Bindlestiff Studio Selects New Artistic Director

Aureen brings to the role an extensive background in performance and education. For the past twelve years, she has been a resident artist at Bindlestiff, having performed in productions such as A Pinoy Midsummer, directed by Lorna Velasco; A. Rey Pamatmat’s Thunder Above, Deeps Below, and staged readings for Lysley Tenorio’s Monstress directed by Sean San Jose and Jeannie Barroga’s Aurora. She co­-founded Pinays Maintaining Sisterhood Through Art (P.M.S.T.A) and Granny Cart Gangstas, an all womxn Asian ­American sketch comedy group, which recently premiered their latest production, Bad Fruit, at Bindlestiff. She is also a national touring performer with ShadowLight Productions for the show Feathers of Fire created by Hamid Rahmanian in collaboration with Larry Reed, which has been performed at Fort Mason Center, the Brooklyn Academy of Music, Harvard University, UCLA, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Aureen holds a Bachelor of Arts in Liberal Studies and a Masters of Arts in Asian American Studies at San Francisco State University. She is an adjunct professor in the Ethnic Studies department at Laney College, where she teaches Asian American Studies. She is also a part-time preschool and administrative assistant at Cherubim’s Children’s Center and a Yerba Buena Center for the Arts teaching artist at Bessie Carmichael Elementary School in San Francisco.

Her primary goals are to schedule the 2017 production calendar, launch youth programming at the ’Stiff, and support the organization’s fund development. In the immediate future, her work as a producer can been seen in the forthcoming Stories High XVI production, Oct 13-29.

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Thank you and CONGRATULATIONS, AUREEN!