Freelance Theater Artist
Annalise C Guidry
Annalise Guidry is a non-binary, artistic facilitator, “theater-anthropologist” -playwright, director, educator and resident artist - based in Boston with a devotion to theater as a vehicle for communion.
My Mission
My mission as an artist is to contribute to life-sustaining world-making projects with theater as my vehicle. I implement indigenous ways of knowing, feminist notion of “knowing with” (Allison Weir) and a love ethic in all stages of theater-making to practice a theater of union as a way to combat systems of domination. Seeing theater as a vehicle of love, I interrogate: in what ways can our stories bring us together?
Specialties & Interests
Playwriting
Directing
Devising
Ensemble Work
Improvisation
Storytelling
Research
Theater of the Oppressed
Embodiment
Togetherness through Specificity
Collaborative Work
Casting
Afro-Caribbean Diaspora
Southern Black Stories/Diaspora
Lineage
Upcoming, Current & Previous Works
Annalise in the workshop room for The More the Man next to director, Julian X and playwright Jameson P Murray
An excerpt from workshop, "Labyrinth..." In this workshop, Annalise facilitates their practice knowing-together through the shape of a labyrinth. They use this shape to mimic the queer journey to wholeness. "When we're born, we know who we are but life happens and we are put through tests and other people's perceptions and we get lost. But the way to wholeness is like that of a labyrinth: the same way in is the same way out."
Participants walk the labyrinth together and write down and scatter their stories. As they walk through once more, they read each other's stories aloud. Allowing a mosaic "loom-like," reading of each others' paths to wholeness.
UPCOMING:
CURRENT:
Queer (Re)Public Residency: Resident Artist
Boston, MA
September 2023 - 2025
The Theater Offensive
PREVIOUS:
Labyrinth: Using Queerness as a Map to Love
Boston, MA
August 1, 2024
Isabella Steward Gardner Museum, “Party on our Block”
Director: Mad Dash 2024
Boston, MA
July 20 2024
Fresh Ink Theater
Director: Staged Reading of XROADS
Boston, MA
June 1, 2024
Company One Theater, Volt Lab
Theater of Union Presents: The River
Ashfield, MA
April 21 -27, TTO at Double Edge
The Theater Offensive
Theater of Union: Emergence through Grief Workshop
Boston Center for the Arts Boston, MA
March 30, 2024
The Theater Offensive
Dramaturg: The More The Man Staged Reading
BCA, Boston, MA
February 24 &25th
Fresh Ink Theatre
Facilitator: Gaza Monologues Story Circle
Pao Arts Center, Boston, MA
February 8th 2024
The Theater Offensive
C1 Teaching Artist
Boston, MA
January - June 2024
Company One Theater in partnership with Orchard Gardens Pilot School
Artistic and Engagement Fellow
Boston, MA
September 2023 - February 2024
Speakeasy Stage
Dramaturg: The More the Man Workshop
Boston, MA
September 2023
Fresh Ink Theater Company
Mad Dash 2023 @ Lyric Stage: Playwright in Collaboration
Boston, MA
July 22, 2023
Fresh Ink Theater
Season 24 Voltlab Showcase: We Grow Together
Boston, MA
May 17 2023
Company One Theater
Open Write: Divination as a Tool for Creativity - Facilitator & Co-Lead
Boston, MA
February 2023
Company One Theater
Season 24 VoltLab: Playwright
Boston, MA
October 2022 - May 2023
Company One Theater
Trickster and Us: Latinx Heritage Month - Theater Workshop
Boston, MA
October 2022
Brooke Charter High School
Pa La Calle - Co- Director
Boston, MA
August 2022
Hyde Square Task Force
Hyde Square Task Force - Head Theater Teaching Artist
Boston, MA
Summer 2022 - September 2023
Theater Teaching Artist
Just A Thing - Playwright
Boston, MA
May 2021
Emerson College/Marlboro College Plan of Concentration
3 Women, 3 Myths - Playwright, Director, Actor
Edinburgh Fringe Festival
August 2018
Marlboro College
What am I working on?
With The Theater Offensive, Annalise is crafting a praxis for theater- one that emphasizes process over product inspired by anthropological approaches, a love ethic and through their years growing up sharing stories as ways of sharing their self. Annalise is most interested in lineage and how we pass down our selves to future generations and in the way we honor our past lineage whether or not they were meant to include us. Annalise believes that by honoring lineage, we honor ourselves. By honoring ourselves, we open ourselves to greater love and communion within multiplicity.
Most recently, Annalise explored lineage during their time as a teaching artist with Hyde Square Task Force by crafting a performance of Caribbean myths and folktales adapted and told through the individual stories of the youth. This performance adapted the myths of Lasiren, Oshun, Kianda, Yemaya, and Bees told through the traditional Haitian form of storytelling- Krik, Krak. If you would like videos of this performance, please contact Annalise directly for a private link.
If you would like to support, sponsor or be a part of my work in any way, contact me!
