World Theatre Day 2022 - Jasmin Cardenas (U.S. Emergent Artist Message)
Jasmin Cardenas is a theatermaker who uses teatro and play to create spaces where people can connect, tell their story and spark change. A proud daughter of Colombian immigrants, Jasmin was inspired by El Teatro Campesino when she began using Theater of the Oppressed to devise original scenes with working people in the fight for workers rights. Together they co-founded WorkersTEATRO in Chicago, IL to amplify wage worker stories by engaging the public. Recognized for her arts & civic engagement work she was awarded a 2020-2022 international LAB Fellowship by The Laboratory for Global Performance and Politics at Georgetown University. In 2020 she added filmmaker to her skills when she produced her first short DOC Film about essential workers, Essential?...Tengo que Trabajar/ I have to Work. Screened at Collaboraction’s 2020 PeaceBOOK Festival and 2021 Screening Scholarship Media Festival CAMRA. Recently commissioned by 1st Stage Theater in Tysons, Virginia Jasmin is currently writing her newest solo play DISPOSABLE, a Documentary Style theater piece. Her first one woman show ¿Niña Buena?…the joys and challenges of being Latina y Americana, was produced by Links Hall and toured regionally and internationally to Susana Alexander International Theater Festival in Puebla, Mexico. A proud member of Dramatists Guild of America Jasmin just performed her first bilingual Adaptation of a childrens book, Maybe Something Beautiful with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and the puppet film version with the Chicago Children's Theater. A professional bilingual storyteller Jasmin has performed at The National Storytelling Festival in Jonesborough, TN, and tours as a featured teller around the country. Winner of the 2018 OUTSTANDING STORYTELLER ALTA Award, Jasmin was recognized by the Alliance of Latinx Theater Artists of Chicago. A proud SAG-AFTRA actress, she has Guest Starred on The CHI (Showtime) and Chicago Fire (NBC) in addition to acting on many Chicago theater stages including Steppenwolf (The Compass), Goodman (The Fair, Electricidad), UrbanTheater (Devil Land, Beauty of the Father), Adventure Stage Chicago (Blue House) and Teatro Luna (Maria Chronicles, Generic Latina, Kita y Fernanda). www.JasminCardenas.com or Insta @1JasminCardenas
World Theatre Day was created in 1961 by the International Theatre Institute (ITI), and is celebrated annually on March 27 by global ITI centers and the international theatre community. Various national and international theatre events are organized to celebrate an international message and remarks from national cultural leaders. The Global Theater Initiative (GTI), a partnership between Theatre Communications Group (TCG) and the Laboratory for Global Performance & Politics (the Lab), encourages U.S. theatres, individual artists, institutions and audiences to celebrate the occasion annually on the 27th of March.