←Recommendations of Count Yourself Among the Lucky

Lucky to have been a fly on the wall as this couple gets to grow intimacy and trust with each other.

This beautifully deconstructed play has the heart of a fable and challenges our perceptions around justice, love and destiny. Alicia is a playwright to follow.

The Workshop Theater is pleased to recognize Alicia Margarita Olivo as a playwright selected out of a competitive pool of applicants for our Spring 2021 Writer’s Intensive. The Writer’s Intensive is an eight-week long, playwright-driven process geared towards revising an existing play. Alicia has a masterful hand with character and relationships; the play's interaction with surrealism only heightens the intense emotions felt by Belén and Andy as they navigate the twists and turns of their relationship. Our congratulations and thanks to Alicia.

The past is never just the past. Our past teaches us about our present and helps us, possibly, in seeing a better future. Alicia Margarita Olivo's exploration of the past and its power is one worth seeing on stage. I can't wait to see a production of this show in the near future! Great play.

You don't really know if this is a dream or reality, nevermind that it's a play, but that's what makes this staged experience so wonderful. The dialogue is both harsh and poetic, and the projections are used so wisely. Alica Margarita Olivo does a wonderful job of unfolding a relationship, the traumatic past, and a possible future.

A lush, atmospheric, and highly theatrical piece with compelling stage images and visual metaphors used throughout. The two complex characters at the center of this piece are rendered with such clarity and nuance. I appreciated that Olivo simultaneously did not shy away from the traumas (familial and otherwise) these characters face and have faced, while also centering this loving relationship. It acknowledged their hardships while still maintaining hope and possibility.

An experimental play that explores love and liminal spaces through comic books and the skeleton of a car. The characters are rendered as complex through powerful visual metaphors, and their journeys toward catharsis are equal parts heartwrenching and triumphant.

A specific, provocative exploration of love and baggage. A gripping subliminal world that dares you to pay attention. This play demands a stage.

A beautiful and richly visual meditation on love, relationships, family, chosen and not, with a skeleton car and a dark desert highway. Completely gorgeous and original.