Director

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During the summer of 2018, Giovanni

co-directed La Madre de los Todos Exilios, The Mother of All  Exiles at La Casa Tercer Acto in Barrio Lourdes in Bogotá, in collaboration with Tricklock Theatre Co.

As a filmmaker, he directed and produced Upon the Fragile Shore, which was screened at the 32nd Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival & The NoPassport Theatre Conference Dreaming the Americas: Who is it for? He also produced six short films entitled Green shorts: films (re)imagining our troubled environment including his screenplay El Pescador y La Lluvia, The Fisherman and The Rain. The films were part of VisionLA Fest, COPOUT at the Arts House Theatre in Melbourne & University of Panamá. These screenings were presented as part of ARTCOP21, a global initiative for cultural activity in Climate Change.

Furthermore, he's been traveling to Australia to work with theatre and community organizations. What started out as a resident scholar position in Playwriting Australia’s National Play Festival has expanded to an artist-in-residence opportunity with Philippine-Australian Arts, Culture and Innovation Central, National Theatre of Parramatta and one of Sydney Biennale's cultural adviser. 

Next door in Singapore, their work at the Haque Centre of Acting and Creativity (HCAC) entitled The Body Series culminated. The devised theatrical plays included Creation of My Body, Words of My Body and Thoughts of My Body. At the same time,  National Poetry Festival Singapore commissioned Ranice Tay, a Sinagporean artist and Giovanni to write/perform a piece with the theme of ‘In Spirit.’ Benches is a coming-of-age, two-person poetic play on love, loss, and what it means for some stories to stay with us forever. The following year, alongside Zora Imani Smith, they presented another Poetry Festival commissioned work entitled 'Palindromes,' this time delving into music and the parallel between Malay Indigeneity and the Filipino Immigrant experience.

A Guest Artist for Boska Komedia - Divine Comedy Festival 2017 in Kraków, Poland and a Cabaret performer at Galerie St St in Neukölln, Berlin. Giovanni has also facilitated performance workshops at London Dramatic Academy and directed What the Butler Saw at Upstage Bern in Switzerland. Allos, The Story of Carlos Bulosan was presented  in Styria, Austria as well as  Kamapala International Theatre Festival in Uganda. Additional credits include musicals: Cabaret, Urinetown, Spring Awakening and plays: Scrimmage (East West Players), The Hotel Play (Playwright's Arena/Centre Theatre Group), Government Inspector, Convergence Zone, In the Next Room, 

The House of the Spirits, Medieval Mystery Plays The Last Firefly (Artist at Play/CTG). 

He was also the co-producer for Beyond Our Outward Guise: Filipino American Stories at the 

Pasadena Playhouse.