Wilfredo Ramos

Wilfredo (Freddie) Ramos Jr. (they/he) is a Chicago-based writer and educator. Freddie partners with artists of all ages to shape culture through creative play. Freddie is an alum of El Semillero, a playwriting collective that fostered the development of new works by Latinx playwrights. Their play "Incorporate" was selected as Semifinalist for the 2017 O'Neill Theatre Center National Playwrights Conference and as an Honorable Mention for 50 Playwright Project's Best Unproduced Latinx Plays 2017.

In May 2015, Freddie received a BA in English from Yale University. Freddie graduated with distinction in the major and was selected to participate in the English department's Writing Concentration program. Freddie has studied playwriting with Donald Margulies, Sarah Ruhl, Jiréh Breon Holder...

Wilfredo (Freddie) Ramos Jr. (they/he) is a Chicago-based writer and educator. Freddie partners with artists of all ages to shape culture through creative play. Freddie is an alum of El Semillero, a playwriting collective that fostered the development of new works by Latinx playwrights. Their play "Incorporate" was selected as Semifinalist for the 2017 O'Neill Theatre Center National Playwrights Conference and as an Honorable Mention for 50 Playwright Project's Best Unproduced Latinx Plays 2017.

In May 2015, Freddie received a BA in English from Yale University. Freddie graduated with distinction in the major and was selected to participate in the English department's Writing Concentration program. Freddie has studied playwriting with Donald Margulies, Sarah Ruhl, Jiréh Breon Holder, Brendan Pelsue, Lindsey Ferrentino, and Lee Ryan Campbell.

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Scripts

Incorporate

by Wilfredo Ramos

Cast Size
6—12
Genre
fantasy,
movement/physical,
political,
satire,
science fiction,
tragedy

Just as the American people are about to make a decision between two unappetizing choices for Commander-in-Chief, a new offering suddenly appears on the menu: Brenda Blender. Specially made by Celebrity Chef Bilious Baker from rotting food and assorted kitchen appliances, Blender mounts a spirited campaign to unite a nation on the verge of self-cannibalization.
Through satire and puppetry, Incorporate calls...

Just as the American people are about to make a decision between two unappetizing choices for Commander-in-Chief, a new offering suddenly appears on the menu: Brenda Blender. Specially made by Celebrity Chef Bilious Baker from rotting food and assorted kitchen appliances, Blender mounts a spirited campaign to unite a nation on the verge of self-cannibalization.
Through satire and puppetry, Incorporate calls out the ways in which people dehumanize one another in the endless war for power and privilege, as a means to remind members of the public that the individuals we cast as our super-heroes and super-villains are not superhuman, but simply human: fragile, fumbling, and flawed.

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Reconquistadorxs

by Wilfredo Ramos

Cast Size
3
Genre
dark comedy,
farce,
political,
satire

​RUMORS OF A NEW CONTINENT have inspired the esteemed explorers Niña, Pinta, and Santa María to sail into the unknown in search of plunder. Can they be stopped? 3 ACTORS. ANY GENDER.

​RUMORS OF A NEW CONTINENT have inspired the esteemed explorers Niña, Pinta, and Santa María to sail into the unknown in search of plunder. Can they be stopped? 3 ACTORS. ANY GENDER.