Produced Works
Alma
Winner of Arizona Theatre Company's National Latinx Playwriting Award and Winner of American Blues Theater's Blue Ink Playwriting Award.
Working mom Alma has singlehandedly raised her daughter, Angel, on tough love, home-cooked comida, and lots of prayers. But on the eve of the all-important SAT, Alma discovers her daughter isn’t at home studying. A schooling and la chancla await Angel at home—but so does a creeping realization that more’s at stake than just a test score. A sacrifice from Alma’s past weighs heavy on their present; now, Alma fears that her worst nightmare may soon be their reality. Will the American Dream cost them a life together? [synopsis by Cat Rodríguez]
Developed during a residency at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center's National Playwrights Conference in 2018, and with support from the Denver Center for the Performing Arts 2020 Colorado New Play Summit, Seattle Repertory Theatre, and The Playwrights' Center's 2016-17 Many Voices Fellowship.
Working mom Alma has singlehandedly raised her daughter, Angel, on tough love, home-cooked comida, and lots of prayers. But on the eve of the all-important SAT, Alma discovers her daughter isn’t at home studying. A schooling and la chancla await Angel at home—but so does a creeping realization that more’s at stake than just a test score. A sacrifice from Alma’s past weighs heavy on their present; now, Alma fears that her worst nightmare may soon be their reality. Will the American Dream cost them a life together? [synopsis by Cat Rodríguez]
Developed during a residency at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center's National Playwrights Conference in 2018, and with support from the Denver Center for the Performing Arts 2020 Colorado New Play Summit, Seattle Repertory Theatre, and The Playwrights' Center's 2016-17 Many Voices Fellowship.
PRODUCTION HISTORY
Academic Production: Yale Cabaret (New Haven, CT), 2019
World Premiere (in cooperation with American Blues Theater): Center Theatre Group's Kirk Douglas Theatre (Los Angeles, CA), 2022
ArtsWest Playhouse (Seattle, WA), 2022
World Premiere: American Blues Theater (Chicago,IL), 2022
Curious Theatre Company (Denver, CO), 2023
Central Square Theater (Cambridge, MA), 2023
Academic Production: Yale Cabaret (New Haven, CT), 2019
World Premiere (in cooperation with American Blues Theater): Center Theatre Group's Kirk Douglas Theatre (Los Angeles, CA), 2022
ArtsWest Playhouse (Seattle, WA), 2022
World Premiere: American Blues Theater (Chicago,IL), 2022
Curious Theatre Company (Denver, CO), 2023
Central Square Theater (Cambridge, MA), 2023
In His Hands
Recipient of a KCACTF Latinx Playwriting Award and Portland Stage's Clauder Competition Gold Prize.
This is a list of things Christian believes in: logic, banana Laffy Taffy, video games, and Daniel. This is a list of things Christian doesn't believe in: caffeine, alcohol, monogamy, and God. Daniel, a Mario Kart wizard and aspiring Lutheran pastor, is falling for Christian. But as these men explore the potential of their new relationship, voices from Christian's past threaten to overpower the connection they share -- with one another, and something bigger than themselves. [synopsis by Sarah Lunnie]
Developed with support from Texas Tech University's 2019 WildWind Performance Lab in Lubbock, Texas and The Playwrights' Center's 2017-18 McKnight Fellowship in Playwriting.
This is a list of things Christian believes in: logic, banana Laffy Taffy, video games, and Daniel. This is a list of things Christian doesn't believe in: caffeine, alcohol, monogamy, and God. Daniel, a Mario Kart wizard and aspiring Lutheran pastor, is falling for Christian. But as these men explore the potential of their new relationship, voices from Christian's past threaten to overpower the connection they share -- with one another, and something bigger than themselves. [synopsis by Sarah Lunnie]
Developed with support from Texas Tech University's 2019 WildWind Performance Lab in Lubbock, Texas and The Playwrights' Center's 2017-18 McKnight Fellowship in Playwriting.
