Techies can come and go, but this artistic couple s love story is in S.F. to stay
Lily Janiak February 10, 2021Updated: February 14, 2021, 7:29 pm
Fontana Butterfield Guzmán (left) and Mary Guzmán with their 12-year-old son, Orlando Guzmán. Photo: Gabrielle Lurie, The Chronicle
When Fontana Butterfield Guzmán and Mary Guzmán unreel their 25-year love story, it’s as if they’re storyboarding the next San Francisco film the kind that indelibly ties the city’s grand, iconic sites to human lives; lives that are smaller, perhaps, but no less grand.
Theirs isn’t the kind of California story that provokes fatuous debates in national publications about whether the West Coast’s promise is over. Guzmán, a director for stage and screen, and Butterfield Guzmán, a performer and improv coach, are not young rich tech bros huffily broadcasting their departure. The couple were here before that crowd, and they vow to be here long after.