Carmen Aguirre is an author, playwright, actor, and director.

Her first book, Something Fierce: Memoirs of a Revolutionary Daughter, published in 2011, is a gripping, darkly comic first-hand account of a young underground revolutionary during the Pinochet dictatorship in 1980s Chile. It won CBC Canada Reads in 2012 and is an international bestseller.

Her second memoir, Mexican Hooker #1: Art, Love, and Forgiveness After Trauma, is about finding meaning in life and one's voice as an artist, and of developing the strength to confront and overcome a childhood trauma. It is an international bestseller.

Aguirre has written and co-written over twenty-five plays, including The Refugee Hotel, The Trigger, and Anywhere But Here. Her new play Fire Never Dies: The Tina Modotti Project is premiering in fall, 2025 in Vancouver.

She has over eighty film, tv, and stage acting credits.

She is a proud member of CAEA/UBCP/ACTRA/WGC/PGC, and co-founder of UBCP's Latinx Subcommittee.

Aguirre is a Core Artist at Electric Company Theatre:electriccompanytheatre.com

Aguirre's film and television acting credits on imdb: IMDb Carmen Aguirre

Literary agent: cookemcdermid.com

Acting agent: universalartistsmanagement.com

Carmen's Upcoming Events in 2025

I will be doing a pre-show talk on May 2nd at 7pm at the RBC Cinema before Ana Tijoux's concert at The Chan Centre in Vancouver. Ana, a renowned Chilean rapper, was also raised in exile. I will connect our stories through readings of old and new work.
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Carmen Aguirre's new play in development, The Consent Club, an adaptation of Moliere's The Learned Ladies, will receive its first ever public reading at Ruby Slippers' Advance Theatre Festival in January. Set on a North American university campus, this satire about zealotry, hypocritical puritanism, and sexual paranoia follows our horny heroine Anita as she tries to get laid at the height of the #MeToo movement. Get your tickets here