Herbert Sigüenza

Other work of Sigüenza's includes Steal Heaven, and El Henry, an adaptation of Shakespeare's Henry IV which was presented at the La Jolla Playhouse in June 2014, and Manifest Destinitis which premiered at the San Diego Rep in their 2016-2017 season. He won the Best New Play San Diego Critics Circle Award in 2014 for his work on El Henry. In 2016, Sigüenza began a three-year playwright residency at the San Diego Rep as a part of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation's National Playwright Residency Program, administered by HowlRound.

Herbert is the brother of Ruben Sigüenza, who played bass for the rock band Mink DeVille. In 2002, he married Adriana Rodrigues. In 2008, he and Adriana had filed for divorce. He has since remarried to his current wife, Samantha. The two have a 6-year-old daughter named Belen.

Herbert began his acting career in 1984 when he co-founded Culture Clash with other members Ric Salinas, Richard Montoya, José Antonio Burciaga, Marga Gómez, and Monica Palacios. Together the group toured the country performing Chicano theater with topics often involving social commentary through the use of satire. While the latter three members went on to eventually drop out of the group, Sigüenza, Salinas, and Montoya still perform together today. Independently of the group, Sigüenza has also had a number of acting, writing, and producing roles.

Herbert was originally trained as an artist and print maker. Examples of his printmaking from the early 1980s can be seen in the collection of the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Shortly after receiving his BFA from California College of Art and Crafts, he served for 10 years as the Art Director at La Raza Silkscreen Center / La Raza Graphics in San Francisco. From there he moved into performing arts and became involved with Teatro Gusto performing in places like the Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts.

Herbert Siguenza (born January 26, 1959) is an American actor, writer, visual artist, and performer based in California. He is best known for co-founding the theater performance group Culture Clash, which is still active since its founding in 1984, more than thirty years later. He is currently the playwright-in-residence at the San Diego Rep and has continued to pursue many solo ventures in addition to his group work.

Sigüenza was born in San Francisco, California on January 23, 1959. He is of Salvadoran descent and spent a portion of his life living in El Salvador with his family before returning to California as a teenager due to civil unrest taking place in the country at the time. Upon his return, he attended the California College of Art and Crafts as a first-generation student and received a BFA in printmaking. At this point, the theater was not something that he knew he had an interest in pursuing.