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Well, all the plays that I was trying to write were plays that would grab an audience by the throat and not release them, rather than presenting an emotion which you could observe and walk away from.
Arthur Miller



Productions/Festivals:

TGIF Can't Get Here Soon Enough
2021 Downtown Urban Arts Theatre festival
2020 The Actor's Studio Inc. IPOC On The Fly Festival, Dir. Norma Medina

Lester Collins Takes Five
2020 Playbill/VTF (Virtual Theatre Festival, Dir. Bianca Puorto
2020 Downtown Urban Arts Theatre Festival

Cost of Exposure
2016 Downtown Urban Theatre Festival at HERE, NY, Dir. Courtney Wetzel

Between a Hot Dog and a Hard Place
2015  Downtown Urban Theatre Festival at HERE, NY, Dir. Shira-Lee Shalit

Undertow (one act version)
2012 Downtown Urban Theatre Festival at HERE, NY, Dir. Walter J. Hoffman


By The Dawns Early Light: Midnight Mass & Los Embrujados (The Haunted Ones)
2012 Working Artist Lab at Missing Piece Theatre, LA, directed by Hector Rodriquez
2011 Apple Core Theatre Company at the Studio Theatre/Theatre Row, NY, Dir. Walter J. Hoffman


Afterloss  (one act)
2010 Downtown Urban Theatre Festival at Theatre for a New City, NY, Dir. David Jackson

Solo Man Watusi   (one act)
2009 Downtown Urban Theatre Festival at HERE, NY, Dir. David Jackson
2009 SUNY Purchase College, NY, Dir. Richard Crawford

The D & R Debates            
2009 The First 2ndAnnual U.S-ification of American Conference/Center Stage, NY, Dir. Mel Nieves     
 
Night Train                                      
2009 Strings Attached Theatre Company at Roy Arias Theatre, NY, Dir. Shawn Renfro


W.A.C. Iraq: A Work-In-Progress (Full-lengthVersion)                    
2008 Breath of Fire Latina Theatre Ensemble, Santa Ana, CA, Dir. Jose Casas    
 

W.A.C. Iraq (One Act Version) 
2014 Rochester Latino Theatre Company at Rochester Fringe Festival, NY, Dir. Jose Casado
2008 Downtown Urban Theatre Festival at Cherry Lane Theatre, NY, Dir. Taibi Magar


Karen & Tomas: I Touch Myself    
2006 Downtown Urban Theatre Festival at Cherry Lane Theatre, NY, Dir. Padraic Lillis 
 

Tours of Duty                                
2006 South Camden Theatre Company’s Art of War festival, NJ
2005 Downtown Urban Theatre Festival at Cherry Lane Theatre, NY, Dir. Padraic Lillis 
 

Night Screams 
2013 BrooklynOne Productions Vincent Mazzo One Act festival, NYC,  Dir. by Shira Segal                       
2005 LAByrinth Theatre Company Playwright’s LAB at Bennington College, VT, Dir. by Marieke Gourby 


Play Development/Staged Readings:

Story Avenue

2020 LITCouncil Spark Reading Series

​Frederick Douglass & The Fallen Angels
2016 Actors Studio, NYC, Dir. Shira-Le Shalit
2017 LAByrinth Theater Company Barn Series Festival at Cherry Lane Theater, Dir. Shira-Le Shalit

Cost of Exposure (Full Length version)
​2016 LAByrinth Theatre Company Summer Intensive at Bank Street Theatre, NYC, Dir, by Courtney Wetzel

​The Spirit, The Body & The Blood
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2016 LAByrinth Theatre Company Barn Series Festival at Bank Street Theatre. NYC, Dir. Jenna Worsham
2015 Actors Studio, NYC, Dir. Frank Solorzano
​2015 LAByrinth Summer Intensive at Bank Street Theatre, NYC, Dir. Jenna Worsham


Undertow (Full Length version)
2014 Actor's Studio, NYC, Dir. Eva Minemar

There is a Red Rose Up in Spanish Harlem
2014 LAByrinth Theatre Company Summer Intensive at Bank Street Theatre, NY, Dir. Francisco Solorzano
2014 Actor's Studio, NY, Dir. Francisco Solorzano

Full Moon Inside a Red Sky
2015 Barefoot Theatre Company Barenaked Reading series, NYC, directed by Michael LoPorto
2013 LAByrinth Theatre Company Summer Intensive at Connecticut College, NY , directed  by Scott Hudson
2013 BrooklynOne productions, NY, directed by Michael lo Porto


