About Angela Ciandro
Angela is a professionally trained actor, director, and playwright with an MFA in Lecoq Based Actor Created Theatre from the London International School of Performing Arts and Naropa University. As a queer theatre maker, Angela has been creating original theatre for sixteen years that tells stories that celebrate our differences while seeking a true sense of belonging in the world. As a devised theatre maker, Angela has been awarded residencies for her plays, Unauthorized at Mama Calizo’s Voice Factory, San Francisco, and Eulogy at The Little Angel Puppet Theatre, London, UK. In 2018 she was commissioned to create the first piece of children’s theatre for the San Francisco National Queer Arts Festival, Javi’s Home. She was also awarded the Arts Council Santa Cruz Create Grant to tour Javi’s Home, a show about a young boy adopted by two moms to Santa Cruz, California. Angela is most proud of her work starting the UK based social enterprise, VoiceOUT, a physical theatre company that offered personal and artistic development opportunities to LGBTQ+ young people through theatre based resilience building workshops. Her current work as a Teaching Artist allowed her to teach a range of performing arts subjects from puppetry, movement, and design at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama to playwriting, acting and devised theatre to K-12th grade students in elementary schools across the Bay Area, Santa Cruz, and Monterey Counties. Her current focus is on developing K-5th grade theater arts integration strategies and curriculum alongside developing programming to guide the next generation of theatre makers through producing and shaping their original work.