For the Love of Spam 🔥

In her latest project, Sierra has written and performed in her one-woman show ‘For the Love of Spam’. This show is multidisciplinary, as a comedic stand-up, puppetry, participatory, and multisensory performance dedicated to two things: canned meat and colonialism. In it, we’ll find out how this (delicious) canned meat symbolizes modern-day colonialism, and threatens the very livelihood of a whole civilization in these ‘West vs East’ political games. Can this formerly catholic, angry and god-fearing woman help educate (and feed) the masses, all while ‘liberating’ her island?

Working with Pentabus Theatre, Sierra wrote and performed an educational workshop for Shropshire Book Fest, teaching young kids how to write a dialogue. This was then recorded and shared on YouTube. The goal of the workshop was to support teachers and pupils devise and perform a dialogue based on any of the Big Book Award 2022 shortlisted titles to enter into the Creative Response Competition - Big Book Award 2022.

Sierra directed the first ever islandwide touring show, featuring Lin Manuel Miranda’s mini musical ‘21 Chump Street’. She directed the musical, coordinated the tour and wrote/facilitated the post-show workshop, where young people were asked to reflect on the themes of peer pressure and drug use - something extremely relevant to the local community in Guam.

Podcast plays 📻

Sierra directed two radio dramas that told the story of ancient CHamoru legends. CHamoru people are indigenous to Guam, and these legends have been passed down from generation to generation, featuring stories about how the island and it’s people came to be. Sierra directed a worldwide/diasporic cast in the legend of ‘Puntan & Fu’una’ and ‘The Mermaids who Save Guam’.