Carmen Aguirre

CARMEN AGUIRRE is a Vancouver-based writer and theatre artist who has worked extensively in North and South America. She has written or co-written twenty plays, including The Refugee Hotel , which was nominated for a 2010 Dora Mavor Moore Award for best new play. Her most recent one-woman show is Blue Box . Aguirre has sixty film, TV, and stage acting credits, including lead roles in the Showcase series Endgame and Quincea�era , winner of the Grand Jury Prize and the Audience Award at the...See more

CARMEN AGUIRRE is a Vancouver-based writer and theatre artist who has worked extensively in North and South America. She has written or co-written twenty plays, including The Refugee Hotel , which was nominated for a 2010 Dora Mavor Moore Award for best new play. Her most recent one-woman show is Blue Box . Aguirre has sixty film, TV, and stage acting credits, including lead roles in the Showcase series Endgame and Quincea�era , winner of the Grand Jury Prize and the Audience Award at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival. Her first memoir, Something Fierce , won Canada Reads in 2012, was a finalist for the Charles Taylor Prize, and was a #1 national bestseller. See less