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Dan Guerrero Interviewed by Carolina A CSRC ORAL HISTORIES SERIES NO. 16, MARCH 2014 DAN GUERRERO INTERVIEWED BY CAROLINA A. MIRANDA ON JULY 17 AND 18, 2013 Dan Guerrero, acclaimed for his one-man theatrical production ¡Gaytino!, began his entertainment career in New York in 1962, first as a performer and then as a theatrical agent. After twenty years he returned home to Los Angeles, where he was a casting director for stage and television before turning to producing and directing. He has been an independent producer for network and cable television programming in both English and Spanish, including talk shows and music specials. Carolina A. Miranda is an independent cultural journalist based in Southern California covering everything from fine art video games to architectural pedagogy. A former staff reporter at Time magazine, her stories have also appeared in ARTnews, Fast Company, Architect and Art in America. She is also a regular contributor to National Public Radio and its popular Los Angeles affiliate KCRW. This interview was conducted as part of the LGBT and Mujeres Initiative project. Preferred citation: Dan Guerrero, interview with Carolina Miranda, July 17 and 18, 2013, Los Angeles, California. CSRC Oral Histories Series, no. 16. Los Angeles: UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center Press, 2014. CSRC Oral Histories Series © 2014 Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. Interview © 2013 Dan Guerrero. Do not reproduce without permission. THE CSRC ORAL HISTORIES SERIES The CSRC Oral Histories Series publishes the life narratives of prominent Chicano and Latino figures. The life narratives have been recorded and transcribed, and the interviewer and interviewee have reviewed and corrected the transcriptions prior to publication. These oral histories are often undertaken as part of a larger research project and in tandem with archival collections and library holdings. CSRC ORAL HISTORY SERIES PROJECTS L.A. Xicano documents the history of Chicana/o art in Los Angeles with a focus on artists, collectives, and art organizations. The project resulted in new museum and library exhibitions, public programs, archival collections, and scholarly publications. These efforts were part of the Getty Foundation initiative Pacific Standard Time: Art in L.A., 1945–1980. The project received support from Getty Foundation, Annenberg Foundation, Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, and California Community Foundation. Related support includes funding from Ralph M. Parsons Foundation, AltaMed Health Services Corporation, Entravision Communications Corporation, Walt Disney Company, and individual donors. A Ver: Revisioning Art History stems from the conviction that individual artists and their coherent bodies of work are the foundation for a meaningful and diverse art history. This book series explores the cultural, aesthetic, and historical contributions of Chicano, Puerto Rican, Cuban, Dominican, and other U.S. Latino artists. The A Ver project is made possible through the generous support of Getty Foundation, Ford Foundation, Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Joan Mitchell Foundation, JPMorgan Chase Foundation, and The Rockefeller Foundation. The LGBT and Mujeres Initiative seeks to increase archival and oral history holdings that document the Chicano/Latino presence in LGBT and women’s histories, the role of women and LGBT people in Chicano/ Latino histories, and the importance of gender, sexuality, and ethnicity in “mainstream” scholarly research and archival institutions. The project receives generous support from the Ford Foundation and individual donors. ARTISTS INTERVIEWED FOR THE LGBT AND MUJERES INITIATIVE PROJECT Dan Guerrero Monica Palacios INTERVIEW WITH DAN GUERRERO July 17, 2013 ............1 July 18, 2013 ...........60 JULY 17, 2013 Dan Guerrero: Well, I’m Dan Guerrero and I do a lot of things. I like variety. So I produce and I direct and I per- form, but it all boils down to show business. That’s been my life. It’s always been my life. I grew up with it. It’s all I ever wanted to do. It’s all I have ever done, so that’s it. Carolina Miranda: Which brings me to the first question which is, you have led a very eclectic—within that, you’ve led a very eclectic life. DG: Correct. CM: You grew up in East LA but spent two decades in New York. You worked as a performer but also as a talent manager and producer. You’ve been an activist and you’ve managed your dad’s career. What