Edwin Sanchez

Eddie’s work includes La Bella Familia, Trafficking In Broken Hearts, I’ll Take Romance, Diosa, Unmerciful Good Fortune, Icarus, and Barefoot Boy With Shoes On. His work has been produced regionally throughout the United States as well as Brazil, Russia, and Switzerland.Among his awards are the Kennedy Center Fund for New American Plays (Clean), three New York Foundation for the Arts Playwriting/Screenwriting Fellowships, the Princess Grace Playwriting Fellowship, the Daryl Roth Creative Spirit Award, and the AT&T On Stage New Play Award. He is the winner of the 2025 National Latino Playwriting Award for his new play, Lottery Boy. He currently teaches playwriting at Wesleyan University. His novel, Diary of a Puerto Rican Demigod, is available through Amazon and is under option to become a...

Eddie’s work includes La Bella Familia, Trafficking In Broken Hearts, I’ll Take Romance, Diosa, Unmerciful Good Fortune, Icarus, and Barefoot Boy With Shoes On. His work has been produced regionally throughout the United States as well as Brazil, Russia, and Switzerland.Among his awards are the Kennedy Center Fund for New American Plays (Clean), three New York Foundation for the Arts Playwriting/Screenwriting Fellowships, the Princess Grace Playwriting Fellowship, the Daryl Roth Creative Spirit Award, and the AT&T On Stage New Play Award. He is the winner of the 2025 National Latino Playwriting Award for his new play, Lottery Boy. He currently teaches playwriting at Wesleyan University. His novel, Diary of a Puerto Rican Demigod, is available through Amazon and is under option to become a podcast series early next year. His plays are available and licensed through Broadway Play Publishing. His play Unmerciful Good Fortune will begin production this year under Rising Tide Entertainment with a cast including Rosario Dawson, Antonio Banderas and Susan Sarandon.

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Scripts

La Bella Familia

by Edwin Sanchez

Cast Size
6
Genre
dark comedy,
drama,
mystery/thriller

A Puerto Rican hit woman, her mentally challenged son, and a janitor who dreams of nothing more than being a father meet the neighbors from hell. Crass, rude and desperate, these neighbors are like everybody else, looking for a way to end their loneliness. These characters find out the hard way that family comes first.

A Puerto Rican hit woman, her mentally challenged son, and a janitor who dreams of nothing more than being a father meet the neighbors from hell. Crass, rude and desperate, these neighbors are like everybody else, looking for a way to end their loneliness. These characters find out the hard way that family comes first.

Icarus

by Edwin Sanchez

Cast Size
5
Genre
drama

An empty beach house settled between dunes and the roar of the sea … a perfect spot for swimming —⁠ though it’s the middle of March! A woman, her brother, and an eccentric dream catcher set up camp, but a masked stranger’s arrival complicates their fantastic plan to swim out to touch the sun. This poignant comedy of loneliness and escape reevaluates notions of beauty as five outcasts discover just how much they...

An empty beach house settled between dunes and the roar of the sea … a perfect spot for swimming —⁠ though it’s the middle of March! A woman, her brother, and an eccentric dream catcher set up camp, but a masked stranger’s arrival complicates their fantastic plan to swim out to touch the sun. This poignant comedy of loneliness and escape reevaluates notions of beauty as five outcasts discover just how much they’ll give —⁠ and give up —⁠ for love.

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Trafficking In Broken Hearts

by Edwin Sanchez

Cast Size
3
Genre
drama

When Papo, a tough-talking Puerto Rican hustler from the Bronx, meets Brian, a frightened young lawyer from the Midwest, Papo begins to glimpse the possibility of a romantic escape from his life on the streets. At the same time, Bobby, a 17-year-old runaway who has been repeatedly raped by his older brother, offers to take care of Papo and moves in with him in his fleabag hotel room. It is then when Papo...

When Papo, a tough-talking Puerto Rican hustler from the Bronx, meets Brian, a frightened young lawyer from the Midwest, Papo begins to glimpse the possibility of a romantic escape from his life on the streets. At the same time, Bobby, a 17-year-old runaway who has been repeatedly raped by his older brother, offers to take care of Papo and moves in with him in his fleabag hotel room. It is then when Papo suddenly finds his defenses melting and his heart torn in two directions. TRAFFICKING IN BROKEN HEARTS is a gritty, urban love story.

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Ernesto the Magnificent

by Edwin Sanchez

Cast Size
1
Genre
dark comedy

A young man rebels against his fire eating father by becoming a sword swallower

A young man rebels against his fire eating father by becoming a sword swallower

Jody's Mother

by Edwin Sanchez

Cast Size
1
Genre
drama

The mother of a pedophile must come to terms with the fact that she still loves him

The mother of a pedophile must come to terms with the fact that she still loves him

Destiny

by Edwin Sanchez

Cast Size
6
Genre
drama

A trans child tries to redefine hir place in a family coming apart at the seams due to the father's illness. As Destiny's mother rages at the cancer eating away at her husband she comes close to destroying her own children insisting that things must stay the same. No matter the cost.

A trans child tries to redefine hir place in a family coming apart at the seams due to the father's illness. As Destiny's mother rages at the cancer eating away at her husband she comes close to destroying her own children insisting that things must stay the same. No matter the cost.