Guillermo Gómez-Peña

Biography

Guillermo Gómez-Peña is a Mexican/Chicano performance artist, writer, activist, and educator. Gómez-Peña has created work in multiple media, including performance art, experimental radio, video, photography and installation art. His ten books include essays, experimental poetry, performance scripts and chronicles in both English, Spanish and Spanglish.

Personal Facts

Known For

Acting

Gender

male

Known Credits

14

Birth Date

1955-09-23 00:00:00

Birth Place

Mexico City, Mexico

Known For

• 

  A Song Often Played on the Radio
• 

  Bizarre Thanksgiving Performance Ritual
• 

  The Great Mojado Invasion, Part 2
• 

  Instant Identity Ritual
• 

  Son of Border Crisis
• 

  Border Brujo

Credits

• actors (10 credits)

  • Playing with Fire: An Ecosexual Emergency

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2025
  • A Song Often Played on the Radio

    actor

    actors
    2019
  • Bizarre Thanksgiving Performance Ritual

    actor

    actors
    2013
  • The Great Mojado Invasion, Part 2

    actor

    actors
    2011
  • Instant Identity Ritual

    actor

    actors
    2007
  • Frontierland

    Supermojado / NaftAzteca

    actor

    actors
    1995
  • The Couple in the Cage

    actor

    actors
    1993
  • Son of Border Crisis

    Self

    actor

    actors
    1992
  • Seeing Is Believing

    Man in Camera Store

    actor

    actors
    1992
  • Border Brujo

    Self

    actor

    actors
    1990

• directing (4 credits)

  • Bizarre Thanksgiving Performance Ritual

    director

    directing
    2013
  • Instant Identity Ritual

    director

    directing
    2007
  • A Declaration of Poetic Disobedience from the New Border

    director

    directing
    2005
  • Welcome to the Third World

    director

    directing
    2004