“I always felt I was doing something right whenever I got to tell my own truth.” Monica Garrido, the 2018 Queer Emerging Artist at Toronto’s Buddies in Bad Times theatre, talks about theatre, finding the freedom to be herself — and how queer characters on Degrassi inspired her move to Canada.
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