ARTIST BIOGRAPHY:
Miami and Brooklyn-based and Venezuelan-born, Migguel Anggelo is an interdisciplinary performing artist. He invokes muses from art history, harnessing this lineage in effortlessly forward-thinking ways. He mines from his journeys as a Latino immigrant and a queer man: a fountain of source material to explore shared human experiences. He expresses himself through costume, musical composition, movement, and theater work, evoking the “showmanship of Desi Arnaz and the performance art of Klaus Nomi” (Theater Scene). His lyrical movement recalls Marcel Marceau, and his comic timing alludes to Charlie Chaplin. Marked by pop ambition, he nods towards the likes of David Bowie and Freddie Mercury. With unabashed theatricality, Migguel Anggelo straddles decades, genres, and cultures.
From 2023 to 2024, Migguel rigorously developed and toured his outrageously queer and gender-bending theatrical experience, LatinXoxo, presented as part of the illustrious Under the Radar Festival in January of 2023, and then on tour as part of the series of Stanford Live, the Musco Center for the Arts, the Green Music Center, the BRAVA Theater Center, the Miami Light Project, the Kravis Center for the Performing Arts, the International Latino Cultural Center of Chicago, and others. In LatinXoxo, Migguel Anggelo peels back onion layers of personas while strip-teasing “Latin lover” clichés, reckoning with the tragic death of his homophobic and disapproving father.
Migguel Anggelo is currently developing a trilogy of distinct projects: English with an Accent, JOY, and ICONS. All three of these projects have been generously supported through the co-commissioning and presentation support of the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York City. English with an Accent previewed in Washington D.C. in April of 2022, co-presented by Washington Performing Arts and Gala Hispanic Theatre. It was also a co-commission of Lincoln Center, presented at Clark Studio Theater in December of 2022. English with an Accent has received additional co-commissioning support from the Cultural Arts Center at Montgomery College, the Hult Center for the Performing Arts, and Russell J. Efros Sprout Foundation award, with residency support provided by MASS MoCA. JOY premiered at Lincoln Center as part of the Festival of Firsts in 2023, and the first episode of Migguel Anggelo's performance series called ICONS will be a community celebration of the musical legacy of Freddie Mercury, debuting at the David Rubenstein Atrium at Lincoln Center in December of 2024.
Migguel Anggelo has also developed the short film, Maid in America (2020) and the stage productions So Close: Love and Hate (2017), Another Son of Venezuela (2016-2015), and Welcome to La Misa, Baby (2016-2019). His discography includes English with an Accent (2022), La Casa Azul (2015), and Donde Estara Matisse (2012). Migguel Anggelo is also an accomplished visual artist, with previous public gallery presentations and acquisitions into private collections.