Brandon Bautista

Brandon Bautista is a Filipino-American writer and actor from the Bay Area just trying to be somebody for his ancestors, his family, and his dreams. A graduate of NYU Drama, Brandon’s plays have been developed at The Kennedy Center, NYU, The Makers Ensemble, and The Tank. Brandon received a Merit Award and was the 2nd place honoree for the John Cauble Outstanding Short play from the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival. Brandon is based in Los Angeles, California. Website: brandonabautista.com

Brandon Bautista is a Filipino-American writer and actor from the Bay Area just trying to be somebody for his ancestors, his family, and his dreams. A graduate of NYU Drama, Brandon’s plays have been developed at The Kennedy Center, NYU, The Makers Ensemble, and The Tank. Brandon received a Merit Award and was the 2nd place honoree for the John Cauble Outstanding Short play from the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival. Brandon is based in Los Angeles, California. Website: brandonabautista.com

Scripts

THE LAST MARCHING BAND IN AMERICA

by Brandon Bautista

Cast Size
7
Genre
comedy,
drama

In the Midwest of California, a young Filpino boy runs away from death to enact his own ritual of healing, stumbling upon his town's recreational marching band, the heart of America's salvation and the last marching band in America.

In the Midwest of California, a young Filpino boy runs away from death to enact his own ritual of healing, stumbling upon his town's recreational marching band, the heart of America's salvation and the last marching band in America.

THE MULTIVERSE OF FRIENDSHIP

by Brandon Bautista

Cast Size
5
Genre
adventure,
comedy

In a Pho restaurant in Nowhere, California, Bo has a meeting with the Universe in search for his lost best friend, Trixie. Spanning multiverses where nuns rob the Smithsonian, cowboys search for the American dream, two high schoolers obsess over Vanessa Hudgens' The Princess Switch, and two best friends record a Wingstop mukbang and discuss a future that will never happen. A play on memorial grief, friendship...

In a Pho restaurant in Nowhere, California, Bo has a meeting with the Universe in search for his lost best friend, Trixie. Spanning multiverses where nuns rob the Smithsonian, cowboys search for the American dream, two high schoolers obsess over Vanessa Hudgens' The Princess Switch, and two best friends record a Wingstop mukbang and discuss a future that will never happen. A play on memorial grief, friendship, and…YOUR F*CKING MOM! AYYYYY!!!

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exhibition: Fil-O-PiNOS

by Brandon Bautista

Cast Size
5
Genre
drama

In 1904, the United States held the World’s Fair in St. Louis, Missouri.

One of the exhibits was a human zoo of my people.

Theatre is sort of an exhibit.

In an unnamed city in the Bay Area, California, a family of Filipino-Americans inherit a run-down restaurant, a suburban home, and a Filipina housekeeper. What happens when the establishment of a legacy clashes with the healing of another? exhibition: Fil-O...

In 1904, the United States held the World’s Fair in St. Louis, Missouri.

One of the exhibits was a human zoo of my people.

Theatre is sort of an exhibit.

In an unnamed city in the Bay Area, California, a family of Filipino-Americans inherit a run-down restaurant, a suburban home, and a Filipina housekeeper. What happens when the establishment of a legacy clashes with the healing of another? exhibition: Fil-O-PiNOS is a new play by Brandon Bautista, exploring the ways that Filipinos live in art and are observed in life.

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HELL HATH TURNED OVER. F*CK

by Brandon Bautista

Cast Size
2
Genre
dark comedy

HELL HATH TURNED OVER. F*CK is a 60-minute satirical play about a post-apocolyptic, God stricken world on fire cause Texaco left the air-fryer plugged in. A Gen Z nun and a seminarian (baby priest, duh) contemplate the new meaning of their lives and journey into the remaining remnants of the American past: cancel culture, mukbangs, and Hollywood, to find it. A satire of the American Western Social Media...

HELL HATH TURNED OVER. F*CK is a 60-minute satirical play about a post-apocolyptic, God stricken world on fire cause Texaco left the air-fryer plugged in. A Gen Z nun and a seminarian (baby priest, duh) contemplate the new meaning of their lives and journey into the remaining remnants of the American past: cancel culture, mukbangs, and Hollywood, to find it. A satire of the American Western Social Media experiment, false escapism and the threat of mukbangs.

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VULGAR TITLE THAT DEALS WITH RACE

by Brandon Bautista

Cast Size
6—10
Genre
comedy,
drama,
satire

A group of workshoppers workshop a play about a GROUP of workshoppers workshopping a play about a gRoUp of workshoppers workshopping a play about…

In workshops or staged readings or classrooms or or or—what happens when playwrights of color need to stage their plays with only white actors in the room or or or—what happens when performers of color need to perform scenes with only white plays in the room or or or...

A group of workshoppers workshop a play about a GROUP of workshoppers workshopping a play about a gRoUp of workshoppers workshopping a play about…

In workshops or staged readings or classrooms or or or—what happens when playwrights of color need to stage their plays with only white actors in the room or or or—what happens when performers of color need to perform scenes with only white plays in the room or or or—

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