October 8, 2012
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American Triage: 2012 Met Life Nuestras Voces Finalist
I’ve had this news under my hat for a few weeks now. I wanted to have my Storify on American Triage finished so I could link to it here, but it will have to wait. In the mean time…Hooray!American Triage is my second play (well, it ties for second as I was writing it and Woman on Fire at the same time–something I don’t advise doing). It was a commission for Marin Theatre Company way back in 2006. I wrote it in 2007 and it received a workshop production in 2008 at MTC. Since then I did a round of rewrites and East LA Rep down in Los Angeles put on a public reading of the play in the spring of 2011.And now American Triage is headed to NYC for a reading on November 27th as part of Repertorio Espanol‘s Nuestras Voces competition. Director Tlaloc Rivas will be returning to NYC to direct my reading, for which I’m very grateful that he’s juggling in teaching schedule to come in and do this for my play.In early 2013 they plan to announce the winner, right now there are 9 finalists whose plays will be presented beginning October 23 and ending with mine.So if you’re in NYC this November and looking for something to do, you can check out one of my early plays. Here’s the synopsis:Teens Lalo and Fatima struggle to keep their family and faith in tact when their parents are deported after immigration raids sweep through their city. But when Lalo turns to his guardian angel for help he sets into motion events that threaten to further fracture his family.More soon,M
