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Anna Rogelio Joaquin

Anna Rogelio Joaquin (she/her) is a Pilipina-American artist, organizer, and teacher based in Chicago, IL.

Anna Rogelio Joaquin is a Pilipina-American artist, organizer, and teacher. She holds a B.A. in Theatre and minors in Mathematics and Musical Theatre from Loyola University Chicago, where she was primarily active as a performer, dramaturg, choreographer, and music director. In 2021, she earned an M.A. in Performance as Public Practice from the University of Texas at Austin, where her research interrogated relationships between theatre, organizing, and social change. Joaquin works alongside Gathering Ground Theatre and is pursuing an M.A. in English Education from the University of Illinois at Chicago.

A person standing amongst city approved homeless deterrent pegs on a bench.
Humanizing Homelessness: An Interview with Lisa Hoelscher of Gathering Ground Theatre
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Humanizing Homelessness: An Interview with Lisa Hoelscher of Gathering Ground Theatre

19 May 2022

Gathering Ground Theatre—an Austin, Texas collective comprised of people with lived experiences of homelessness and allies—creates performances that aim to influence public opinion and local legislation. Anna Rogelio Joaquin sits down with Lisa Hoelscher to discuss Lisa’s experience as a co-creator and performer of works that expose issues like hostile architecture and camping bans, as well as the company’s current work on a memorial performance.