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Full-Length Plays

  • Technicolor Life
  • BLISS (or Emily Post is Dead!)
  • Through the Eye of a Needle
  • M-Theory
  • ¡SOLDADERA!
  • SISTERS THREE
  • Medusa’s Song
  • O: A Rhapsody in Divorce
  • Visiting Hours
  • S.O.E.
  • Contributing Writer

Short Plays

  • Flooding
  • Normal
  • Epic Love
  • Moon Man
  • Looking for Bruce
  • Once Removed
  • A Well-Trained Soldier
  • Back Stock
  • Clowning Around
  • The Delivery
  • The Attic

¡SOLDADERA!

¡SOLDADERA!

Summary:

Part epic and part grotesque comedy, ¡SOLDADERA! is set in the Mexican Revolution during The Day of Dead Feast. A teenage girl with face blindness finds the camp where her mother fled to become a revolutionary soldadera (female solider). She is taken in by the other soldaderas and unintentionally catches the eye of the lascivious, god-fearing colonel. Upon learning her mother died bravely in battle, the girl decides to become a soldadera. This sets off the unveiling of secrets that threatens to tear the camp apart.

Accolades:

-2018 Workshop presentation with MOXIE Theatre; San Diego
-Finalist for The Source Festival
-2016 Visiting Playwright at Loyola Marymount University with a workshop presentation.
-2014 Visiting Playwright for UC Santa Barbara’s LAUNCH PAD: New Plays in Process
-Semi-Finalist O’Neill National Playwrights Conference

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