Carmen Aguirre

Carmen Aguirre

Carmen Aguirre, an award-winning theatre artist and author, is an Electric Company Theatre Core Artist and Artistic Associate of New Play Development at The Stratford Festival. She has written and co-written over twenty-five plays, the #1international bestseller Something Fierce: Memoirs of a Revolutionary Daughter (CBC Canada Reads winner), and its bestselling sequel, Mexican Hooker #1 and My Other Roles Since the Revolution. She is adapting Euripides’ Medea, Moliere’s The Learned Ladies for Toronto’s Factory Theatre, Linebaugh and Rediker’s The Many-Headed Hydra for The Stratford Festival, and writing Fire Never Dies for Electric Company. She has over eighty film, television, and stage acting credits, and over a dozen theatre directing credits. Carmen is a 2020 Siminovitch Prize finalist, and a graduate of Studio 58.