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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/Workshop/Play Development/Readings:
La Potencia
2024 LAByrinth Theater Company Barn Series, directed by Paula Pizzi-Black
2023 Actors Studio Playwright-Director Unit, directed by Paula Pizzi-Black
2022 LAByrinth Theater Company Summer Intensive at CulturaLab LIC/Art Gallery/Performing Arts Theatre
The Traci Reyes Syndrome
2023 LAByrinth Theater Company Barn Series, directed by Wilemina Olivia-Garcia
Caged
2023 - Downtown Urban Arts Theatre Festival, 
directed by Wilemina Olivia-Garcia
TGIF Can't Get Here Soon Enough
2021 - Latinx Playwrights Workshop Festival
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
Night Train                                      
2009 Strings Attached Theatre Company at Roy Arias Theatre, NY, Dir. Shawn Renfro

W.A.C. Iraq: A Work-In-Progress (Full-length Version)                    
2008 Breath of Fire Latina Theatre Ensemble, Santa Ana, CA, Dir. Jose Casas    
W.A.C. Iraq (One Act Version) 
2015 Play with Dinner Reading Series at Coogan's, NY, Dir. Maggie Low
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 

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

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, 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, directed. 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 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 HOLA festival 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, 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, 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 scripts

2022 - Union Square
2020 - Lester Collins
2020 - Between a Hotdog and a Hard Place
2019 - Night Train
2017 - Yazmin & Malik
2015 - Isolated Incident
2015 - Remembrance (co-written with Andrew Sammarco)
2003 - J&P 4ever 
 
Full length scripts
2023 - In Da Boogie Down (screenplay adaptation of play)
2022 - La Potencia (screenplay adaptation of play)
2022 - Los Abandonados/The Abandoned
2021 - Instruments of Darkness
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 scripts
2019 - On The Boulevard (one hour pilot)
2020 - PICARD: In The Name of Our Fathers (Spec script)
    
                       





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