Hafa adai and kamusta! Sierra is a CHamoru/Filipina multidisciplinary theatremaker in London, originally from the island of Guam. She is an ESEA artist who has worked in theatre as a facilitator, director and now writer/performer. She is passionate about using theatre to shift immigrant narratives, telling unique and diasporic stories that directly challenge the current political immigration rhetoric. She received her MA in Applied Theatre from the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, and went on to help start theatre companies here in the UK and in Guam. She creates art showcasing and celebrating the diaspora, as she believes that embracing these narratives can help fight political rhetoric demonising immigrants.

Sierra is the recipient of several grants, including an Arts Council grant and a Guam Council for Arts & Humanities award. Sierra is a recent graduate of the New Earth Performance Academy. She has received a 2023 Seed Commission from Camden People’s Theatre for her one-woman show ‘For the Love of Spam’. She’s gone on to showcase her play at the Network for Emerging Artists and Professionals Festival (NEAPfest) in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in 2023. She has also had a sold-out run at the Pleasance Futures Festival in December 2023, and has now received their Charlie Hartill Fund to perform at Edinburgh Fringe in 2024. She will also be touring ‘For the Love of Spam’ in the UK and internationally between 2024 and 2025, starting with a tour to Hawaii with the Consortium of Asian American Theaters & Artists in May 2024.

Sierra dreams of creating and touring theatre about the diasporic Guamanian & Filipino experience. She wants to use her unique experience growing up in Guam to showcase injustices and political issues in the East, thus combining her art with her activism. She also wants to collaborate and devise work with other ESEA artists, to put our immigrant experiences out on the main stages of the world.