Location : San Diego Repertory Theatre [The Lyceum Theatres]
2021 Latinx New Play Festival
September 3-5, 2021
Live In-Person AND Streamed Live Online!
San Diego Repertory Theatre and Amigos del REP are proud to announce the lineup for the Fifth Annual San Diego REP Latinx New Play Festival presented in-person and streamed live online, September 3-5, 2021. Below is the schedule of the 2021 Latinx New Play Festival, including four staged readings and the festival showcase production of Conjunto Blues.
There are three ways to enjoy this year's festival:
1. Watch it live at the Conrad Prebys Aztec Student Union Theatre* with a community of like-minded theatregoers.
2. Watch it live online.
3. Watch a recording of the live event until 6pm PT on Monday, September 6.
*The Conrad Prebys Aztec Student Union Theatre is a state-of-the-art screening theatre with plush tiered seating and surround sound. The Student Union Theatre is made available to the festival through San Diego State University and is part of our deepening partnership with SDSU.
All times listed are PT.
Friday, September 3rd
4:00pm Directing Panel*
5:00pm Black Mexican by Rachel Lynett
7:00pm Opening Reception*
Saturday, September 4th
11:00am Designer Showcase*
12:00pm (trans)formada by lily gonzales
2:00pm Dramaturgy Panel*
3:00pm Get Your Pink Hands Off Me Sucka and Give Me Back by Daniella De Jesús
6:00pm Conjunto Blues spotlight performance, by Nicolas R. Valdez
7:30pm Reception
Sunday, September 5th
11:00am Historical Context Panel*
12:00pm Local Project Panel*
1:00pm A Skeptic and a Bruja by Rosa Fernandez
3:00pm Closing Playwrights Panel*
*Panel descriptions provided below play summaries
Festival passes are now available. We highly value the work of our Latinx New Play Festival artists. So that we can continue to support the festival and its artists, we suggest that $50 is a fair value price for this year’s festival pass. However, it is equally important to us that anyone who wants to access the festival and the plays presented is able to do so. Feel free to select a price option, between $0 and $100, that best suits you and your current circumstances. Information on how to view the readings, spotlight performance and other events will be included in your purchase confirmation email.
Theatre industry professionals are invited to join the festival with complimentary in-person or virtual passes. Request a complimentary virtual or in-person festival pass here.
Black Mexican
Who gets to be a part of Latinidad? While Valery fights to prove Ximena isn't Cuban, Alia has given up fighting that she is Latine. As the women in this play discover the truth about themselves and each other, they also have to face the internal bias that allowed a white woman to be Cuban but didn't allow a Belizean to call herself Latine.
Rachel Lynett (Playwright) is a queer Afro-Latinx playwright who writes dark comedies about complex, complicated women of color. Her recent playwriting credits include commissions with Barrington Stage Theatre Company (HOLY GROUND), Florida Studio Theatre (CARRY ME and AS YOU ARE), and Theatre Lab (LAST NIGHT). Other credits include LAST NIGHT presented as a reading with Theatre Lab (2020); HERE BE DRAGONS presented as a reading with Capital Rep (2019); YOU WERE MINE presented as a reading at the Kennedy Center Page to Stage Festival presented by Theatre Prometheus (2019); HE DID IT presented as a reading with Equity Library Theatre, Chicago (2018) and presented as a workshop production with University of Central Florida's Pegasus PlayLab; REFUGE as part of Z Space's Problematic Play Festival (2018); GOOD BAD PEOPLE as part of Talk Back Theatre's Reading Series (2018), part of American Stage Theatre Company's 21st Century New Voices New Play Festival (2018), part of Jackalope Theatre's CIRCLE UP series (2017) and as a reading as part of Unicorn Theatre Plays In Progress (2018); WELL-INTENTIONED WHITE PEOPLE as the Michigan premiere with Matrix Theatre (2018), the world premiere with Barrington Stage Theatre Company (2018), the Downstage Left Residency with StageLeft (2017), part of Orlando Shakespeare New Play Festival (2017), and receiving honorable mention for the 2017 Kilroys for her play (2017). Her play, ABORTION ROAD TRIP received a workshop production produced by Theatre Prometheus as part of Capital Fringe where it won Best Comedy (2017) and then was later presented by Theatre Prometheus, as a part of the 2017 Kennedy Center Page to Stage Festival. Rachel Lynett is also the 2018 Recipient of the Arkansas Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowship and one of the 2020 recipients for the Artist 360 grant.
