Writer.
Performer.
Educator.
Aimee Suzara is a Filipino-American poet, playwright, and performer based in Oakland, CA. Her mission is to create, and help others create, poetic and theatrical work about race, gender, and the body to provoke dialogue and social change.
Her poetry and plays have been produced, adapted, and published widely, and she has collaborated with a variety of choreographers, musicians and dance companies for multidisciplinary productions. A cultural worker and professional educator for the past twenty years, she tailors and offers lectures, performances and workshops to organizations, universities, and classrooms. Grounded in her education and practice in the literary arts, she also can offer individualized coaching and copyediting to guide and inspire your writing journey.
What can I book Aimee for?
Invite Aimee to speak, lecture, perform, provide individualized coaching, manuscript consultation
and copyediting services, or lead a workshop.
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Workshops
Consulting, Coaching,
Copy Editing
Speaking Engagements
Latest Projects
New Poem Video: Originally aired as part of the 7th Annual Life is Living Theater Stage:
ROOTED IN RESILIENCE (Act 1) presented by Youth Speaks and CalShakes, this is a special poet's cut of Aimee Suzara's poem "Change is Us" -- with performed collaboration by choreographer/dancer Andrea Spearman, film editing by Joan Osato.
Commission for a multi-year writing, development process and production of play The Real Sappho to have its World Premiere in 2022 by Cutting Ball Theater, 2020-2022.
TINY FIRES, selected and developed by Custom Made Theater for Undiscovered Works Festival (2021), will have its World Premiere in Oct 19-29, 2023 with Custom Made Theatre Company at CounterPULSE in San Francisco!
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