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Name: Marisela
Metro: San Francisco
Interests: Poetry, theatre, film, tango
Expertise:
Poetry
Published in Traverse, 26 (issue D), Pomona Valley Review, BorderSenses and Double Room.
Playwriting
American Triage :
Play commissioned by Marin Theatre Company 2006. 2007 MTC Nu Werkz series; 2008 MTC workshop production.
Braided Sorrow :
2005 Bay Area Playwrights Festival; 2006 Ford Amphitheatre Latina/o Summer Play Reading Series; 2006 Chicano/Latino Literary Prize 1st Place winner, University of California Irvine; September 2008, 1st production, El Centro Su Teatro, Denver, CO; 2009 Pen Center USA Literary Award for Drama.
Ghost Limb :
(Work in Progress)
Just Theatre 2007 Play Lab.
Heart Shaped Nebula:
(Work in Progress)
Woman on Fire :
2006 Primer Pasos: A Festival de Latino Plays, Latino Playwrights Initiative; 2007 Bay Area Playwrights Festival BASH (Bay Area SHorts); 2008 In The Rough reading series, Playwrights Foundation.
Occupation: Playwright, Poet
Message: message meEmail: email me
Website: visit my website
Member Since:
6/9/2005
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| Go See Drip at Crowded Fire
This is the closing weekend for Drip, a Crowded Fire world premiere by Christina Anderson. So get your tickets ASAP, because they're going fast, really fast.
Drip unfolds in two worlds, in the dreamscape of Mae who's just suffered a stroke as she re-lives and reinvents moments in her past in an effort to come to terms with old emotional scars and in the hard reality of her grandson Brughjefferson's house arrest as he struggles with his inability to be by her deathbed and come to terms with his own childhood scars. Our guides through and between these two worlds are a chorus who shapeshift into major characters in lives of Mae and Brughjefferson.
 
(Black and white photo): Mollena Williams as Mae Roslyn. David Skillman as Jerome Roslyn. (Color photo): Dacid Skillman, Melvina Jones, and Kele Nitoto as Krew. (top); Shoresh Alaudini as Brughjefferson and Skyler Cooper as Rai. Photos by Dave Nowakowski.
I was very touched by the play. As someone who has a family member who's suffered a stroke, seeing the moments when Mae is being treated in the hospital in the real world interpreted as a nightmare in her dreamscape really resonated with me.
Bravo to the entire cast and Crowded Fire for bringing this new play to life.
-M
p.s. check out the SF Chronicle's review of Drip.
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| And Away It Goes
I just emailed Heart Shaped Nebula to the good folks at Marin Theatre Company. Yes, last night I finished my edits. Well, I still have a few edits I'd like to make, but they would require more time. Ah yes, time. Of which, there is little. Especially since tomorrow is November 20th and I have to get my Lark submission postmarked and on its way.
Thankfully the script is ready, now I just need to fill out the form and mail it.
And, I have to say, it feels good to get back into that play. Really good. There's just so much that I really love about it (and I know it might sound a little arrogant to say you love your play, but I do and I think playwrights should love what they're working on, because...why else do it?).
 
I love the Greek mythology, the astronomy, the bits of myself that are in it, the bits of other people, the Texas references.
So cross your fingers.
-M
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| Edits, Edits, Everywhere
Last night on the way to RPI I grabbed my printed script of Heart Shaped Nebula and made one final pass at it, that is, reading and making edits in the margin. I'm half way through the process of translating those edits and notes into changes in my second draft. I'm set on finishing those edits tonight and emailing the script to Marin Theatre (remember, they asked to read the full length for Sky Cooper).
Then I've gotta send it to Kinko's tomorrow as well and send it to the Lark--postmark deadline November 20th.
Lots to do, but there's nothing like deadlines to get a fire lit under you.
More later,
M
p.s. I'm going to see 3 plays this week: Drip tomorrow night and The Bald Soprano both Friday and Saturday
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| RPI Recap
That makes two nights in a row of theatre. However, last night was a workshop for the Resident Playwrights at the Playwrights Foundation. Two playwrights presented work, some really interesting stuff, and then the entire group of playwrights headed over to Dos Piñas, a neighboring taquería, for dinner.
Over plates of burritos, enchiladas, and tacos we talked about the plays currently up in the Bay Area, movies, the necessity of contracts between artists, and family histories--there was a long conversation about World War II.
Dinner ended when the taquería closed and we all rambled out the door towards our respective routes home. It was great to hang out with the group, we usually end so late that no one is up for hanging out. Hopefully we'll have more opportunities this year to just hang out.
More later,
M
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| Heart Shaped Nebula Makes It To Round II of Sky Cooper Award
I just got an email informing me that Heart Shaped Nebula has made it to round II and I can now submit the entire play for consideration. If you'll recall, the way this award works only playwrights with agents could submit their entire full length. Those of without agents submitted 10 pages, with the hopes that our 10 pages would get us an invitation to submit our entire play.
I had thought my play hadn't made it to round II because the original guidelines said that by October 15th playwrights would be informed of their play's status, or rather, asked to submit their entire play. Most likely they've had a lot of plays to read and it took longer to sift through the submissions.
Regardless, I'm very excited to submit the entire play. That makes three deadlines. I'm submitting Heart Shaped Nebula to: 1) Sky Cooper (by the weekend); 2) the Bay Area Playwrights Festival (deadline November 30); and the Lark's Playwrights Week (postmark deadline November 20!!!).
Busy busy busy,
M
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