(trans)formada
Sam is gay, a little trans, and a child of Mexican immigrants living in the Texas Hill Country. They're trying to figure out how to express their gender -- to themselves and to the world. Just as Sam is building the courage to present their gender to their mother, they go to a high school party. Everyone is way too into each other and drinking way too much. Amidst the debauchery, a brave and strange set of rituals ensues.
lily gonzales (Playwright) (they/them) is a playwright from Texas who graduated from UT Austin with a Bachelor's in Theater & Dance / English. Their work has been developed or read at The John F. Kennedy Center, Teatro Vivo, Repertorio Español, Stages, San Diego Rep, AlterTheater Ensemble, and The Workshop Theater.
Get Your Pink Hands Off Me Sucka and Give Me Back
While studying abroad in Spain, Solandra, a young Dominican-American woman, finds herself alone in the throne room of Queen Isabel and King Ferdinand, whose portraits come alive, transporting her to 1492. Meanwhile, on the island of what we now refer to as “hispaniola,” Anacaona awakens, terrorized by a violent nightmare, which she soon learns is a prophetic dream. As Anacaona struggles to save her community from invasion, Solandra contends with her racial identity, attraction to older white men and their attraction to her.
Daniella De Jesús (Playwright) (she/her/hers) is an actor/writer from Bushwick, Brooklyn. As an actor, she is best known for her role as Zirconia on Netflix’s “Orange is the New Black.” A member of the Public Theater’s 2018-19 Emerging Writers Group, her plays include “Pa’ Ti Tengo De Todo” (The Public Theater’s Spotlight Series), "Get Your Pink Hands Off Me Sucka and Give Me Back (FKA Columbus Play)", "The Thief Cometh" (United SoloFestival), and "Mambo Sauce,” which was a semi-finalist for Clubbed Thumb’s 2018 commission. She’s also the creator of the new web series “Talk To Me” on IGTV. De Jesús is a graduate of NYU Tisch School of the Arts with a BFA in Drama.
Conjunto Blues
Conjunto Blues, written and performed by Nicolás R. Valdez, is a play that explores the social and historical conditions that led to the development of Conjunto music as an expression of cultural resistance and liberation. This story centers on playwright, actor, and musician Nicolás Valdez’s personal experience growing up in the Conjunto music scene and is loosely based on the relationship with his grandfather, himself a Conjunto music aficionado. Audiences are taken through a shifting landscape of memory and reflection that is highlighted throughout with traditional music performed live by Valdez and accompanied by musicians on Bajo Sexto (12 string Mexican guitar), Tololoche (upright bass), and drums. Filled with a cast of colorfully poignant characters, Conjunto Blues is a deeply personal performance for audiences of all ages and backgrounds that is sure to entertain and educate.
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Nicolás R Valdez (Playwright & Performer) is a San Antonio, Texas based interdiscplinary performance artist with over 20 years experience in cultural arts activism. His introduction to the stage came early when, at the age of 9, Nicolas was trained in traditional Conjunto music by master accordionist Valerio Longoria Sr. By the age of 15 he was an active member of the Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center’s youth theater company Grupo Animo, writing and performing in original staged works. His training continued at the University of Wisconsin Madison and later through the practical experience of working with other artists around the country. Over the years, Nicolas has developed his own unique style incorporating music, poetry and theater into culturally relevant performances that speak to the experiences of the communities along the US-Mexico border.
A Skeptic and a Bruja
Priscilla buys a home in the middle of nowhere after losing her life partner with the hope of turning it into a lucrative Bnb. When she starts having paranormal experiences, she calls on paranormal investigators Sam and Jess from "A Skeptic and a Bruja" to help her. The women get more than any of them expected and more than they will ever be able to forget.
