Director | Writer | Actor | Educator | Producer
SARA GUERRERO (she/hers) A Chicana native of Mexican and Mestizo ancestry, is a versatile theatre artist and educator whose mission is to model, share, and create theater-making opportunities for and with their community.
A CalArts alum, she’s was recently awarded a 2023-24 Individual Artists Established Fellowship (IAF)by the California Arts Council, recognized as a "People to Watch'' by American Theatre Magazine, and “Best [Artistic] Director'' and “Person of Interest” by OC Weekly, a 2022 Congressional Woman of the Year (46th district), 2021 and 2020 Woman of Distinction (Senate District 34), 2020 Hispanic Lifestyle Latina of Influence Honoree, and Community Engagement "COVID-19 ArtistGrant" Awardee.
As the founding artistic director of Breath of Fire Latina Theater Ensemble (BOFLTE), the only Latina theater company in Orange County, she and the ensemble are artists-in-residence of California State University of Fullerton’s Grand Central Arts Center in downtown Santa Ana. Under Guerrero’s leadership, the organization serves as an incubator for voices that have been historically excluded in theater by providing free programming in the guidance in the art of storytelling. No one is ever turned away for lack of experience.
As a playwright, her recent Latinx/Latine coming-of-age, roller skating abortion play "Have to Believe We Are Magic” is a "FINALIST" for 46th Annual Bay Area Playwrights Festival and selected as one of twelve "Honorable Mention" playwrights. Additionally it was winner of Panndora Box’s Sweet Sixteen News Plays Festival, the Women’s Theatre Festival Occupy 2022, Teatro Vivo's Latinx New Plays Festival 2021, a finalist for OC Centric Festival, and a presented as a reading, by BOFLTE, to fundraise for Planned Parenthood of Orange & San Bernardino Counties. The play along with her other works are available through the newplayexchange.org
In her versatility she has works with many performing arts and higher educational institutes within and beyond the greater Orange and Los Angeles County. As a freelance director, she worked with the Center Theatre Group, The Geffen Playhouse, Chance Theater, UC Irvine’s Claire School of the Arts, UMassAmherst, Cal State University of Long Beach, Chapman University, Cal State University of Fullerton, University of Oklahoma, Cal State University of Los Angeles, and more.
Guerrero supports herself as a director, theatre artist, and educator.
References, Resume(s), and full CV available upon request.
Member of Artistic Directors of Color Alliance - Greater Los Angeles (ADCA), Network of Ensemble Theatre, Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE), Theatre Communications Group (TCG)
Board member of Arts Orange County, Fringe Benefits, and Breath of Fire Latina Theater Ensemble
A CalArts alum, she’s was recently awarded a 2023-24 Individual Artists Established Fellowship (IAF)by the California Arts Council, recognized as a "People to Watch'' by American Theatre Magazine, and “Best [Artistic] Director'' and “Person of Interest” by OC Weekly, a 2022 Congressional Woman of the Year (46th district), 2021 and 2020 Woman of Distinction (Senate District 34), 2020 Hispanic Lifestyle Latina of Influence Honoree, and Community Engagement "COVID-19 ArtistGrant" Awardee.
As the founding artistic director of Breath of Fire Latina Theater Ensemble (BOFLTE), the only Latina theater company in Orange County, she and the ensemble are artists-in-residence of California State University of Fullerton’s Grand Central Arts Center in downtown Santa Ana. Under Guerrero’s leadership, the organization serves as an incubator for voices that have been historically excluded in theater by providing free programming in the guidance in the art of storytelling. No one is ever turned away for lack of experience.
As a playwright, her recent Latinx/Latine coming-of-age, roller skating abortion play "Have to Believe We Are Magic” is a "FINALIST" for 46th Annual Bay Area Playwrights Festival and selected as one of twelve "Honorable Mention" playwrights. Additionally it was winner of Panndora Box’s Sweet Sixteen News Plays Festival, the Women’s Theatre Festival Occupy 2022, Teatro Vivo's Latinx New Plays Festival 2021, a finalist for OC Centric Festival, and a presented as a reading, by BOFLTE, to fundraise for Planned Parenthood of Orange & San Bernardino Counties. The play along with her other works are available through the newplayexchange.org
In her versatility she has works with many performing arts and higher educational institutes within and beyond the greater Orange and Los Angeles County. As a freelance director, she worked with the Center Theatre Group, The Geffen Playhouse, Chance Theater, UC Irvine’s Claire School of the Arts, UMassAmherst, Cal State University of Long Beach, Chapman University, Cal State University of Fullerton, University of Oklahoma, Cal State University of Los Angeles, and more.
Guerrero supports herself as a director, theatre artist, and educator.
References, Resume(s), and full CV available upon request.
Member of Artistic Directors of Color Alliance - Greater Los Angeles (ADCA), Network of Ensemble Theatre, Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE), Theatre Communications Group (TCG)
Board member of Arts Orange County, Fringe Benefits, and Breath of Fire Latina Theater Ensemble