Los Embrujados
2015 Play with Dinner Reading series at Coogan's, NYC, Dir. Maggie Low
2012 Working Artist Lab at Archway Theatre, LA, directed by Hector Rodriquez

W.A.C. Iraq (One Act Version)
2015 Play with Dinner Reading Series at Coogan's, NY, Dir. Maggie Low


Ashes to Ashes
2011 NY Madness at IATI Theater, NY, co-directed by Walter J. Hoffman


Midnight Mass 
2011 Breath of Fire Latina Theatre Ensemble’s Café Con Drama Reading Series, CA,
          Dir. Sara Guerrero
2008 Breath of Fire Latina Theatre Ensembles 1st Annual New Works Festival, Santa Ana, CA,
           Dir. Ernest Lee
2006 LAByrinth Theatre Company at Bennington College, VT, Dir. Webb Wilcoxen
2006 Repertorio Espanol, NY, Dir. Padraic Lillis


In Da Boogie Down
2015 San Diego Repertory Amigo's Del Rep, San Diego, CA, Dir. Vanessa Mendoza
2014 Barefoot Theatre company's BareNaked Reading Series, NYC, directed by Paula Pizzi-Black
2013 Urban Theatre Company's R.A.W. (Real Aggressive Writing) Reading series in Chicago, 
          directed by Marilyn Camacho
2013 LAByrinth Theatre Company workshop-reading at Bank Street Theatre, NY 
          directed/co-developed by Paula Pizzi-Black
2012 Repertorio Espanol, NY, directed by Paula Pizzi-Black
2012 LAByrinth Theatre Company  Summer Intensive at Connecticut College, NY, Dir. Paula Pizzi-Black
2012 LAByrinth Theatre Company MasterClass Intensive at Connecticut College, NY
          directed Craig "Mums" Grant
2011 LAByrinth Theatre Company at Bard College, NY, Dir. Paula Pizzi-Black
2011 HOLAfestival at Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural & Educational Center, NY, Dir. Paula Pizzi-Black


Beauty Walks a Razor’s Edge 
2010 LAByrinth Theatre Company at Bard College, NY, Dir. Jill DeArmon

Undertow   (full length version)        
2014 Actors Studio Playwright-Director Unit, NYC, dir. Eva Minemar                 
2010 Nomads Social Theatre at Breath of Fire Latina Theatre Ensemble, Santa Ana CA,
          Dir. Angela Cruz
2009 LAByrinth Theatre Company at Bard College, NY, Dir. Padraic Lillis

Night Train                                      
2009 Breath of Fire Latina Theatre Ensemble 2nd Annual New Works Festival, Santa Ana, CA,
           Dir. Angela Mauro
2008 LAByrinth Theatre Company’s Barn Series at The Public Theatre, Dir. Felix Solis
2008 LAByrinth Theatre Company at Bennington College, VT, Dir. Felix Solis


W.A.C. Iraq: A Work-In-Program (Full-length Version)
2014 Rochester Latino Theatre Company, Rochester NY, Dir. Jose Casado       

2007 LAByrinth Theatre Company at Bennington College, VT, Dir. David Groom
2007 Repertorio Espanol, NY, Dir. Padraic Lillis
2007 Subjective Theatre Company’s Unconscious Reading Series, NY, Dir. May Adrales


Voices from the Front 
2006 Brooklyn Arts Council, NY, Dir. Padraic Lillis   

Los Hermanos Dela Cruz              
2003 LAByrinth Theatre Company at Saratoga Performing Arts Center, Saratoga Springs, NY,
           Dir. Marieke Gourby


Crossing Bridges                             
2002 LAByrinth Theatre Company at Saratoga Performing Arts Center, Saratoga Springs, NY,
           Dir. Ernesto Soto


Once We Met…            
2001 LAByrinth Theatre Company’s summer Intensive Workshop, NY, Dir. Charles Goforth

Film Scripts

Short

2019 Night Train
2017 Yazmin & Malik
2015 Isolated Incident
2015 Remembrance (co-written with Andrew Sammarco)
2003 J&P 4ever 
 
Full length
2020 Impact

2011 Night Train
2010
Los Gatos Negros De San Miguel 
2009 The Night Watch Man
2004 Los Hermanos Dela Cruz (screenplay co-written with Mary Perez)

Television
2019 On The Boulevard (one hour pilot)
2020 PICARD: In The Name of Our Fathers (Spec script)
    
                       





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