Ian Robles

Blackouts. Election-year chaos. Postpartum rage. When Nico returns from New York to his grandmother’s home in Puerto Rico to commemorate his grandfather’s death, a family gathering quickly unravels under the weight of a failing power grid and deeper, unresolved tensions. As political arguments erupt between generations and the strain of new parenthood ignite a series of emotional confrontations, the outages begin to mirror something more unsettling: MAMA’s slipping grip on reality, blurring the line between memory and presence. In a house where the lights won’t stay on, no one is spared from the darkness closing in.

Women are gone for good. The last humans aren’t allowed to go outdoors for their own sanity. Meanwhile, Polo and Gonzo stand at the very edge of the world fantasizing about love and ways to live their best life.

It’s 1898, the Americans have stormed the Southern coast of Puerto Rico and Lío, a young local fisherman, helps a US marine that was left behind by his troop. As they both struggle to communicate, time starts to bend and Lío suddenly finds himself trapped inside a cyclical nightmare of colonial exploitation. A bilingual drama about invasion and a trampled Puerto Rican identity.

A hurricane’s coming, but at Edward & Sons Hardware and Plumbing the shelves are bare, the gringo debt collectors are calling and the owner’s getting high in the back room. An improvised opera about the demise of the very last family-owned hardware store in Puerto Rico. (It's also a play about United States being an invasive predatory lender towards Puerto Rico.)

An immortal family-owned theatre company, an annoying chorus of singing skulls, and Antigone, who’s tired of retelling her story over and over again. The moment she goes on stage, she realizes she and her family have been stuck in the precise moments of their deaths since--forever. A dramedy about family and reconciliation.

Two siblings visit the small town they were raised in to attend the funeral of who became their legal guardian in their youth. In this experimental thriller about family history, a surreal journey into their memories reveals the hidden truths about the cursed neighborhood they grew up in and the mystery of their mother’s disappearance.

Two gay men living among garbage cans dream of being the best street-performers in the city, without realizing they'll have to fight against a society in which they are invisible. A one-act play (written in Spanish) that exposes sexuality, love and misery in a raw manner.