ABSTRACT
Born in Chile, Carmen Aguirre and her family fled to Vancouver when she was six years old, a result of the 1973 coup d’état. After an early life as a refugee and an adolescence in the Chilean underground resistance, Aguirre has worked as a theatre artist in Canada since the early 1990s. Through her oeuvre and activism, Aguirre expands Canadian history by generating public acts of remembrance that incorporate the Chilean refugee experience, as well as other less visible migration stories through different forms of allyship. In addition to her published plays, she adds over eighty film, television, and stage acting credits.
