Jeannie Barroga, a Bay Area-based playwright, has her complete collection of The Jeannie Barroga Papers at Stanford University Green Library’s Special Collections (in process). Ms. Barroga is a Lifetime Dramatists Guild Member.
Selected national productions are RITA’S RESOURCES at Pan Asian Repertory, New York; Gerbode-awarded BUFFALO’ED at Kumu Kahua and San Jose Stage; EYE OF THE COCONUT at Seattle’s NWAAT, TALK-STORY at Kumu Kahua and TheatreWorks, etc. WALLS premiered at San Francisco’s Asian American Theater, was awarded NEA’s Access to Artistic Excellence Award, and is published and taught in national and international institutions. AATC’s premiere, BANYAN, an Oz-like metaphor on 9-1-1, was awarded Mira Theater’s Arty Award for Best Original Production earning eleven of 37 nominations.
She had received the Maverick Award in Los Angeles from Women’s Playwrights.
Ms. Barroga had been Literary Managers at both TheatreWorks’ and Oakland Ensemble Theater and Interim Artistic Director for both Asian American Theater Company and Bindlestiff Studio. In 1981 she had started the Playwright Forum, aka TheatreWorks New Works. See https://newplayexchange.org/users/23938/jeannie-barroga for descriptions of available plays.
For NAATA NY, she directed AATC’s chosen play at LaMama’s following other directing roles at TheatreWorks, Brava Theater Center at which she directed residential recovery clients thanks to CAATA member, Joan Osato.
Other projects include novels TURN RIGHT AT THE WATER BUFFALO (a mother-daughter trip to the politically simmering Philippines post-Marcos era heats up their personal encounters) and MARKED, a mystery paranormal novel.
She has been an indie film co-producer for Encounters on Earth and on YouTube.
Barroga is one of two actors in the international cult film I AM A GHOST. Recent roles were in Berkeley’s Those Women Productions, CentralWorks, and Playground. She toured her one-woman show A GOOD FACE throughout the West Coast including the Mark Taper Forum, Stanford University, Warehouse Rep, Seattle Center, etc.
She held writing workshops and served on grants panels nationwide and from the 1990s onward, Barroga held lectures and workshops in Honolulu, Seattle, Colorado Springs, Chicago, Minneapolis, Boston, Washington, D.C., and New York. She co-produced both SOMA webisodes on YouTube and Encounters on Earth shorts on Vimeo. For the California tour of The ROMANCE OF MAGNO RUBIO, Barroga consulted to producers at the Bob Hope Theater, Stockton and at Skyline College, San Bruno.
Personal Details: Barroga, , one of five siblings, was born in Milwaukee to Filipino immigrants. She moved to California, secured positions at Stanford keeping graphics jobs while honing her playwriting skills. With her husband of nearly 20 years and two brother cats, she is based in the Bay Area.
Website: www.jeanniebarroga.com Twitter @jeanniebarroga Related: www.iamaghost.com