COMING UP:

• Terrible Things Are Happening, And I Am Still Alive

  Mercury Store January 27th-31st

  Beyond excited to reunite with beloved Director Nana Dakin, this time as composer/instrumentalist for a wonderful week of exploration and devising with some magical people.

• Breaking the Binary Grief Circle December 30th

  Honored to be co-leading this grief circle for our trans community as we gather together in our mourning. Zoom link here.

• NYC 14th Annual Son Jarocho Festival

  Flushing Town Hall November 9th

  So happy to be performing at the festival again with my beloved Son Papalotl. We’ll see you for the performances and then after for the fandango!

• fresno’s fire + flood are in the pool again

  ART/NY October 7th

  Eeeeeek!!! Getting to do a piece about an indigenous family written by brilliant indigenous storyteller, Vanessa Pereda is just as dreamy as it gets. Delighted to be playing with this amazing cast, led by Mino Lora.

JUST MISSED:

• Working Up Surrender: Collective Healing Experiments

  JACK August 8th and 9th Honored to be joining STARR busby’s magical experiments with some reiki and card readings

• Untitled Softball Play New Georges August 16th

  EllaRose Chary strikes again in this very new, very cool play we get to workshop and read for an invited audience.

• Sex And The Abbey Brick Theater Aug 23rd - Sept 7th Tix

  Having a blast getting to play the first recorded female playwright in Europe. Join Hrotsvit and her students for some hijinx at the Abbey

Jen Anaya (they/them) is a queer Indigenous Mexican American theater/music/art/ritual space maker, doula, energy healer and baby whisperer born and raised in the desert of Yavapaiv Apache, Cocopah and O'odham land.

A proud jack of all trades, they have performed in rock bands, web series, art installations, plays, operas, films, solo shows, healing rituals and musicals throughout Munsee Lenape land, Turtle Island and the world. From La Mama to The Kitchen, Harvard Art Lab to Radio City Music Hall, La Jolla Playhouse to The Getty Museum, the mountains of Greece to Harpa in Iceland, Jen has been weaving music, theater, art, movement and healing together every chance they get.

They are a founding member of Constellation Chor, a contributor to You Are Here Creations and a 2021 FORGE Fellow.
Jen has gotten to collaborate as an actor, singer, instrumentalist, composer and sound healing practitioner with Trinity Rep, LILLETH, Playground NYC, San Diego REP, Rhinebeck Writer's Retreat, The Tank, Loom Ensemble, Denman Theater and Dance Company and Broadway Advocacy Coalition. They are a certified Reiki and 13th Octave La Ho Chi practitioner. When not working on a contract, Jen can be found making nurturing spaces with their healing arts practice De Luz Healing, having fun with the young folks at the 52nd St. Project, playing with their bands and working on an immersive multi-disciplinary piece that focuses on the possibilities of healing of intergenerational trauma.