Cristina Florencia Castro

Cristina Florencia Castro

Cristina Castro is a playwright/performer who hails from San Antonio, Texas and has been based in Minneapolis since 2007. Her recent honors include the Silver Award in Playwriting from the National YoungArts Foundation in Miami, Fl. In 2011, she was selected as a Summer Intensive Apprentice with the LAByrinth Theater Company in New York City where such illustrious Company Members as playwright Raul Castillo,...
Cristina Castro is a playwright/performer who hails from San Antonio, Texas and has been based in Minneapolis since 2007. Her recent honors include the Silver Award in Playwriting from the National YoungArts Foundation in Miami, Fl. In 2011, she was selected as a Summer Intensive Apprentice with the LAByrinth Theater Company in New York City where such illustrious Company Members as playwright Raul Castillo, Kristina Poe, and former Artistic Director John Ortiz mentored her. While living abroad in the United Kingdom she studied with London International School of the Performing Arts founder Thomas Prattki, Royal Shakespeare Company co-founder John Barton, and Glynn McDonald at Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre. As a performer she has acted in the Twin Cities with theaters such as Ten Thousand Things (The Winter's Tale, Comedy of Errors) Penumbra Theater (For Colored Girls...), Jungle Theater (Anna in the Tropics), Delako Arts (The Shape of Things), Market Garden Theater (Three Days of Rain), Mixed Blood (The House of Spirits), Park Square (August: Osage County), and more. Cristina was a 2015-2016 & 2020-2021 Jerome Many Voices Fellow at The Playwrights' Center and is a 2011 alumna of the University of Minnesota/Guthrie Theater B.F.A. Actor Training Program.

Cristina is a Teaching Artist with Upstream Arts, a nonprofit that uses the power of the creative arts to activate and amplify the voice and choice of individuals with disabilities. She is also a member of The Playwrights' Center Accessibilty Committe and staff support for Ten Thousand Things theatre.

Cristina is currently working towards her Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from Augsburg University.

Plays

  • Masha by Cristina Florencia Castro
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    Genre: drama, experimental + 1 more
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    Keyword: Latinx, drama + 3 more
    Genre: drama, experimental, movement/physical
    Keyword: Latinx, drama, Chekhov, abuse in theatre, abuse of power
    As successful actress Erica Puente gets closer and closer to reaching her dreams, an unexpected visitor from her past sends her spinning back to her theatre beginnings to face a dark truth of her adolescence. Time-sliding between teenager and adult, MASHA explores the dangers of the theatre in young hands, power dynamics of high school theater, and the repercussions of speaking up or choosing to stay silent.
  • The Very Last Wishes of Grandpa Joe or Mia & Hector Go Sightseeing by Cristina Florencia Castro
    Recommendations: 2
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    Genre: adventure, comedy + 3 more
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    Keyword: identity, loss + 5 more
    Genre: adventure, comedy, experimental, radio drama, tragedy
    Keyword: identity, loss, disability, people of color, audio play, blind/low vision, Latinx
    A successful, acclaimed pop-up book artist travels to Ireland on a mission with her best friend -- per his late grandfather's final request -- as she secretly, silently grapples with losing her vision.
  • How The Colds Were Razed (As Told by Gorilla Girl) by Cristina Florencia Castro
    Recommendations: 2
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    Genre: dark comedy, drama + 1 more
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    Keyword: family, mixed race + 5 more
    Genre: dark comedy, drama, movement/physical
    Keyword: family, mixed race, violence, love, Gorilla Girl, candles, latina
    In the Cold family, no one dies by natural means. Members name their DEATH DAY - an event in which family bids and fights for the right to kill the "Honored One". Six generations of this macabre tradition culminate in the DEATH DAY of Richard "Solo" Cold, who is to give his life to one of only three remaining family members: The children of his deceased sisters - FOURTH, WRENCH, and MATTER...
    In the Cold family, no one dies by natural means. Members name their DEATH DAY - an event in which family bids and fights for the right to kill the "Honored One". Six generations of this macabre tradition culminate in the DEATH DAY of Richard "Solo" Cold, who is to give his life to one of only three remaining family members: The children of his deceased sisters - FOURTH, WRENCH, and MATTER. A dark comedy set in a candlelit world of violence and secrets, Solo's DEATH DAY is witnessed by his dog, GORILLA GIRL. A story about that inescapable, undefinable, and completely terrible tie between people: family.