PRODUCTION HISTORY
Academic Production: Yale School of Drama (New Haven, CT), 2019
World Premiere: Mosaic Theater Company (Washington, DC), 2022
Academic Production: Yale School of Drama (New Haven, CT), 2019
World Premiere: Mosaic Theater Company (Washington, DC), 2022
What / Washed
Ashore / Astray
Twin sisters, Cat and Chris, are reunited in their beloved family cabin on the Pacific Northwest shoreline. But everything has aged: the cottage, their bodies. Then, dead things wash ashore, conch shells become uninhabited, ice caves melt, the water surrounding the cabin comes up higher and higher...and one of them will die within the year.
Developed with support from The Playwrights' Center's 2017-18 McKnight Fellowship in Playwriting and Pillsbury House Theatre (Minneapolis, MN).
Developed with support from The Playwrights' Center's 2017-18 McKnight Fellowship in Playwriting and Pillsbury House Theatre (Minneapolis, MN).
PRODUCTION HISTORY
World Premiere: Pillsbury House + Theatre (Minneapolis, MN), 2023
World Premiere: Pillsbury House + Theatre (Minneapolis, MN), 2023
Unproduced Works
Manning
A father and his sons spread the ashes of his wife/their mother in their backyard garden. When a giant zucchini manifests overnight, they each begin to develop language for their individual experiences of loss through their interactions with the supernatural vegetable. But can they also develop a communal vocabulary to express their grief with each other?
Developed with support from the Dorothy Strelsin New American Writers Group at Primary Stages (NYC).
Developed with support from the Dorothy Strelsin New American Writers Group at Primary Stages (NYC).
PRODUCTION HISTORY
Academic Production: Yale School of Drama (New Haven, CT), 2021
Academic Production: Yale School of Drama (New Haven, CT), 2021
at the very bottom of a body of water
Williamstown Theatre Festival's L. Arnold Weissberger Award Finalist.
Maria is being haunted. Every night, she dreams about drowning. Every week, she makes catfish soup. But when her ritual meal is disrupted by the disappearance of her fishmonger, she can no longer swim in the routine circle of her solitary life. She embarks on a surreal quest -- all the way down to the darkest place she can imagine -- to confront the ghost that is holding her captive...or rather, the ghost that she's been holding captive.
Developed in The Lark's Playwrights' Week 2016 (New York) and with support from The Playwrights' Center's 2017-18 McKnight Fellowship in Playwriting and Umbrella Project (Seattle, WA).
Maria is being haunted. Every night, she dreams about drowning. Every week, she makes catfish soup. But when her ritual meal is disrupted by the disappearance of her fishmonger, she can no longer swim in the routine circle of her solitary life. She embarks on a surreal quest -- all the way down to the darkest place she can imagine -- to confront the ghost that is holding her captive...or rather, the ghost that she's been holding captive.
Developed in The Lark's Playwrights' Week 2016 (New York) and with support from The Playwrights' Center's 2017-18 McKnight Fellowship in Playwriting and Umbrella Project (Seattle, WA).
q u e r e n c i a:
an imagined autobiography about forbidden fruits
Winner of the Playwrights' Center's 2016-17 Many Voices Fellowship and 2017-18 McKnight Fellowship in Playwriting.
What's a boy to do when his favorite fruit is banana in a world that says he's gotta love mangoes? "querencia" (a Spanish word having to do with the longing to find or return to a place that feels like home) is a magical coming-of-age story about a young boy named Milo’s search for belonging as he grapples with friends, family, and his sexual identity, guided by a mysterious character called La Bruja.
Developed with support of the Playwrights Realm's 2017-18 Scratchpad Series.
What's a boy to do when his favorite fruit is banana in a world that says he's gotta love mangoes? "querencia" (a Spanish word having to do with the longing to find or return to a place that feels like home) is a magical coming-of-age story about a young boy named Milo’s search for belonging as he grapples with friends, family, and his sexual identity, guided by a mysterious character called La Bruja.
Developed with support of the Playwrights Realm's 2017-18 Scratchpad Series.