An Epicenter of Filipino American Performing Arts in San Francisco

When: Mar 25 - May 27 (Tuesdays); 6:30pm - 9:30pm
Location: Bindlestiff Studio 185 6th St. San Francisco, CA
Cost: $150 (Payment plans negotiable)
Register: Email Melvign Badiola at melvign@bindlestiffstudio.org

Have YOU ever wanted to Direct a Stage Play? Little or No experience? Might be expensive? You're in luck! Bindlestiff Studio is starting it's long running and hugely successful workshop series STORIES HIGH! This year's facilitator is the amazing Marissa Esperanza Catubig. For more info, Email us! SPACE IS LIMITED, DON'T WAIT, SIGN UP NOW!

Esperanza Catubig has been acting professionally for over twenty years, appearing in stage productions, educational theatre, commercials, industrials, a one-woman show, and eventually TV and film. She was born and raised in San Francisco, studied dance, music, and theatre at School of the Arts, and moved on to graduate with a BFA in Acting at SMU in Dallas, TX. She has travelled all over the US, Europe, and China doing what she loved, acting. Having lived and worked throughout Los Angeles for eight years, she came to terms that she wanted to tell more Filipino-American women’s stories, to celebrate “home” and since then co-wrote, starred, and produced her first short film, Nico’s Sampaguita directed by Aaron Woolfolk.

Currently in post-production, due out this year, she stars in a feature film shot in Louisville, Kentucky titled Acts of God directed by Shane Sooter. She has worked with numerous film directors listed on imdb.com and award-winning stage directors including Jon Lawrence Rivera (LA production of Jessica Hagedorn’s Dogeaters 2004/2007 at the Kirk Douglas Theatre, Jean Colonomus’s The Third From the Left at Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2006), Henry Chan (Fox Showcase, East West Players), and Andre DeShields (Brecht’s The Three Penny Opera); On screen, she has worked with Tim Busfield (Without A Trace, CBS), Jonathan Frakes (Clockstoppers), and Tony Kaye (SBC).

In LA, she was inspired by groundbreaking efforts of Lodestone Theatre Ensemble, East West Players, TDRZ productions, CBS, and Diana Lee Inosanto (The Sensei). In SF, Esperanza has worked with artist/activist Pearl Ubungen’s Dancers & Musicians, Allan Manalo’s Tongue In A Mood, Lewis Campbell’s Theater Residencies, Incorporated, and Mona Lisa Yuchengco.

Esperanza’s directorial debut was a studio project of David Henry Hwang’s FOB. She has also staged the writings of Jin Hunh Li’s Superfriends for Asian American Theatre, and in LA, Jeannie Barroga’s Banyan. Esperanza is known as an actor, independent filmmaker, non-profit arts facilitator, acting coach, and certified feng shui professional organizer.