Story Shaper
Story Shaping for Storytellers
fantasma By Benjamine benne
Director & Developmental Dramaturg · 2021 - Present
Offered dramaturgical research & developmental support for new play that explores US/Guatemalan relations, Cold Ware & Reagan-era politricks, political/religious propaganda, generational gaps, myth, memory, and race. Commissioned (Benjamin Benne) by South Coast Repertory. Visiting artists in residency at Duke University.
arthur By Sam Marks, dir. David Cromer
Developmental Dramaturg · Playwrights Horizons · August 2021
Provided developmental feedback & critical analysis on immigration, xenophobia, and race on a new play of the horror genre.
“Work-in-Progress”
Dramaturg · Interdisciplinary Program · Sundance Institute · 2021
Dedicated dramaturg, providing 1:1 critical response and developmental support to six artists representing diverse praxes (from orchestral performance art and TV pilot to immersive VR programming that explores memory and trauma) at various stages of developmental process.
La Comedia of errors bilingual adaptation by Lydia G. Gacia & Bill Rauch Oregon
Adaptation / Translation Dramaturg · Oregon Shakespeare Festival 2019
Offered bilingual developmental and production support for new adaptation of Shakespeare’s The Comedy of Errors set at the US-MX border, written/performed in English and Spanish. Production an 18-stop community tour in Oregon.
Alma
Developmental Dramaturg · The Old Globe 2019 · O’Neil National Playwrights Conference 2018
Provided feedback toward major rewrite, not only structurally but also to sharpen the play’s politics related to immigration policies and histories, ethnicity, and race. Winner of National Latinx Playwriting Award (2019) & Blue Ink Playwriting Award (2019).
This American Wife
Devising Dramaturg · 2015 - Present · Collaboration with Michael Breslin (writer-performer) and Patrick Foley (writer-performer)
Offering developmental support for This American Wife, a multi-media theater and dance work that investigates obsession, queerness, performance, and Reality through The Real Housewives series.
New Work / Production Dramaturg · Fake Friends / FourthWall · Summer 2021
New Work / Production Dramaturg · Next Door at NYTW · Summer 2018
New Work / Production Dramaturg · Yale Cabaret · Spring 2017 & Fall 2017
Black Mountain Women [formerly, Daughter of the Hills] with Martha Redbone
New Musical / Developmental Dramaturg · The Public · 2017
Provided developmental dramaturgy to Americana soul singer-songwriter Martha Redbone for new full-length musical commissioned by The Public, during two-week residency at the Kimmel Center through Joe's Pub.
If Pretty Hurts Ugly Must Be a Muhfucka by Tori Sampson
New Play / Production Dramaturg · Carlotta Festival of New Plays · 2017
MAS: MEXICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES BY MILTA ORTIZ
New Play Dramaturg · Latinx Theatre Commons Carnival of New Plays · 2015
FUGA MUNDI BY MAR GÓMEZ GLEZ
New Play Dramaturg · 2013 - 15 · Collaboration with Mar Gómez Glez (playwright) and Jacob Janssen (director)
Dramaturged and collaborated on rewrite, translation of Fuga Mundi by US-based Spanish playwright.
Secured financial support from spain arts & culture in Washington, DC., to establish International Hot Desk Playwright Residency at Center Stage for in-person workshopping.
New Play Dramaturg · Freelance · 2015
Plus, a reading at SPAIN: arts & culture in 2015
KING OF THE YEES · BY LAURen YEE
Developmental Dramaturg · Play Lab at Baltimore Center Stage · 2015
TRASH / LA DANZA CIRCULAR DE MARÍA
Production Dramaturg · Borderlands & El Círculo Teatral (México) · 2013-14