plays
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full-length
Five Faces (Oil on Canvas)
drama, AAPI characters, female-led | 3F, 4M
Directed by Daisy Castro in 2024 as a staged reading with CIRCA-Pintig History Theatre Community
Directed by Isabel Rodriguez in 2024 as a staged reading with Fishwife Productions
Directed by Jema Amezola in 2022 for The Larking House’s Playwright’s Intensive
Costa Mesa, 2021. Studio art major Diane comes home from NYU after avoiding it for four years. All of the things she had left behind are patiently waiting: her aloof mother Prue, her meek brother Frank, her crestfallen former friend Anthony, and the empty space left behind by her late father Francis. Meanwhile, Prue races against the clock to finish a piece for an art exhibition celebrating AAPI women—ignoring deeply troubled Diane in the process. The Reilly family is haunted by their pasts, both distant and near, and must come together to find peace.
The Larking House Playwright's Intensive - November 2022
Fishwife Productions - February 2024
Chicago Filipino American Theatre Festival - October 2024
Glorianne
drama, AAPI characters, LGBTQ+ characters, female-led | 4F 2M
Mayari is definitely straight. When summer comes around and she fools around with a boy from school at a party, she ends up skipping her period—three days, seven days, two weeks. Maybe it's the stress of her cousin Chloe staying over amidst Tito Boy and Tita Queenie's divorce, or pressure from her mom to take school more seriously. Mayari finds an ally in Glorianne, a Goth girl from school with a big heart and even bigger winged liner, and the two girls grow closer as the heat turns up in the Palm Desert summer. Tito Boy comes around to visit, and, after catching wind that Mayari had an abortion, convinces himself that Glorianne is a manananggal preying on his niece. Mayari reckons with her newfound feelings for Glorianne, and must dissuade her uncle from his monster hunt.
Marcello & Musetta Break Up for Good
drama | one-act | 1F, 5M (flexible)
Directed by Reed Flores in 2021 for the 10th season of the OC-Centric New Play Festival
The story of La Bohème continues in this fiery one-act, as the relationship between Marcello and Musetta implodes, Rodolfo grieves for Mimì, Colline and Schaunard make plans, and Benoît, insensitive as ever, ups the rent. Marcello and Rodolfo realize that in life and love, sometimes you have to let someone go for good.
sa ilaw
drama, AAPI characters, LGBTQ+ characters | 1NB, 2M, 3F
Morgan Ilagan is a playwright. Their boyfriend Shiv is a dramaturg. Shiv is excited to celebrate Diwali with his partner for the first time, but Morgan is stuck in the middle of the worst writer’s block of their life. Everyone else’s theatrical career flourishes around them—including Lucy, their ex-girlfriend and former writing partner, who just had an original play make its debut. Desperate to make moves in their playwriting career, Morgan gathers a group to stage a production of their latest play: their sister Brynn as director, Brynn’s fiancé Pete as stage manager, and Shiv as dramaturg. As Lucy’s show finds more and more success, Morgan dives deeper into their fixation on their own play, and Shiv’s Diwali plans are all but forgotten.
short plays
Barbicide Float
comedy | 15-minute | 1M, 1F, 1NB
The aliens came two months ago. Barber-turned-soda-jerk Faraj has traded his clippers and scissors for malt powder and ice cream, and has found himself caring for scrappy fourteen-year-old Sonya amidst the chaos. Their new mission is simple: serve up sodas with a smile, and make enough money to escape from the city, so Sonya can find her mother and Faraj can find his husband and son. When the soda shop duo comes face-to-face with one of the invaders in disguise, they must find a way to outsmart the would-be alien overlord.
Batsquatch Blues
comedy | 10-minute | 4 actors, any genders
Directed by Tracy Hazas in 2023 for CUNY Queens College’s Muse’s Tools play festival
Rival paranormal investigators Casey Lane, a YouTube sensation, and Dr. Lee Caldwell, a researcher with UC Berkeley’s folklore studies department, cross paths on a hunt for an elusive Pacific Northwest cryptid.
Sheet Ghost
romantic comedy | one-act | 2F 1M
Directed by Elyse Price in 2024 for CUNY Queens College’s Muse’s Tools play festival
Mona Zanetti has had it with love. Alice, the lady who runs the laundromat down the street, peers into Mona’s future with her tarot cards to see what romance lies in wait for the heartbroken young woman—only for their session to be interrupted by the spirit that Alice thinks is haunting the place.
So It Goes
drama, historical, LGBTQ+ | one-act | 4F, 8M
Directed by Rose Gonzales in 2018 for the OCC Student Repertory’s One-Act Play Festival
High school student Flick Fletcher already has too many problems to keep up with, but becoming the catalyst for troubled Marty O’Malley’s bi awakening was… unexpected, to say the least. While their classmates in the Class of 1962 are busy closing out this chapter of their lives, these boys find themselves navigating their ways through new beginnings.
Stern All for Your Lives
drama, historical | one-act | 2F, 7M (flexible)
Directed by Rose Gonzales in 2019 for the OCC Student Repertory’s One-Act Play Festival
15-year-old Peter Goodwin embarks on his first whaling voyage, but soon finds that the business is far more brutal than he was led to believe.
