Bio
Photo by Jesse Saler
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Juztine has been performing, directing, & working at theaters all around California since 1989. Juztine’s directorial projects at OB Playhouse, Green Day’s: American Idiot and Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead, won the 2019 BroadwayWorld San Diego Awards for Best Musical and Best Play. Ze also directed Reefer Madness, & I Love You Because at OBP, as well as being seen on stage in: Hair & I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change. Favorite directing credits include: Hedwig & the Angry Inch at Patio Playhouse (winner of the 2022 Patio Playhouse award for Best Director) Oak & Linden (which ze co-wrote & conceived with Rachel Nicole Pierce for the SD International Fringe Festival); A Bright Room Called Day & the World Premiere, "56, 69, 96, Now" (Stonewall 24-Hour Play Experience) with Breakthrough Workshop Theatre; Xanadu Jr., High School Musical at Camp Jaycee.
On stage & off, Juztine has worked at La Jolla Playhouse, The Old Globe, Cygnet Theatre, Diversionary Theatre, Breakthrough Workshop, Ion Theatre, the Disneyland Resort, & more. Ze has a Bachelor of Arts in Theater & Performance Studies and Gender & Women's Studies from The University of California, Berkeley. |
Directorial MANIFESTO
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I direct to work with diverse voices in collaboration on creating all-encompassing encounters in the theater that encourage audiences to resist passive consumption and consensually participate in the experience. I find new ways to bring audiences into their learning zone by using music, dance, imagery, tactical experiences, and language, creating a forum for voices not traditionally amplified in American theater. I challenge traditional notions of “type” that reinforce patriarchal standards as these have been used for so long as ways to exclude Black people, Indigenous People, People of Color, Queer People, People with Disabilities, and so many more, inviting these communities to the table only when the piece is exploiting the very reason the community has been excluded in the first place. I work with styles and genres I love and explore new ones. I create theater I want to see, full of topics close to my heart; I do work I believe in. - Juztine Tuazon-Martin (ze/zir/zirs) |
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Art by Christina Wortman
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 Photo by Shaun Tuazon
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