PLAYS
Cris Leaves Queens
Full length, Cast: 4, Genre: comedy, dark comedy, drama, surrealism
A family-run funeral home in Queens comes under threat from an incoming snow storm, forcing twin sisters, their father and a guest to come face to face with what’s been haunting them, along with several other quirky undead.
Development history:
Workshop and staged reading, Local Theater Company in Boulder, CO as part of their Local Lab 12, 2023
Workshop and staged reading, IAMA Theatre Company, Los Angeles, CA as part of their New Works Festival, 2022
Catholic All Girls School
Full length, Cast: 5, Genre: comedy, dark comedy, drama, surrealism
An overachieving high schooler at Miami’s most prestigious Catholic all girls school has the perfect plan to get into her dream college, until an attractive, young, ex-priest is hired as her new ethics teacher and begins to dismantle all she knows about right and wrong and falling in love.
Development history:
Written as part of IAMA Theatre Company’s Inaugural Under30 Playwrights Lab (now named Emerging Playwrights Lab) in 2019-2020
Workshop reading, IAMA Theatre Company, Los Angeles, CA directed by Kate Sullivan, 2020
ELENA
Full length, Cast: 6, Genre: dark comedy, drama, surrealism
ELENA is a harsh unveiling of the dynamics between the upper and lower classes of Latin Americans in Miami. For the wealthiest in the city, housekeepers are an essential feature of their way of living. But what do employees owe their employers, really? Elena, a struggling Venezuelan immigrant, is grateful to find work in the Rodriguez household. But with three adult siblings dealing with their own messy lives, and a matriarch grieving the death of her husband, her distress is muffled under their drama...until a boundary is crossed and the family is forced to deal with the help differently.
Development history:
Presented as part of Creative Thesis from The Writer’s Foundry MFA at St. Joseph’s University in Brooklyn, 2018
Aguantando
One act, Cast: 3, Genre: dark comedy, drama, surrealism
Surreal scenes around the kitchen table. A family is forced to re-live the same dinner three times as they grieve the complicated loss of a member not yet dead but acutely un-present.
Development history:
Produced in the Experimental Theatre Wing of NYU Tisch School of the Arts’ Drama Department, Spring of 2016
Directed by and starring Adriana Santos