Directed by Alana Dietze
Rosaura, Queen of Constantinople, needs to marry in order to keep her throne. Can magic conjure the perfect suitor? Narasaki crafts a whimsical realm where rom-com meets a Renaissance fantasy. In this enchanting world, trickery and magic can help women obtain what they want, but they also must confront the moral repercussions of their choices once the spells wear off.
Substantial roles: 2 male, 2 female.
Directed by Khanisha Foster
Who are we, truly, in the dark? Four young beauty-pageant contestants trapped during a blackout are forced to reckon with their own ambitions, bare their secrets, and come together. Amid jokes, lively banter, and a good deal of tension, they grapple with their standing in an industry that both exploits and perpetuates stereotypes, and with their own motivations for participating in it, even those that are better left unsaid.
Substantial roles: 4 female, 1 male.
Directed by Alejandra Cisneros
In 1912 Los Angeles during the earliest era of silent films, Beatriz, an aspiring actress, struggles to make her mark in the fledgling film industry while working with the eccentric director Alarcón, who is fixated on producing a film of La cueva de Salamanca, a play by his noted Mexican ancestor. Against the backdrop of a rapidly growing city and a burgeoning film industry they struggle with its downsides: ambition, treachery, prejudice, and creatives eager to claim the latest genius idea as their own.
Substantial roles: 3 female, 2 male.
Directed by Jean Carlo Yunén Aróstegui
How do we understand what lies beyond the known, the urban, the so-called civilized? What if the natural forces that we fear had surprising things to teach us? Set in and around LA, this poetic text offers a unique perspective on the wilderness-urban border and imagines what it might mean to truly find a home in another, beyond difference and received ideas of belonging.
Directed by Michael Matthews
Los Angeles, early 1990s: As tensions boil and the threat of violence looms, two families entwined by both location and love find themselves living the American racial nightmare. A compelling drama portraying the ongoing horror of state-sanctioned cultural supremacy that extends from the religious persecution of early modern Spain to struggles for racial justice in the American present.
Directed by Alana Dietze
A choral play chronicling the struggles and pleasures of female sexuality in one Indian family. Over three generations, these women gradually learn to embrace their bodies and yearnings, freeing themselves — and a fourth generation — of long-held notions of womanhood.
In present-day Arizona, near the border with Mexico, the politically conservative sheriff is up for reelection. His daughter from a previous marriage and his new wife are brought together by destiny: a car collision far out in the Arizona desert, in the middle of a thunderstorm. Their forbidden love, discovered by the vengeful sheriff, sets in motion a tragic series of events that shows the horrific consequences of power run mad.
In present-day Arizona, near the border with Mexico, the politically conservative sheriff is up for reelection. His daughter from a previous marriage and his new wife are brought together by destiny: a car collision far out in the Arizona desert, in the middle of a thunderstorm. Their forbidden love, discovered by the vengeful sheriff, sets in motion a tragic series of events that shows the horrific consequences of power run mad.
This play reimagines the anxieties around social and cultural belonging in the space of a rapidly gentrifying South LA. In The Woodingle Puppet Show with Host Mr. C, as Constructed by Mr. Asinine with Calculations and Articulations of the Genius Sort, Oni explores questions of Blackness, and the hoops people are willing to jump through to prove that they are “black enough.”
Inda Craig-Galván’s What We Pay For Likes transports the squabbling, reputation-obsessed aristocrats of Madrid to a Calabasas populated by influencers whose lives revolve around their brands and social media views. When a handsome stranger comes to town, their relationships IRL turn out to be much more complicated than their polished profiles suggest.