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Playwriting

As a playwright, I write plays for youth exploring themes of gender roles/expectations, sexuality, Latinx/Chicanx identities, and how to navigate adolescence. Please read on for more information on my plays and reach out if you are interested in reading a script!

You can also check me out on New Play Exchange! Click on the NPX icon to go to my profile.

spayce boys

spayce boys is a play for young audiences that follows two queer, Latinx, middle school-age boys who are forced to work together on a school project but just cannot seem to figure each other out. One day they find themselves in a mysterious room in their school that rockets them out into outer spayce. Once there, they are again forced to work together to prove to the robot rocket that they are indeed human boys and should be allowed to return to earth. This is a tender play about finding friends, being raised/socialized as a boy on earth, and how being witness to young folks is essential.

previous development:

Reading: University of Texas New Theatre with The University of Texas at Austin 

March 2024

 

Reading: New Plays for Young Audiences: BIPOC Initiative with NYU Steinhardt

June 2021

Reading: INGENIO New Play Festival with Milagro Theatre, Teatro Vivo, & Cara Mia Theatre Co.

September 2020

riverwild

One of Lupe’s favorite activities is floating down the river with his cousins on a hot summer day - he’s actually quite the expert. But, what happens when the river splits in two and Lupe is left alone on the river to find his way back to his cousins? Using puppetry, live-streaming video and a topographic map, this play for young audiences is a poem about how humans belong. 

previous development:

First Sharing/Workshop: Cohen New Works Festival with The University of Texas at Austin

April 2025

co-devised and directed with Joshua W. Martin

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el bailador

el bailador is a play for all audiences that centers a young Chicanx boy named Pablo who loves to dance but only does so in the privacy of his room. Afraid of what his family might think, Pablo forms a personal relationship with every physical space in the play as a chorus of actors transforms into the various settings of the play. When Pablo, his brother and his parents must move into his grandma’s house along with his uncle and cousin, his anxiety is exacerbated by his family being around every corner in the new house. Pablo has nowhere to explore his self-expression and grief of his recent grandpa’s passing but is finding new musical inspirations through the Tejano music that fills his grandma’s house.  But he must quickly confront his anxieties and trepidation when a family quince hosts the baile at his grandma’s house.

previous development:

Reading: Austin Latinx New Play Festival with Teatro Vivo

April 2023

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