Jen Anaya
AEA, SAG-AFTRA
Actor/Singer/Musician/Teacher/writer/healer/Doula
Jen Anaya
AEA, SAG-AFTRA
Actor/Singer/Musician/Teacher/writer/healer/Doula
COMING UP:
*Working Up a 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
JUST MISSED:
Least of My Children Berkeley Rep July 21st
What a dream to head to CA and work more deeply on this gorgeous opera at Berkeley Rep’s Ground Floor.
cunnicularii Good Apples Collective June 28th - July 13th Tix
Gonna get into some Grandma drag for this funny, poignant and sweetly strange play by the fabulous Sophie McIntosh
Creation Story Notch Theater Co May 30th RSVP here
Living my best composer/actor/musician dreams as we workshop this exciting piece by Octavia Chavez-Richmond. Music by me!
Goddesses Return To The Temple Live & In Color April29th 7pm Balance Arts RSVP here
One of my most favorite plays to come out of the last 10 years, I am delighted to join the brilliant director Mei Ann Teo in bringing the incredible Raquel Almazán’s third installment of her Sextrilogy.
Jen Anaya (they/them) is a queer Indigenous Mexican 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.