“You got to make your own worlds, you got to write yourself in.”
SYZYGY, OR THE CEASING OF THE SUN
on the cusp of the 22nd century, in a city (or whatever it is that is left), a star-crossed, makeshift family of five is born. a meditation on how love & chaos behave when it feels like the world is falling apart, SYZYGY is both a microscope on a handful of humans & a telescope on the world they struggle to survive in & care for. climate & cosmos; past & present; bodies & burdens; life & legacy—what does it mean for us if, in fact, the world has always been ending? how do we love? how do we fight?
featured in the 2021 Crossing Borders/Cruzando Fronteras Festival at Two River Theater
YAELIS
after her mom disappears into the caribbean skies, a very lost & fragmented yaelis decides to take off into the desert night in pursuit of answers. soon after, she encounters a fellow runaway—& perhaps mischievous spirit guide—who helps her find meaning in a journey with no certain destination. the duo’s cross-country bus ride moves forward in time as their relationship swings them backwards through it, their dreams & memories paving the way to the healing yaelis has been searching for all along… because sometimes running away means finding home, not leaving it behind. a coming-of-age journey that crosses borders & spans centuries, YAELIS is a road trip, a fever dream, & an earth-shaking ancestral resurrection.
selected for development with crashbox theater company’s read. play. write. vii
finalist for the 2020 Page 73 Playwriting Fellowship
desarrollo
as kids growing up in new york city, nelly, alaida, and sol spent hot summer days daring, dancing, and documenting their way across boroughs, rivers, and storefronts. ten years later, time has seemed to warp everything, from their once-indestructible friendship to the landscape of the streets they used to call home. DESARROLLO is an unraveling—a discovery—of what happens to the people and the places we love when put under pressure; like film developing in the dark, their stories are ones of transformation, of capturing the moments that change us.
selected for development with playwrights’ week 2018 at the lark
selected for full production in the 2018 season of corkscrew theater festival
partially developed with the bechdel group's reading series
the anatomy of light
when we carry the pain of our histories and our loved ones in our blood, bruises are not so quick to fade. the anatomy of light is a play about a young boy, a family, an island or two, and what it means to love and to lose. set in the brooklyn of the 21st century, it swims back and forth in time, exploring how there can be healing in the wake of broken bones, colorful bullets, and a mother gone—with fireworks bursting all the while.
selected for 50 playwrights project's best unproduced latinx plays 2018
honorable mention on the 2016 kilroys list
winner of the 2016 marilyn swartz seven '69 playwriting award
finalist for the 2016 rising circle theater collective INKtank
all we are is (or fire & she who comes from it)
part of a senior project in media studies, all we are is (or fire & she who comes from it) is a performance text that tackles theatre as a medium of memory and explores how playwriting and performance can function as tools for feminist, queer, and anti-colonial critique and community-building. a mosaic of moments centering around the lives and creative process of six women of color (each of them designated by only a single letter), this work is an attempt at experiencing and demonstrating the particular way that writing and performance (and writing for performance) frame and foster the feminist and anti-racist work of decolonization.
the human is sad; let’s start a band
in a sunny apartment on Lenape land, the days are getting longer, but the human is getting sadder. the plants, however, are thriving—& they want to share the wealth. as the sun rises overhead, six (or more!) voices come together to reflect on what they're witnessing & generate a little joy.
commissioned by The Sol Project for the 2020 Play at Home initiative
INTERVENTION
ELL, ELI, and ELLIE look different, sound different, maybe even smell different—but really, they’re one & the same. mind, body, spirit... or, one that spins the thread, one that measures it, & one that takes off running with the scissors. you know, that sort of thing. anyway, dawn is breaking & it's two against one (or is it one for all?) as these three tackle what has become a dire issue in their relationship.
the orange line©
a traverse stage. an afrolatinx ensemble of three (+1). a transparent wall. set in new york city, home of the neo-islanders, THE ORANGE LINE© adapts the personal notebooks and legendary SAMO© graffiti of artist jean-michel basquiat as a means of exploring identity, art, and violence across time and space. through use of the phrases and poetics of basquiat's personal/street art—which have come to be perhaps just as widely known as his larger paintings—this one-act play unfolds as a conversation with the iconic black artist and the city in which he lived and died.
an empty glass
home [hōm, hohm], noun: a sea of dots on a map; a wavering reflection at the bottom of an empty glass. set in the round, this is a play (a moment, a happening, a snapshot) about what the word home can mean—and how, when their paths cross on an autumn evening in a london pub, six strangers can discover and define it together.
semi-finalist at manhattan repertory theatre's 2015 fall one-act play competition
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