things i’ve written
MOMENTOS
Produced in 2019 at:
Equinox New Play Festival with direction by James Bruenger Arreguin
Painted Bride Art Center Solstice Series
In MOMENTOS, Leona is devastated with her parents, the King and Queen, who have done nothing to assist in their country’s revolution against colonisers. After running away from home, she finds Alejan who has the magic ability to tell stories so powerfully they cause hallucinations. They ban together with the head of the revolution to attempt to end the battle.
60 mins run time, 5 characters + ensemble, roles for queer and BIPOC actors
visiones del cuerpo
Produced in 2022 at:
University of The Arts Fall season with direction by James Bruenger Arreguin
VISIONES DEL CUERPO is an immersive play where an ensemble guides the audience into the body and mind of Latinx individual. Poetic monologues reveal secrets and tenderness throughout the hands all the way to the feet. The ensemble attends to the songs and sorrows of the mind, soul and body as familiar and long lost things resurface and rejoice, turning blood into oil paints and brain matter into dance floor: this piece is a meditation on all that has ever been stored in one’s body. A reminder of where we come from and a regeneration of cells and memories.
60 mins run time, ensemble, roles for queer/trans & BIPOC actors
Gente Del Sol
Chosen as a finalist in 2022 for:
PlayPenn New Play Conference with direction by Santiago Iacinti
Featured on The Kilroys List in 2023, named a semifinalist in the STX Latinx new play festival, accepted into The Tank NYC’s MexFest 2024
In Gente Del Sol, Valeria and Leonardo are at a crossroads. Leonardo, manic, seeks professional help. Unsatisfied with western medicine, Leonardo seeks a second opinion from someone that can speak to Mexican culture and Indigenous practices. Valeria does not feel capable of leaving Leonardo in his time of need but finds herself falling for Fern. This play uses magical realism to explore the intricacies of personal identity, sexuality, and interracial relationships.
60 mins run time, 5 characters, roles for queer & BIPOC actors
MANFLOR
Produced in 2023 at:
Philadelphia Fringe Festival as a part of Cannonball Fest
Won a BIPOC New Work Grant with Cannonball Fest, Received grant funding from Young Arts Foundation, written up in the Philly Inquirer under ‘5 Shows in 2023 Not to Miss’
MANFLOR Is a one act play that follows Zeta, an addict, as they have a wild peyote trip through Philadelphia. They encounter characters like the Genderweird and Billie Joe Armstrong of Greenday, and the spirit of addiction trying everything possible to get out of their trip and back to reality.
60 mins run time, 4 characters, roles for queer/trans & BIPOC actors
black lung deja vu
Produced in 2022 at:
Interact Theatre Co by 24 Hour Plays with direction by Carly Bodnar
Black Lung Deja Vu packs an existential punch. Storm and Pluto find a bell that, when wrung, will change reality as they know it. Finding a sort of code, the two explore the multiverse with different bell rings. The narrator, an omnipresent being, guides us through Storm and Pluto’s despair as they go deeper and deeper into a world of existential options. From poetry on physics to coal miners deaths to photosynthesis, discover what end Storm and Pluto will succumb to in this quick paced play.
10 mins run time, 3 characters, roles for queer/trans & BIPOC actors
other plays!
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other plays! -
Here are other full length plays I’ve written that haven’t gotten a production yet!
sangre
Recently sober Helena has a strange encounter with a butch outside the bar on her best friends birthday. After finding out the butch is actually the Aztec god Huitzilopochtli, Helena aims to discover what power she can hold in the afterlife as a god herself.
60 mins run time, 5 characters, roles for queer & BIPOC actors
tormenta del alma
Dariel is back home from war and staying with his strange sister who practices Santeria. Having trouble adjusting, he begins to see the ghost of his deceased husband. Dariel finds himself in a psychiatric hospital and the people he meets there change everything he thought he knew about himself.
60 mins run time, 5 characters + ensemble, roles for queer/trans & BIPOC actors
the we prophecy
Following a spiritual experience in an art museum with a hallucinated baby, Ana asks her boyfriend to impregnate her so she can fulfill The We Prophecy. Completely engrossed in fulfilling the prophecy- Ana risks everything so that We can be born, and can help her change the future for all life on Earth.
60 mins run time, 5 characters, roles for trans & BIPOC actors