Jason Bayani
Jason Bayani is the author of "Amulet" from Write Bloody Press. He's an MFA grad from Saint Mary's College, a Kundiman fellow, and a longtime veteran of the National Poetry Slam Scene. He's currently the program manager for Kearny Street Workshop in San Francisco and continues to perform regularly.
Manny Cabrera
Manny Cabrera saw his first show at Bindlestiff Studio in 1997, and has been involved with the theatre in some capacity since 2002. He started off writing/performing stand up comedy and has participated in the Stories High Writing Workshops where he wrote "It's So Natural" in 2010 and "Baby Lust" in 2011. "The Drive to Reseda" was created after taking the most recent round of the workshop. Currently he is also a contributing writer (and performer at times) for the sketch comedy troupe Taste Better Wit.
Stacey Cuevas
a Filipino-American mestiza perspective. Stacey’s writing is layered with poetic language and imaginative symbolism. Her love of writing, performance, and music landed her in Bindlestiff’s doorway in 2005. She continues to return there again and again.
Darah Ramos Macaraeg
Darah Ramos Macaraeg is a playwright and activist. This Bay Area native (shout out to "Vtown) earned a M.A in English with the Concentration of Creative Writing in May 2014. She enjoys writing spoken word and poetry, but right now her heart is in writing plays.
Conrad A. Panganiban
Conrad A. Panganiban is a playwright living, writing, and dreaming in Alameda, CA. His plays have been performed by Bindlestiff Studio, San Francisco State University (SFSU), CIRCA Pintig, A-Squared Theatre Workshop, Kearny Street Workshop, Sinag-tala Filipino Theater and Performing Arts Association, Taste Better Wit, UnityCLAP Theatre Group, 06 Ensemble and at The Village Pub Theatre, Leith, Edinburgh, Scotland. His play, THE BARBARY CAPER, was awarded First Place in the Playwrights CageMatch International Script Competition produced by the Douglas Morrison Theatre. He’s also proud of his collaboration with co-writers, Drew Stephens and Emmanuel Romero, on the award-winning short film (Best Screenplay, Scary Cow Film Festival), PRINSESA. INAY’S WEDDING DRESS was also selected as the Winner of the James Milton Highsmith Drama Award at SFSU where he is pursuing his MFA in Playwriting. More info: http://about.me/conradap
Sandy Panopio
Sandy Panopio was born and raised in Southern California and has never looked back. Over the past 10 years she has lived and worked all over the globe from New York City to London to the Dominican Republic and the Philippines. She recently returned to the Bay area and got back into writing where she uses her hilarious family, eclectic friends and international adventures as the source and inspiration of her tales. Sandy is also a community organizer with the Filipino women’s organization GABRIELA San Francisco and she is passionate about working with people to collectively fight for genuine change from the SoMa to the
Philippines and everywhere in between.
Gayle Romasanta
Gayle Romasanta received her MFA from California College of the Arts and co-founded CCA’s graduate literary arts journal, Eleven Eleven, now in it’s 11th year of publication. Gayle’s work can be found in several anthologies, including Troubling Borders: An Anthology of Art and Literature by Southeast Asian Women in the Diaspora (University of Washington Press 2013). Her English/Tagalog children’s book, Beautiful Eyes (Meritage Press 2012), is part of the San Francisco Unified School District curriculum. Her written, theater, and musical work as a violinist has also been shown in venues and events internationally, such as Litquake, San Francisco’s Literary Festival, Cultural Center of the Philippines, and the Gene Siskel Center for Film. Most recently, she co-composed and recorded music for the 2014 Google Philippines Overseas Filipino Worker campaign commercial.
photo by Gena Roma Photography
Christina Ying
Christina Ying: Christina received her B.A. in Asian American Studies from San Francisco State University. It was at SFSU where Christina assisted in developing a college course in Asian American arts activism, which inspired a decade long theater career with Bindlestiff Studio, the epicenter in Filipino American art. It was with Bindlestiff Studio, that she grew as a dancer, producer, director, writer, and is currently a resident artist. Christina made her theatrical debut as a writer in 2010 with the Pinays Maintaining Sisterhood Through Art collective with her monologue, The Word of Oprah. This summer she will be a panel speaker with the Long Beach Indie Digital Edutainment Conference, where she will be discussing fashion politics as well as her screenplay, Harajuku Faux Pas. Christina can be reached at cyalexis@gmail.com.