Santiago Guzmán (he/they) is an award-winning playwright, dramaturge, performer, & director originally from Metepec, Mexico, calling Newfoundland and Labrador home. He is the artistic director of TODOS Productions & artistic director of Playwrights Atlantic Resource Centre.

Selected directing credits include The New Canadian Curling Club, TourCO’s S.T.O.P. & Animal Farm [upcoming] (Neptune Theatre), NewfoundLanded, 76 Centimeters, Braiding Peonies [upcoming] (TODOS Productions), Aya and the Masquerades, The Tales of Dwipa (White Rooster Theatre), Saudade (Theatre Newfoundland and Labrador), City of Stories (Artistic Fraud of Newfoundland).

In 2019, Santiago was listed as an innovator in Atlantic Business Magazine’s edition of 30 under 30: Newfoundland and Labrador. He was awarded the inaugural John Palmer Award in 2022 through the PGC for being a change-maker in the theatre industry with their advocacy in the arts regarding equity, diversity, and anti-racism. In 2023, he was inducted into the YWCA’s St. John’s Circle of Distinction with the Inspired Innovation Award for the same values.

Photo by: LV Imagery – Lauren Vandenbrook