Santiago Guzmán
Santiago Guzmán is an award-winning playwright, dramaturge, performer, and director originally from Metepec, Mexico, now calling St. John’s, NL, home. He is the Founder and Artistic Director of TODOS Productions & the Artistic Director of Playwrights Atlantic Resource Centre.
Santiago’s play Urn received the Senior Dramatic Script Award of the Newfoundland and Labrador 2022 Arts and Letters Awards & was shortlisted for the NLCU Fresh Fish Award 2022. Santiago was the inaugural recipient of the John Palmer Award 2022 through the Playwrights Guild of Canada for being a change-maker in the theatre industry with his advocacy in the arts regarding equity, diversity, and anti-racism. In 2023, they were inducted into the YWCA’s St. John’s Circle of Distinction with the Inspired Innovation Award. Most recently, Santiago received the Senior Dramatic Script Award at the Newfoundland and Labrador 2024 Arts and Letters Awards for their newest play Seis Grados en Mayo.
