Anthem Salgado

BIOGRAPHY

Anthem Salgado is a multi-disciplinary artist and educator.  Born in the Philippines and raised in New York, he is celebrated for his bold and energetic examinations of identity, conflict and language in the American experience within a wide variety of genres including fiction, theater, poetry and performance art.

Salgado has performed his original solo-theater creations on the stages of San Francisco Asian Art Museum, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Intersection for the Arts, and Kearny Street Workshop.  Bare Knuckle, his feature-length one-man show debuted at Brava Theater under the direction of Evren Odcikin, and he held the lead role in the play Friends written by Kobo Abe and directed Raelle Myrick-Hodges. 

Salgado has presented his spoken word throughout the Bay Area, New York, Honolulu, and Manila.  As a literary artist, his fiction appears in the anthologies Field of Mirrors and I Saw My Ex at a Party. 

He has led numerous workshops and has given guest-lectures at UCLA, San Francisco State University, University of San Francisco and Mills College in Oakland, California.  Salgado was awarded a Philippines Fulbright-Hays scholarship via Sonoma State University's North Bay International Studies Program, and was elected Young Leader of Color by Theatre Communications Group.

AFFILIATIONS:

Brava Theater
Kularts Inc.
Sons Poetry Performance Project
Philippine American Writers and Artists
Intergenerational Writers Workshop
Voices of Our Nation
Anthem Kenturion Performance Project
Theater Communications Group Young Leaders of Color
Fulbright-Hays Philippines Study Tour '08

EDUCATION:

Mapmaking for the Dance Theater Dreamer, San Francisco, California
Movement and choreography workshop led by Erika Chong Shuch, 2009
 
48 Hours of Hip Hop Theater, New York, New York
Devised theater and critical pedagogy led by Daniel Banks, 2009
 
LaMama, Spoleto, Italy,
Symposium for Directors, 2009
 
Cliff Osmond Acting Studio, San Francisco, California
Scene Analysis, 2004-2008
 
University of San Francisco, San Francisco, California
Voices of Our Nation writing workshop, 2008
Memoir writing led by Faith Adiele
 
Kearny Street Workshop, San Francisco, California
Intergenerational Writers Lab, 2008
Multi-genre literary instruction by Devorah Major, Ricardo Bracho, Truong Tran, Annalee Newitz, Bushra Rehman and Jeff Chang
 
Kularts, San Francisco, California
Sons poetry and performance project, 2005
Poetry and Performance project with attention to page-to-stage development
 
Intersection for the Arts, San Francisco, California
Alternative Theater Institute, 2004
Writing and Performance with concentration on text, rhythm, and movement led by artists of Campo Santo, Felonious, and ESP Project
 
Kearny Street Workshop, San Francisco, California
Writing for Solo Performance led by Canyon Sam, 2004
 
San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, California
Bachelor of Fine Arts, 1998
Interdisciplinary Arts with focus in New Genres