Lore Gonzales

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pronouns: they/them

Lore is a Filipino-American, non-binary interdisciplinary artist, theatermaker, and teaching artist based in Oakland, CA. They were born in the Philippines and grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area after immigrating to the US with their parents when they were three years old.  With a background in visual art, theater, music, digital and multimedia content, and community building, Lore’s artistic work often reflects their lived experience of being a Queer and Trans Filipinx-Person of Color. Their art often conjures up a dreamlike reality that holds infinite space for them and others to commune with their ghosts that evoke senses of longing and belonging, the subconscious, queerness, diaspora, duality, resilience, movement, and transitions. They primarily work with and specialize in digital and analog photography, multimedia and film, experimental theater and performance, poetry, music, and everything in between. Over the years they have collaborated and performed with various companies in the Bay Area, notably with Shotgun Players, Bindlestiff Studio, Cutting Ball Theater, ShadowLight Productions, For You, SF Playhouse, SF Shakes, Cal Shakes, Theaterworks, and Berkeley Rep. They received a BA in Theater & Performance Studies from UC Berkeley and have also studied with American Conservatory Theater, the SITI Company, Dell’Arte School of Physical Theater, and California College for the Arts. Outside of making art, you can find them adventuring around the globe, tending to their plants and garden, testing recipes in their kitchen, reading horoscopes (they are a Libra Sun, Cancer Moon, + Virgo Rising), and walking their pup Arya. Follow their various projects at loregonzales.com.