Daniela Gonzalez y Perez

Daniela Gonzalez y Perez (they/she) is a queer Puerto Rican actor, playwright, screenwriter, and teaching artist born and raised in Brooklyn. Their writing explores the intersections of race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, and religion through fantasy, "magical realism", sci-fi, and that “Brooklyn shit” to confront/reject societal norms, barriers, and the displacement of peoples. They are currently in Pipeline Theatre Company's PlayLab ('24/'25), a recent UCROSS Fellow ('23), were in Clubbed Thumb's Early-Career Writers' Group that resulted in a public reading of THE RAPTORS and being mentored by David Henry Hwang ('22/23), a Finalist for the Ya Tu Sabes Monologue Slam presented by Nosotros x NBC ('22), and recently a fellow of The Latinx Playwrights Circle’s Intensive Mentorship Program...

Daniela Gonzalez y Perez (they/she) is a queer Puerto Rican actor, playwright, screenwriter, and teaching artist born and raised in Brooklyn. Their writing explores the intersections of race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, and religion through fantasy, "magical realism", sci-fi, and that “Brooklyn shit” to confront/reject societal norms, barriers, and the displacement of peoples. They are currently in Pipeline Theatre Company's PlayLab ('24/'25), a recent UCROSS Fellow ('23), were in Clubbed Thumb's Early-Career Writers' Group that resulted in a public reading of THE RAPTORS and being mentored by David Henry Hwang ('22/23), a Finalist for the Ya Tu Sabes Monologue Slam presented by Nosotros x NBC ('22), and recently a fellow of The Latinx Playwrights Circle’s Intensive Mentorship Program, which resulted in a public reading of ÁNGEL Y CHUPI (The Reinvented Queer Tale of the Puerto Rican Chupacabra), mentored by Migdalia Cruz ('22). They wrote TINKERBELL & THE LOST GIRL for Cosmic Cherry Festival ('23), ALIEN STRIPPERS for The 24 Hour Plays: Viral Monologues with INTAR ('22), have had two of their ten-minute plays, THE MARTIAN KING and UNOFFICIAL GIRLFRIEND, shown live at Fucked-Up Play Fest! ('21), two zoom readings of their full-length plays, ÁNGEL Y CHUPI and MY BROOKLYN ('21, '20), with The Latinx Playwrights Circle, and four plays selected for Gi60: International One-Minute Theatre Festival over the years. They hold a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Brooklyn College, is a proud member of INTAR’s Unit 52 and The Latinx Playwrights Circle, and is a Teaching Artist for Manhattan Theatre Club.

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Scripts

LEARNING HOW TO SQUIRT (Full-Length Version)

by Daniela Gonzalez y Perez

Cast Size
2
Genre
comedy,
drama,
experimental,
romantic comedy

A quirky queer aspiring sex therapist is on a mission to make herself squirt, but after 365 days of unsuccessful solo attempts, she forces herself to do the unthinkable...and go on a first date. An exploration of consent, sensuality, and intimacy-where connection might be the key, or just another detour.

A quirky queer aspiring sex therapist is on a mission to make herself squirt, but after 365 days of unsuccessful solo attempts, she forces herself to do the unthinkable...and go on a first date. An exploration of consent, sensuality, and intimacy-where connection might be the key, or just another detour.

LEARNING HOW TO SQUIRT (10-Minute Play Version)

by Daniela Gonzalez y Perez

Cast Size
2
Genre
comedy,
romantic comedy

A quirky queer aspiring sex therapist is on a mission to make herself squirt, but after 365 days of unsuccessful solo attempts, she forces herself to do the unthinkable and go on a first date.

A quirky queer aspiring sex therapist is on a mission to make herself squirt, but after 365 days of unsuccessful solo attempts, she forces herself to do the unthinkable and go on a first date.

LEARNING HOW TO SQUIRT (One-Act Play Version)

by Daniela Gonzalez y Perez

1
Cast Size
2
Genre
comedy,
drama,
romantic comedy

An exploration of consent, sensuality, and intimacy as we embark on a quirky young woman’s journey of making herself squirt.

An exploration of consent, sensuality, and intimacy as we embark on a quirky young woman’s journey of making herself squirt.

THE RAPTORS

by Daniela Gonzalez y Perez

1
Cast Size
7—8
Genre
drama,
experimental,
horror,
movement/physical,
mystery/thriller

BREAKING NEWS: Puerto Rico has just been declared the 51st state of the United States causing chaos to break out in the U.S. and on the island! As the last remaining resistance group of women and non-gendered people are being hunted by the government in El Yunque rainforest, strange things begin to occur when they’re forced to reckon with identity, trauma, and survival as time threatens to escape them and the...

BREAKING NEWS: Puerto Rico has just been declared the 51st state of the United States causing chaos to break out in the U.S. and on the island! As the last remaining resistance group of women and non-gendered people are being hunted by the government in El Yunque rainforest, strange things begin to occur when they’re forced to reckon with identity, trauma, and survival as time threatens to escape them and the race for their memory begins.

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TINKERBELL & THE LOST GIRL (Ten-Minute Play)

by Daniela Gonzalez y Perez

Cast Size
2
Genre
comedy

Wendy's dreaming of Peter's return, when an unexpected guest busts through her window with wings, a green dress, a stank face, and an ulterior motive, on the hunt for Peter.

Wendy's dreaming of Peter's return, when an unexpected guest busts through her window with wings, a green dress, a stank face, and an ulterior motive, on the hunt for Peter.

HORNY LITTLE TREE FROGS (Monologue)

by Daniela Gonzalez y Perez

Cast Size
1
Genre
comedy,
drama

On the eve of her new birthday, a birthday that would make her older than her big brother she lost, she reminisces, comparing him to the horny coquis that sing in the night.

On the eve of her new birthday, a birthday that would make her older than her big brother she lost, she reminisces, comparing him to the horny coquis that sing in the night.

ÁNGEL Y CHUPI (The Reinvented Queer Tale of the Puerto Rican Chupacabra)

by Daniela Gonzalez y Perez

8
Cast Size
3
Genre
adventure,
dark comedy,
drama,
fable/folktale,
faith-based,
fantasy,
horror,
tragedy

The tortured tale of two reincarnated spirits that find themselves face to face in their newest forms, one as a quirky Puerto Rican angel and the other as a repulsive although charming Chupacabra, after being separated for centuries. A love triangle ensues when a mystery woman appears, threatening the balance of their worlds, as they grapple with obsession, forgiveness, grief, and the afterlife as they’re not...

The tortured tale of two reincarnated spirits that find themselves face to face in their newest forms, one as a quirky Puerto Rican angel and the other as a repulsive although charming Chupacabra, after being separated for centuries. A love triangle ensues when a mystery woman appears, threatening the balance of their worlds, as they grapple with obsession, forgiveness, grief, and the afterlife as they’re not only forced to face each other, but themselves.

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