my eyes are up here honey

by lily gonzales

Immaterial, a digital avatar company, is creating new realities for queer people and hungry to expand. When the company enters the lives of Billie, Yasmin, and Francis, each person is faced with the truth of what their physical bodies need.

my eyes are up here honey is an exploration of boundaries, open relationships, and queer commodification.

Immaterial, a digital avatar company, is creating new realities for queer people and hungry to expand. When the company enters the lives of Billie, Yasmin, and Francis, each person is faced with the truth of what their physical bodies need.

my eyes are up here honey is an exploration of boundaries, open relationships, and queer commodification.

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  • Playwrights Foundation: my eyes are up here honey by lily gonzales
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    The community of National Committee readers for the 46th Bay Area Playwrights Festival advanced MY EYES ARE UP HERE HONEY as a Semi-Finalist at Playwrights Foundation. We were highly engaged by the way these three characters struggled to navigate their relationships outside and inside the virtual world, and the stresses of the virtual world on bodies. We appreciated in this non-linear play the themes of queerness, self, loneliness, corporate manipulation, voyeurism, and multiple realities. We hope this play is considered for further development and investigation, and finds dedicated...

    The community of National Committee readers for the 46th Bay Area Playwrights Festival advanced MY EYES ARE UP HERE HONEY as a Semi-Finalist at Playwrights Foundation. We were highly engaged by the way these three characters struggled to navigate their relationships outside and inside the virtual world, and the stresses of the virtual world on bodies. We appreciated in this non-linear play the themes of queerness, self, loneliness, corporate manipulation, voyeurism, and multiple realities. We hope this play is considered for further development and investigation, and finds dedicated collaborators in this play’s journey towards production. #BAPF46

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  • Devin Porter: my eyes are up here honey by lily gonzales
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    Lily's unique voice is like no other. The playwright creates a world that will make you question intamacy and vulnerability within a digital age. This play is nothing like anything I've read or seen before. Can't wait to see where this play goes. A great play by a great writer.

    Lily's unique voice is like no other. The playwright creates a world that will make you question intamacy and vulnerability within a digital age. This play is nothing like anything I've read or seen before. Can't wait to see where this play goes. A great play by a great writer.

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  • The Workshop Theater: my eyes are up here honey by lily gonzales
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    The Workshop Theater is pleased to recognize lily gonzales as a playwright selected out of a competitive pool of applicants for our Winter 2021 Writer’s Intensive. The Writer’s Intensive is an eight-week long, playwright-driven process geared towards revising an existing play. lily’s intuitive approach to playwriting results in characters that are practically touchable and compelling, unique situations that audiences will never have seen onsage before. Their work is poetic, moving, and cries out for the stage. Our congratulations and thanks to lily.

    The Workshop Theater is pleased to recognize lily gonzales as a playwright selected out of a competitive pool of applicants for our Winter 2021 Writer’s Intensive. The Writer’s Intensive is an eight-week long, playwright-driven process geared towards revising an existing play. lily’s intuitive approach to playwriting results in characters that are practically touchable and compelling, unique situations that audiences will never have seen onsage before. Their work is poetic, moving, and cries out for the stage. Our congratulations and thanks to lily.

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Character Information

None of these characters are white (casting should be identity conscious).
SIEVE could be performed live or pre-recorded.
  • Billie
    Customer service representative for a startup, 100 followers. Gender non-confirming person or transmasculine.
    24
    Transgender or transmasculine,
    nonbinary / gender non conforming
    Can be played by:
    • Actor Age
      20s
    • Actor Race/Ethnic Identity
      Asian, Pacific Islander, or Asian American,
      Black, African, Caribbean, or African American,
      Indigenous, First Nation, or Native American,
      Latinx/o/a or Hispanic,
      Middle Eastern, North African, or Arab American,
      Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander,
      South Asian or South Asian American
    • Actor Gender Identity
      Non-binary
  • Yasmin
    First year graduate student, 1.5k followers. Femme person.
    23
    gender non-conforming,
    Non-binary,
    presents femme.
    Can be played by:
    • Actor Age
      20s
    • Actor Race/Ethnic Identity
      Black, African, Caribbean, or African American,
      Indigenous, First Nation, or Native American,
      Latinx/o/a or Hispanic,
      Middle Eastern, North African, or Arab American
    • Actor Gender Identity
      Female,
      Non-binary
  • Francis
    Poet and online creator, 18k followers. Non-binary femme person or trans woman.
    26
    Transgender Woman,
    gender non-conforming
    Can be played by:
    • Actor Age
      20s
    • Actor Race/Ethnic Identity
      Asian, Pacific Islander, or Asian American,
      Black, African, Caribbean, or African American,
      Indigenous, First Nation, or Native American,
      Latinx/o/a or Hispanic,
      Middle Eastern, North African, or Arab American,
      Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander,
      South Asian or South Asian American
    • Actor Gender Identity
      Female,
      Non-binary
  • SIEVE
    A representative for a new virtual start-up called IMMATERIAL, deeply into the culture of the company, no social media accounts. Not to be played by a cisgender man.
    Any age
    Female,
    Non-binary
    Can be played by:
    • Actor Age
      20s,
      30s,
      40s,
      50s,
      60s,
      70s+
    • Actor Race/Ethnic Identity
      Asian, Pacific Islander, or Asian American,
      Black, African, Caribbean, or African American,
      Indigenous, First Nation, or Native American,
      Latinx/o/a or Hispanic,
      Middle Eastern, North African, or Arab American,
      Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander,
      South Asian or South Asian American
    • Actor Gender Identity
      Female,
      Non-binary

Development History

  • Reading, Egg & Spoon Theater Collective, 2023
  • Reading, Echo Theater Company (Los Angeles), 2022

Awards