Rosa Fernandez (Playwright) lives in Buffalo, NY full time with her husband and two children. She is an associate member of the Dramatist Guild and a two time participant of the Emmanuel Fried New Play Workshop facilitated by Road Less Traveled Productions in Buffalo, NY. She attended Brooklyn College for a BFA in Theater. Her play, Curse of the Puerto Ricans was a semi-finalist for the Eugene O’Neill National Playwrights Conference and runner up in the MetLife Nuestras Voces Playreading Series for Repertorio Español. It has also made the 2020 Kilroys list and will hopefully receive it's World Premiere in 2021 at Bishop Arts Theatre Center in Dallas, TX.
The San Diego REP Latinx New Play Festival, hosted by the Amigos del REP, is a celebration of engaging, dynamic and enlightening new plays by Latinx playwrights from across the United States. Submissions are accepted from Latinx playwrights representing an array of genres, styles and experiences highlighted by both emerging and veteran playwrights.
Questions? Please email amigos@sdrep.org or call 619.544.1000.
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San Diego Rep Latinx New Play Festival reading of "Guadalupe in the Guestroom."
San Diego REP's Latinx New Play Festival is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts.
San Diego REP's Latinx New Play Festival is supported in part by the California Arts Council, a state agency. Learn more at www.arts.ca.gov
San Diego REP's Latinx New Play Festival is supported in part by the Peggy and Robert Matthews Foundation.
2020 Latinx New Play Festival
September 4-6, 2020
Streamed Live Online!
San Diego Repertory Theatre and Amigos del REP are proud to announce the lineup for the Fourth Annual San Diego REP Latinx New Play Festival streamed live online, September 4-6, 2020. Below is the schedule of the 2020 Latinx New Play Festival including the four staged readings and the festival showcase production of Spanking Machine.
Festival passes will be available soon. We highly value the work of our Latinx New Play Festival artists. So that we can continue to support the festival and its artists, we suggest that $50 is a fair value price for this year’s festival pass. However, it is equally important to us that anyone who wants to access the festival and the plays presented is able to do so. Feel free to select a price option, between $0 and $100, that best suits you and your current circumstances. Information on how to view the readings, spotlight performance and other events will be included in your purchase confirmation email.
Curious about how this year's festival will be presented? Click here to watch a short video!
All times listed are PDT.
Friday, September 4th
4:00pm Directing Panel*
5:00pm Machine Learning by Francisco Mendoza
7:00pm Opening Reception*
Saturday, September 5th
11:00am Designer Showcase*
12:00pm Sapience by Diana Burbano
2:00pm Dramaturgy Panel*
3:00pm Extreme Home Makeover by Makasha Copeland
6:00pm Spanking Machine written and performed by Marga Gomez
Sunday, September 6th
11:00am Frontera Project Panel*
12:00pm Historical Context Panel*
1:00pm The Cucuy Will Find You by Jaymes Sanchez
3:00pm Closing Playwrights Panel*
*Panel descriptions provided below play summaries
Machine Learning
When his estranged, alcoholic father is diagnosed with liver cancer, computer scientist Jorge dreams up a nursing app to manage the disease in his stead. As the machine's capabilities grow, however, the possibility of leaving it in charge of the treatment becomes more real, forcing Jorge to reckon with his responsibilities as a son—and as a creator.
