Alisha Espinosa

New York City is the Schrodinger's Cat of America: simultaneously the greatest and worst place in the world to live, a city of wealth or of poverty, of dirt or of concrete. The only way to know what it's really like to live there is to be there--whether it's Five Points in the 1890s, the Queensbridge Houses in the 1940s, or a BBQ restaurant in 2018. Open the city like a dollhouse and witness the ragged cycle for yourself.

On the outskirts of a college town, Lucia and Liliana, two sisters, try to live together after Liliana is assaulted by a classmate. Xander Briggs, a local cop embroiled in recent incidents of police brutality, struggles with his responsibilities as an upholder of the law in these times. As she deals with Liliana's nightly disappearances, Lucia and Xander confront each other on the ground where a boy was recently shot. Meanwhile Liliana has found a way to make her trauma useful, and no one's prepared for what she has in mind.

Hero and Ophelia are among the Shakespearan roles young women are made to covet and prepare for. But sometimes the role you long for becomes the role you despise, especially if the lines between art and life begin to blur. Who are Ophelia and Hero to the contemporary woman--who are Hero and Ofelia in our lives?

Luisa and Gabriel are about to get married and are moving into a new home--until Gabriel uncovers boxes and boxes of objects Luisa has kept from past relationships as an archive. When he demands that she purge the memories of the past, she is met with a dilemma and forced to confront the place of the past in her present.

In the city, the lives of three girls comes crashing together in an
unimaginable collision. Daphne, a self-assured woman who rotates men like spices
on a lazy-susan, lives with her sister Paloma, a woman whose monogamous
relationship is at the core of her being. Together they fight each other and the
patriarchy (each in their own way). Meanwhile, Miel, a girl they’ve never met, suffers
under the tyranny of her kidnapper and pimp. All three women are united under the
crush of the capitalistic, patriarchal system, but when Paloma is assaulted, an
evolution is triggered in Daphne that the world, and Daphne, cannot grasp. When
evolution tips the balance of physical power in her favor, Daphne is forced to decide: who am I, what am I capable of, and what should I do about it? (Oh---and also there’s a
guy named Smith; he shows up a lot too.)

What makes us who we are--is it love? Are we shaped, molded, and made into who we are because of the things and people we love? If so, what happens when those loves fall apart? Rosa's love for Heath is intense and exhilarating, but its inception as an illicit affair has consequence on the relationship not only in their present but in their future. Can you shake off your past or is their always some part of you that is pulled by it? A coming of age story through love and mistakes.

Nicolasa just wants to get laid. Dan doesn't know how to deal with his transphobia. Celia is being suffocated by everyone's expectations. And it turns out Millenials are a little more complex than we give them credit for. Explore the drama and the comedy of life through the eyes of Millenials in seven ten minute plays.