Ana
Guigui is a transplanted New Yorker presently living in
Los Angeles. ("I love L.A.!"). She was classically
trained in piano, flute, and viola before maturing into
an accomplished singer, songwriter, keyboardist and
actress. Ana has recorded and/or sung live with Ben
Folds, Chip Taylor, Jon Secada, Deborah Gibson, Stephen
Bishop, Andrew Gold, AMERICA, Juan Gabriel, Bo Bice (to
name a few), and toured as a keyboardist/vocalist with
Christopher Cross for seven years. Ana is an independent
artist and her second C.D., Love Is On The Line,
produced by Andrew Gold (“Lonely Boy”, “Thank You For
Being a Friend”), was released on January 20th, 2006.
Ana is an accomplished, professional actress as well.
Ana's film and television acting credits include a
featured bridesmaid in "My Ex-Girlfriend's Wedding
Reception", as well as a bridesmaid on HBO's "The
Sopranos" (always a bridesmaid, never a bride!), a
co-starring role on Lifetime's "Strong Medicine", and a
recurring role on ABC’s "General Hospital". Ana is
featured as "Tarzana" in the National Lampoon romantic
comedy "Cattle Call", recently released on DVD. (To view
trailer, http://showcaseentertainment.com/). Ana can be
seen in two other independent feature films, "Changing
Hearts" (starring Faye Dunaway and Tom Skerritt), and
"Swing" (starring Jacqueline Bissett, Jonathan Winters
and Tom Skerritt), both released and available on DVD.
Theatrical credits include the U.S. National Tour of
Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story and the 2003 Los Angeles
incarnation of "Tony 'n Tina's Wedding" where she
reprised her Off-Broadway role, among other credits. (www.anaguigui.com)
Originally directed by Richard Kline (“Larry” on
“Three’s Company”), and currently being directed by
Robert Lyon Barker, God Box is Ana "Guigui’s" (that's "gui"
as in "gui-tar") autobiographical musical comedy set in
the piano lounge at the Doubletree Hotel on Wilshire
Boulevard. She tells and sings of her co-dependent
Argentinean Jewish family life, her professional musical
career, and her soul mate journey. Ana self-produced and
performed a six-week run of God Box at the Actors Forum
Theatre in North Hollywood in the summer of 2009,
financed by a generous grant from the Hispanic
Scholarship Fund. (www.HSF.org) God Box is a recipient
of the L.A. 2009 Artistic Director Achievement Awards
(ADA) for “Best One-Person Play or Musical.”
Ana received her Master of Arts Degree in Opera/Voice
Performance at Claremont Graduate University, and has
received a scholarship to pursue her DMA (Doctorate of
Musical Arts) in Opera/Vocal Arts at USC in 2010. Ana
teaches “commercial voice” and jazz piano at
Cal/Polytechnic University/Pomona, and also teaches
Musical Theater at the Lee Strasberg Institute in West
Hollywood.
Ana was born in New York City to Argentinean parents,
hence a native bilingual in Spanish and English. She
hails from a family of music professionals - her father,
Efrain Guigui was an accomplished symphony orchestra
conductor, her mother, Elena, is a former operatic
soprano, and her brother, Martin, is a musician in his
own rite, music producer, screenwriter and independent
feature film director, also living in Los Angeles. |