César Cadabes is a Queer Filipino-American writer and solo performance artist/activist who has presented his work for the Resilience Archives’ Performing Visible Resilience; Coming to America in May 2017 and Anal Sex in May 2018. He introduced his solo work-in-progress #Resist, directed by Kat Evasco, at Bindlestiff Studio’s 2018 production of Queer as Fuck. #Resist was selected to be performed at the 2018 APAture Performing Arts Showcase, an annual multidisciplinary arts festival celebrating emerging Asian and Pacific Islander artists in San Francisco. César was a recipient of an Individual Artist Commission grant from the San Francisco Arts Commission in 2020 to expand #Resist into full-length solo performance.

In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, #Resist was retitled Not My First Pandemic,. It first workshopped in June 2021 in San Francisco and in November 2021, at the United Solo Festival at Theater Row in New York City where it received the Best One-Man Show Award and the All About Solo Critics' Award. In September 2022, César presented Not My First Pandemic, his first full-length solo show, as part of the inaugural With You Festival at the Brava Theater Center in San Francisco.

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César was a 2021 and 2022 artist-in-residence at the Queer Cultural Center. In addition to his solo performance work, Cesar is currently the Artistic Director of GAPA Theatre, mentoring an intergenerational collective of Queer Asian and Pacific Islander performers and storytellers. He has produced GAPA Theatre’s work at Bindlestiff Studio, Asian Art Museum and the Legion of Honor Museum.  César also serves as a member of the Advisory Board of the Castro LGBTQ Cultural District.

César received his second individual artist grant from the San Francisco Arts Commission in 2022 for his newest project, tentatively titled, Decolonizing My(Self), to be presented in 2023.