Francisco Mendoza (Playwright) is an Argentinian writer currently living in Brooklyn, NY after spending several years in Brazil. His work has been developed or presented at The Lark, The New Group, the MacDowell Colony, and Northern Stage, among others. His scripts include stage plays Machine Learning (Neukom Institute Literary Arts Award for Playwriting), Tooth for Tooth (Finalist, Sundance Theater Lab; Finalist, Princess Grace Playwriting Fellowship), and Patriarch; TV pilot Land Most Loved (Finalist, Sundance Lab); and podcast Hairy Legs Hannah's Feminist Quarter-Hour, which he co-wrote and directed after a successful Kickstarter campaign. MFA - Tisch School of the Arts. notrealmendoza.com
Sapience
Elsa is a doctor of Primatology who has up-until-now, successfully concealed her diagnosis of Autism. She is currently working at a zoo with an orangutan named Wookie, who she believes is capable of speaking a human language. Elsa’s 12 year old nephew, A.J., is also Autistic, but is unable to communicate verbally. A.J. and Wookie soon discover that they can communicate in mysterious ways, which completely disrupts Elsa’s research and theories. A.J. teaches Wookie that she is mortal and will die someday. This is a brand new concept to the animal, and Wookie falls into despair to the point of near death. Wookie’s death would be catastrophic to Elsa. She is forced to confront the value of A.J.’s mode of communication and her reluctance to embrace her own Autism.
Diana Burbano (Playwright), a Colombian immigrant, is an Equity actor, a playwright and a teaching artist at South Coast Repertory and Breath of Fire Latina Theatre Ensemble. Works: Ghosts of Bogota, commission by AlterTheater, winner NuVoices Festival Actors Theatre of Charlotte, Policarpa, Semi-finalist Eugene O’Neill Playwrights Festival 2018, Finalist Bay Area Playwrights Festival 2018, Oregon Shakespeare Festival Brown Swan lab 2017, Drama League Rough Draft series May 2017, Honorable Mention, Jane Chambers Award 2017, Parsnip Ship 2017. Fabulous Monsters, Latinx New Play Festival, San Diego REP 2017, Festival 51 2016 winner Picture me Rollin’, 35th William Inge Festival, Inkfest/2cents, Silueta, (about Ana Mendieta), with Tom and Chris Shelton, Caliban’s Island (TYA) 2017 Headwaters New Play Festival at Creede Repertory. (Published by YouthPLAYS). Linda was written for the 365 Women a Year project and has been featured in more than 20 festivals over the last year, including Center Theatre Group’s community library series. She was a writer for Center Theatre Group’s Chisme y Queso series, Rogue Artists Plummer Park project and Kaiser Permanente’s Educational touring show. She has a commission with Alter Theatre in San Rafael and is part of Center Theatre Group’s Writers Workshop for 2018-2019.
Extreme Home Makeover
Every year, thousands of families apply for a reality TV show that promises a rags-to-riches transformation for America's most deserving citizens. With such steep competition, the Vega family must fight to make their video application stand out. Makasha Copeland's gritty comedy begs the question - in a world where so many receive so little, how much do miracles cost?
Makasha Copeland (Playwright) is a playwright and comedian whose work focuses on the televisual, Tejano history, and positionality of the audience. Original works include Extreme Home Makeover, an earnest satire that received the 2019 Agnes Nixon award. Copeland’s farce Fabuloso! received a workshopped reading with Vertigo Productions. Additionally, Copeland is a seasoned improviser, performing at Northwestern University with The Titanic Players, Out Da Box, and Mee-Ow, as well as performances at iO and Second City with femme sketch group Resting Witch Face. They are a recent graduate from Northwestern University where they studied Playwriting, Latinx Studies, and majored in Theatre.
Spanking Machine
In In Spanking Machine GLAAD Award-winning writer/performer Marga Gomez shifts across gender, latitudes and generations in a darkly comic memoir about the first boy she ever sloppy-kissed and how it made them gay forever. “His real name was Agamemnon Perez Jr. but he shortened it to “Scotty” because he thought Agamemnon sounded too Cuban.” By turns funny and disturbing, Gomez recounts growing up brown and queer in Washington Heights, sadistic nuns on poppers, tender vampires, childhood misdemeanors, parental post-nasal drip, fear, sexual assault and suppressed memory.
Development on Spanking Machine began with Gomez and original director and dramaturg Adrian Alea in March 2019 when it was chosen for residency at Syracuse Stage’s “Cold Read Festival” and continued through 2019 and 2020 with workshops at Elgin Illinois Fringe Festival, and a July 2020 commisioned livestreaming engagement at Dixon Place, NYC. It was also slated for a three week run at Brava Theater, San Francisco which was postponed on opening night due to the pandemic.
