Monica Garrido Huerta

Bio

Monica Garrido Huerta (she/her)  is a Queer Dora-nominated bilingual Artist, a new Canadian from Monterrey, Nuevo León based in Tkaronto. Her short films have premiered at the InsideOut LGBT Film Festival. Her solo show “The Cunning Linguist”, was created at Emerging Creator Unit at Buddies In Bad Times Theatre and won the 2016 Queer Acts Audience Award. Monica has appeared in commercials, music videos and TV in shows such as Baroness Von Sketch Show and The Horror of Dolores Roach. She’s part of the ensemble of the Canadian Comedy Award winning show Sketch Comedy Extravaganza Eleganza. Monica is the 2018 recipient of the Queer Emerging Artist Award at Buddies in Bad Times Theatre.

Her stage work includes: “Private Eyes” (lemonTree Creations),“Youth/Elder project” (Buddies in Bad Times), “Universal Child Care” (Quote Unquote Collective) “El Terremoto” (Tarragon Theatre).

She is one third of the Latine Drag King boyband “Boyband the Boyband”.

Currently, you can see her every weekend as a cast member of the Second City Touring Company.  She is also a Taurus and wishes you the best.