Playwrights Foundation enthusiastically recommends this play, CJ, A TRILINGUAL PLAY, as a Semi-Finalist for the Bay Area Playwrights Festival 2020. We were moved by the quality of the writing and the relevant and compelling themes that spoke to the mission of our festival. It excelled in a competitive process of 735 plays submitted this year and rose to the top after a six month long process discussing its merits with both national and local Bay Area readers, and we hope it moves swiftly towards production.

Heartbreaking, wildly funny, and imaginative. Floresislas deftly spins a captivating tale with universal themes while seamlessly integrating four languages into the narrative. This play is not only beautifully written; it boldly explores the intersectionality of Deaf and Latinx cultures in the quest to understand identity.

I was lucky enough to see a reading of "CJ" as part of Milagro Theatre's Ingenio Festival in September and highly recommend it for further production/development opportunities. Mercedes expertly navigates between different worlds in a story that incorporates 4 different languages. Her writing is fiercely loving, generous and beautiful.