"No Zoom window could possibly contain the outsize personality of Marga Gomez" -
New York Times
Marga Gomez (Playwright & Performer) is the writer/performer of thirteen solo plays which have been presented nationally, Off-Broadway and internationally. She “returns” to Dixon Place for her second commissioned work following her 2015 critically acclaimed premiere of “POUND” (directed by David Schweizer.) She is the winner of a GLAAD Media Award and Theatre LA’s Ovation Award. Her acting credits include theatre roles: Campo Santos San Francisco production of “Translating Selena” (January 2020) Off-Broadway Ars Nova production of “Dr. Rides American Beach House” (November 2019) television: “Sense8” (Netflix) and film: “Sphere” (Warner Brothers.) Marga teaches solo performance online and in San Francisco at The Kearny Street Workshop, A.C.T and Brava. NBC named her one of eleven “Out Latinos you should know.” Selections from Gomez’s work have been published in several anthologies including Extreme Exposure (TCG Books), HOWL (Crown Press), Out Loud & Laughing (Anchor Books), Contemporary Plays by American Women of Color (Routledge.) For more information visit margagomez.com
The Cucuy Will Find You
Embedded within Mexican-American folklore, the Cucuy is a dark entity known for eating bad, disobedient people. But what does it mean to be a good person? For a successful 30-something year old, like Rey, the Cucuy could disrupt Rey's life and the very fabric of reality, Rey must prove that they are a good person. But it isn’t easy; Rey avoids travelling to visit their grandmother, Leti, even though Rey’s father insists her health is quickly declining. As Rey tries to affirm the life Rey has built away from home, The Cucuy confronts Rey with the past, present, and future.
Jaymes Sanchez (Playwright) is a Texan playwright and theatre artist. Jaymes's play The Cucuy Will Find You was featured in the Lark's Playwrights' Week 2019 and will be featured in Teatro Vivo’s 2020 Latinx New Play Festival. Soda From Water Cups was a finalist for the Latinx Theatre Commons' 2018 Carnaval of New Latinx work. Who Owns What was featured in Artists’ Theater of Boston’s production of This Place/Displaced. Jaymes was a member of the Company One Playlab in 2018 and 2019. Jaymes is pursuing an MFA in Playwriting at the Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas at Austin.
The San Diego REP Latinx New Play Festival, hosted by the Amigos del REP, is a celebration of engaging, dynamic and enlightening new plays by Latinx playwrights from across the United States. Submissions are accepted from Latinx playwrights representing an array of genres, styles and experiences highlighted by both emerging and veteran playwrights.
Questions? Please email amigos@sdrep.org or call 619.544.1000.
Panel Descriptions:
All artists involved in engagement events are listed below.
Opening Reception:
Stay for informal networking, games, and music. Meet the festival artists and connect with other theatre professionals.
Designer Showcase:
Meet an array of BIPOC designers, see and sample their design work. Hosted by Christopher Scott Murillo.
Historical Context Panel:
Learn about the history of Latinx Theatre from celebrated theatre scholars Dr. Jade Power-Sotomayor, Dr. Trevor Boffone, Dr. Brian Herrera, Dr. Patricia Herrera and Dr. Olga Sanchez Saltveit.
Frontera Project Panel:
"The Frontera Project" by Bárbara Perrín Rivemar, directed by Ramón Verdugo and Jessica Bauman
People cross the US/Mexico border in both directions for so many reasons - school, family, food, work, love and hope. Yet most of what we are told by the media and politicians doesn't begin to capture the complex realities of peoples' lives at La Frontera. In "The Frontera Project," a company of artists from Tijuana, San Diego and New York create a theatrical and imaginative piece based on these often-invisible Border stories.