do you think ties all of this together? What’s been the constant in your life? DG: The constant in my life, well, the obvious answer would be show business, entertainment. Because although I’ve had many incarnations, they’re all within that same genre, and they all made sense. One kind of led to another. But I would say, if I had to pull out a word, I would say the constant would be that I always—the choices and decisions I made were to move forward. Everything moved forward for me. Per- sonally, career-wise, it was always, “Okay, what is the next step that will move me forward?” I’m very big on not moving back or losing . I’m all about moving ahead. Even at this stage of my life, I’m still looking for that next thing, that next challenge, that next—I get bored easily, you know, so sometimes . And PS: I think it’s important to know that all those things I did were and are for real. You know, I’ll see people’s résumés, you know: singer, dancer, actor, voice-over. Yeah, they do them all for like five minutes, and maybe not well. I mean, I was a performer for many years. I was a theatrical agent on Broadway for like twelve, fourteen years. Moved back to LA, was casting for a couple of years. Then I’ve been producing, directing for the last fifteen. And then more recently I’ve gone back to performing. So I do all those for real. They’re not just words on a résumé. CM: Not just once. DG: No, no. And I do them all pretty well, I’d like to think. CM: If you’ve been doing this this long, I would hope so. DG: I would hope so. I’ve paid my bills all these years by doing it, so— CM: Perfect, that’s the— DG: Sometimes that’s all the career boils down to, you know: paying your bills. CM: All right. So let’s go back to the early years. I’d love it if you could give me an overview of who—a brief overview of who your parents are and, you know, what were they doing and where were they at the time you were born? DG: Both my parents were born and raised in Tucson, Arizona. My dad came from a Mexican-born mom and dad, Concepción and Eduardo Guerrero. She was from Sonora, some town I can’t pronounce. He was from La Paz, Baja [California]. They came up around the Mexican Revolution time because he was—my tata was an expert boilermaker for the Mexican Navy, and the Southern Pacific railroad was down there looking for skilled laborers. And I’m sure my nana and tata thought, “Well, let’s get out of here.” With the revolution. Off they came, so all the kids they had were born in the United States and they were born in Tucson. So my dad was born and raised there. 1 CSRC ORAL HISTORIES SERIES My mother came from a Mexican-born mother, Fermina Corral. My mom’s mother was from Durango. Again, I don’t know where but the state of Durango. Her father was first generation Irish American. His name was Marmion, Charles Francis and he was a mining engineer. He’s born in San Antonio. His parents were from Dublin. So he was down there working the mines. That’s where he met Fermina. The Marmions were not happy with that little left turn, I will tell you that. But my mother grew up very mexicana because her father died when she was like five. So she was raised by her mother. So my parents met. My dad was a musician always, always, and he was . She was sixteen when they met, he was like twenty, twenty-one. Only boyfriend she ever had. They married when she was seventeen. I was born when she was eighteen, in Tucson at the Stork’s Nest, which was a maternity hospital. My dad was at that time with a group called Los Carlistas, a quartet. That was his first musical group. Legend has it that when he—of course he was working. I mean in showbiz, “Okay, have the baby but I’m working.” You know? And when they told him the baby was born, he rushed over there and he went into the nursery which you could do in those days and he grabbed me. He was on his way to the Charro Café with me and they were, “No, no, no, no, no! You can’t take the baby out there.” But I never lived in Tucson because my dad had to come to LA to follow his career. So I grew up in East LA. CM: You were the firstborn? DG: Yes. CM: So it’s you and your— DG: My brother, Mark. Mark Anthony Guerrero. He is nine years my junior and he lives out in Palm Springs. He’s a very gifted musician himself. CM: And when is your birthday? DG: October 14. You want the year? I’m proud of it. Nineteen-forty. I’m seventy-two. CM: And looking damn good. DG: I’m still trying to break into showbiz. That’s all it is. CM: The dream never goes away.
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