Catherine Hernandez

As the daughter of Cecille Estioko Hernandez, a pioneer of Filipino Folk Arts education in Canada, Catherine Hernandez is dedicated to the development of the Filipino-Canadian artistic community. Her first play, Singkil, was produced by fu-GEN Asian Canadian Theatre Company in association with Factory Theatre and garnered seven DORA nominations including Best New Play, Independent Division. Singkil is part of the Scarborough Stories anthology of works which tell the tales of Toronto’s dodgier east side. She has worked in one capacity or another with Carlos Bulosan Theatre, Native Earth Performing Arts, Buddies in Bad Times Theatre and numerous others. Her new plays Kilt Pins and Future Folk with the Sulong Theatre Collective are in development at Theatre Passe Muraille where Catherine is the 08/09 playwright in residence. She is now writing Coyote alongside poet Emma Ari Beltrán with Alameda Theatre Company.