned to Colombia to work at a community radio station, producing audio content for marginalized areas of the Colombian armed conflict. Desiring further artistic growth, she moved to the UK where she graduated with Distinction and acquired her MFA in Theatre Directing from The University of Essex’s East 15 Acting School.
Daniela is a bilingual director, dramaturg, and deviser. She is interested in collectivized and collaborative creation-based processes and enjoys working with interdisciplinary artists. Her work has been seen in Colombia, Lithuania, Canada, England and Denmark. She is currently based on the Unceded Territories of the Coast Salish peoples (Vancouver, B.C.) working with internationally acclaimed theatre companies including Rumble, Touchstone Theatre, Neworld Theatre, Playwrights Theatre Centre, rice & beans theatre, The Arts Club, and Electric Company.
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