Hell yeah. As both a music geek and a lover of great playwriting, this play checked all the boxes for me. I loved how the past and present are always in dialogue, as we are always communicating with who we used to be and who we hope to be. Beautiful, beautiful stuff.

The characters in this play, in every sense of the word, rock. They're as mesmerizingly flawed, intriguing, appalling in their actions, and yet overall so cool that Burbano's writing, with all the poetically gritty style contained within, lands and hits hard. Paints wonderful images of both the spectacularly mythic quality of fame, and the less idealized truth of what goes into it. Hard and thoughtful.

The Workshop Theater is pleased to recognize Diana Burbano as a playwright selected out of a competitive pool of applicants for our Fall 2020 Writer’s Intensive. The Writer’s Intensive is an eight-week long, playwright-driven process geared towards revising an existing play. Fabulous Monsters is a visceral exploration of the overlooked legacy of Latinas in punk rock; the play moves in bursts of energy as the scenes take on the form of punk music, while giving space to women who thrived in a male-dominated world and are now questioning their part in that movement. Our congratulations and thanks to Diana.