Natalia Guerrero
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  Natalia Guerrero

Performance work

immersed in an environment of scientific exploration, a high-stakes search for meaning, i found my voice as a writer of words meant for action and actions meant for understanding.

SOUND MOVES

A solo improvisation responding to Xiaowei Cao's piece, Portraits of Death, inspired by Katerie Gladdys's video work, Continuous Compost. This work was part of SOUND MOVES, a collaboration between the UF School of Music and School of Theatre and Dance, in which composers created works for a string quartet inspired by pieces in the Harn Museum for the In Our Time exhibition of work by UF School of Art + Art History faculty.
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Still from SOUND MOVES dance improvisation. Photo credit: Quadry Chance.

Story of a Photon

The story of a particle of light traveling from a distant star to an observer here on Earth. The photon and the observer move through time and space into connection and contact with each other in a performance work which incorporates devised theatre and movement to explore the emotional, cultural, physical, and theoretical layers of our relationship with the light that comes from the night sky.
Workshop premiere at the Harn Museum of Art Eyes to the Sky: Art after Dark event, Gainesville, FL, 2024.

Respiration meditation

A guided visualization meditation which travels from the atmosphere of a distant extrasolar planet to an observer on Earth. In the meditation, participants experience “analytic wonder,” a state of simultaneously perceiving the night sky through technical and intuitive layers of comprehension.
Premiered at David Ibbett's Octave of Light, Mosesian Center for the Arts, Watertown, MA, 2021.


​songs from extrasolar spaces

Created a multi-media vocal music concert celebrating the exoplanet discoveries by NASA's TESS mission including original works composed by Elena Ruehr and performed by the Lorelei Ensemble. 
TESS Science Conference I at MIT, July 30, 2019
​Read more here: link

Catalyze

Founding member of Catalyze playwrights group (2016-present) for emerging playwrights interested in merging science, diversity and theatre.
The group is part of the Central Square Theater Student Advisory Council for Catalyst Collaborative@MIT.

Megahertz express

April 2018
The Drake Equation Plays is a Catalyze play series inspired by the Drake equation. Performed as a pre-show table read for The Women Who Mapped the Stars at Central Square Theatre. Watch here: link

War on the 3rd Floor

"The Doctor," semi-staged reading as part of MIT It's Alive! play reading series
MIT Theater Arts, February 28 2018
Directed by Anna Kohler, written by Pavel Kohut in a translation by Liz Diamond. 

Everybody

 Played "Cousinship"
Developed movement vocabulary for the danse macabre
MIT Theater Arts, November 9-11, 16-18 2017
Directed by Anna Kohler, written by Brandon Jacobs-Jenkins

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Acting opposite Hunter Richardson in MIT Production of Everybody. Photo credit Jon Sachs.

NEVERSLEEP

Listen
(excerpt, performed by
​Caitlin Gjerdrum)
In a dreamy micro-opera, a woman must face dark forces overwhelming her world while conquering her own inner demons.
Live oratorio-style performance of seven-song musical episode.
​Libretto by Natalia Guerrero, music by Eli Roberts.
November 2016 - Eli Roberts Presents concert series, Boston, MA
May 2016 - Weird Folk Fest Music Theater Extravaganza
Aeronaut Brewery, Somerville, MA
August 2015 - Xenogogue House Concert, Allston, MA

Earlier workshop versions performed:
  • May 2015 - Radio performance on Charles River Variety on 88.1 FM WMBR-Cambridge
  • April 2015 - Live semi-staged performance at The Cloud Club, Boston, MA
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Stephanie Cheng as Maria and Claire Treyz as Luna in performance of Potential. Photo credit Jonah Ko.

Potential

May 2014
"...Imagine them in that tiny little ship, those faces staring at each other, each person realizing that those are the last people they’ll ever see. Their last sight will be those faces in that little ship and the black nothing. Freezing slowly, running out of air, knowing the whole time that this shouldn’t have happened. Knowing that there are people back on Earth still alive, warm, breathing, safe, who failed them. People who will still go on with their lives, no matter how deeply this is supposed to affect them, people who will continue to think they still have the luxury of wasting time..."
​MIT Playwrights in Performance, Cambridge, MA
Live theatrical performance of one-act play, Potential, written for MIT course 21M.785 Playwrights' Workshop.
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Script was awarded First Prize in Boit Manuscript Prize in the 2014 Ilona Karmel Writing Prizes

Sad News

September 2016
Tales from the Homefront, MIT, Cambridge, MA
Sad News​, spoken-word poem.
Live reading by anonymous individuals of collected reflections on the MIT academic and mental health experience

The grocery store is in the back

March 2016
88.1 WMBR-Cambridge
Four people experience the uncertainty of passing from life to death and its inherent decoupling from the normal parameters of space and time.
Live table reading by Charles River Variety ensemble.

THE FRIDAY PASSION

Excerpts adapted to an orchestral suite in 2020 by Nik Rodewald.
March 2016
88.1 WMBR-Cambridge
Live reading of ten original poetic texts based on the events of Christ's Passion described in the Gospel of Mark.
Accompanied by Eli Roberts on acoustic guitar.

Girl In Space

Spring 2014
88.1 FM WMBR-Cambridge
Episodic science fiction radio drama in five parts.
​Script by Natalia Guerrero, music and sound effects by Nik Rodewald.
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