Las personas cruzan la frontera México/Estados Unidos en ambas direcciones por muchas razones: escuela, familia, comida, trabajo, amor y esperanza. Sin embargo esto no se revela en los discursos políticos y mediáticos, dejando fuera múltiples realidades de las personas que viven en La Frontera. En "The Frontera Project" un grupo de artistas de Tijuana, San Diego y New York se reúnen para crear una pieza teatral y imaginativa basada en algunas de estas historias poco contadas.
Directing panel:
Learn from a team of professional theatre directors as they consider the new and shifting role of technology in live performance. Moderated by Juliana Kliest Mendez and featuring Dr. Daphnie Sicre and Robert Castro.
Dramaturgy panel:
Join a conversation led by Dr. Tiffany Lopez and Dr Chantal Rodriguez, two leading scholars and Latinx dramaturgs. They will speak with the 2020 festival dramaturgs and field questions about the state of Latinx theatre.
Closing Playwrights Panel:
San Diego REP Literary Manager Danielle Ward will lead a conversation with the 2020 festival playwrights. The playwrights will speak about their writing processes, how they approach working in a virtual rehearsal room and then the conversation will open to audience questions.
San Diego Rep Latinx New Play Festival reading of "Guadalupe in the Guestroom."
San Diego REP's Latinx New Play Festival is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts.
San Diego REP's Latinx New Play Festival is supported in part by the California Arts Council, a state agency. Learn more at www.arts.ca.gov
San Diego REP's Latinx New Play Festival is supported in part by the Peggy and Robert Matthews Foundation.
Panel Guests & Artists:
San Diego Rep Latinx New Play Festival 2019
English-language plays, Latinx stories
The festival had four readings, a spotlight performance and also a number of ticketed, surround events.
- To Saints and Stars by Jordan Ramirez Puckett
- DREAM HOU$E by Eliana Pipes
- Aztec Pirates & the Insignificance of Life on Mars by David Davila
- Laughs in Spanish by Alexis Scheer
- 57 Chevy by Cris Franco, starring Ric Salinas of Culture Clash
San Diego Rep Latinx New Play Festival History: 2018
"Bad Hombres/Good Wives" by Herbert Siguenza
Director: Daniel Jáquez
Stage Manager: Danielle Dudley
Sound Designz: Kevin Anthenill
Featuring: John Padilla, Gabriela Nelson, Salomon Maya, Yvette Angulo, Jose Balistrieri, Roxanne Carasco, Daniel Ramos, Jose Martinez, Mariel Shaw
"The Book of Leonidas" by Augusto Amador
Director: Peter Cirino
Stage Manager: Victoria Zepeda
Assistant Stage Manager: Mario Veha
Featuring: Carter Piggie, Tony Perez, Andrea Agosto, Sofia Sassone, Christian Contreras, Willie Goree, and Santi Samano
"Bees and Honey" by Guadalís Del Carmen
Director: Jose Galvan
Stage Manager: Diana Nicasso
Assistant Stage Manager: Mila Daniels
Featuring: Nadia Guevara, Sidney Hill, and Vanessa Duron
"Azul" by Christina Quintana
Director: Nadia Guevara
Stage Manager: Jessica Cortez
Assistant Stage Manager: Vanessa Duron
Featuring: Ariella Kvashny, Andrea Agusto, Gabriela Nelson
San Diego Rep Latinx New Play Festival History: 2017
"El Cipitio: A Salvadorian Odyssey" by Ric Salinas and Herbert Siguenza with Randy Ertll
Director: Herbert Siguenza
Stage Manager: Mario Vega
Featuring: Richard Trujillo, Jennifer Paredes, Ric Salinas, Herbert Siguenza, and Sandra Ruiz
"Fabulous Monsters" by Diana Burbano
Director: Sara Guerrero
Stage Manager: Elizabeth Uribe
Music: Moises Vasquez
Featuring: Janet Franco, Rachel Oliveros Catalano, Julianna Ojeda, Elsa Martinez, Katie Ventura, Richard Soto, and Jose Galvan
"(w)holeness" by Lily Padilla
Director: Krystal Mercado
Stage Manager: Samantha Santos
Featuring: Reanne Acasio, Max Singer, Veronica Burgess, Rhianna Basore, Brandon O’Sullivan, and Dairrick Hodges
"Guadalupe in the Guest Room" by Tony Meneses
Director: Peter James Cirino
Stage Manager: Victoria Yvette Zepeda
Featuring: Catalina Maynard, Ryan Stubo, Destiny Girley, Antonio Perez, and Marda Rose
Submissions are now open for the 2022 San Diego REP Latinx New Play Festival!
San Diego Repertory Theatre and Amigos del REP are proud to announce open submissions to the 2022 Latinx New Play Festival, a weekend of new play readings by Latinx playwrights. The festival will showcase four new Latinx plays by Latinx playwrights. The 2022 Latinx New Play Festival seeks to expand the presence of Latinx stories and artists on the American stage that spotlight the broad range of today’s Latinx experience. The festival will invite artistic directors, literary managers, and producers to attend a hybrid in-person and online weekend of readings showcasing the work of Latinx actors, directors, and designers. Past selections include work by Diana Burbano, Herbert Siguenza, Francisco Mendoza, C. Quintana, and lily gonzales.
Festival Details
Four scripts will be selected to be rehearsed and workshopped online between May and August 2022, resulting in a recorded reading. Recordings will then be aired synchronously online and in-person Sept 2-4, 2022. Each of the 4 selected readings will be rehearsed and recorded over one month between May and August 2022; combined rehearsal and performance will not exceed 29 hours. Each selected script will be assigned a Latinx director and actors (unless otherwise indicated by the script).
Eligibility
Festival submissions are open to self-identifying Latinx/e playwrights living in the United States. Scripts may be in English or English with some Spanish or another Language (scripts with a language other than English must be accompanied by an English translation).
Plays must be unpublished, professionally unproduced, and not currently under option at the time of submission. University productions or other non-professional workshops/productions will not disqualify a script.
At this time, only full length (at least 80 minutes), non-musicals, with cast size under eight will be considered. Plays with music will be considered as resources allow (cast-size less eight and under, piano only). Solo pieces will also be considered. Submissions are limited to one script per playwright.
Selection Criteria
A selection committee of San Diego Rep Artistic staff and Artistic Director, and Amigos del Rep readers will make recommendations and final selections. Selection will be based upon:
- Artistic merit including quality, impact, purpose, and aesthetics of the play
- Alignment with San Diego Repertory Theatre's mission of producing plays by and about the Latinx experience. Additionally, San Diego Repertory Theatre’s mission is to produce intimate, exotic, provocative theatre through vivid and theatrical works that nourish progressive political and social values.
- Feasibility of a full production in San Diego Repertory Theatre’s mainstage season
Submission Procedure
All applicants must complete the following:
- Complete this google form: https://forms.gle/gHdR5Y7g2KP6Jtuv9 with
- Playwright name, email address, and phone number
- A one paragraph synopsis of the script
- Number of actors required
- Any prior development work for this play
- Playwright biography (100 word limit)
- Character breakdown
- Playscript
All entries must be submitted by: Saturday January 1, 2022 by 12:59 PST.
Hard copies will not be accepted. PDF documents are strongly recommended to avoid formatting discrepancies.
Selected playwrights will be notified via email by April 1, 2022.
Have questions?
About San Diego Repertory Theatre
San Diego Repertory Theatre produces intimate, exotic, provocative theatre. Founded in 1976, San Diego Repertory Theatre is downtown San Diego’s resident theatre, promoting a more inclusive community through work that nourishes progressive political and social values and celebrates the multiple voices of our region. The company produces and hosts over 550 events and performances year-round on its three stages at the Lyceum Theatre. Since moving to the Lyceum, The REP has produced 52 main stage productions by Latino playwrights, and more than 40 world premieres. San Diego Repertory Theatre feeds the curious soul. To learn more about San Diego Repertory Theatre, visit www.sdrep.org.
About the Amigos del Rep
Amigos del REP is a theatre advocacy council of community members and artists who promote Hispanic/Latino/Chicano theatre at San Diego Repertory Theatre.
