Ren Dara Santiago

Ren Dara Santiago

Ren Dara Santiago is a Big Sister, Fila-Rican playwright from Yonkers and Harlem. Plays: INSIDE the Gods play, The Siblings Play, Something in the Balete Tree, SUBLIMINAL. Development: Cherry Lane Theatre, Clubbed Thumb, Gingold Theatrical Group, Labyrinth Theater, The Lark, MCC, Middle Voice, Ojai Playwrights Conference, Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, Rising Phoenix Rep, SPACE on Ryder Farm, TOW Foundation...
Ren Dara Santiago is a Big Sister, Fila-Rican playwright from Yonkers and Harlem. Plays: INSIDE the Gods play, The Siblings Play, Something in the Balete Tree, SUBLIMINAL. Development: Cherry Lane Theatre, Clubbed Thumb, Gingold Theatrical Group, Labyrinth Theater, The Lark, MCC, Middle Voice, Ojai Playwrights Conference, Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, Rising Phoenix Rep, SPACE on Ryder Farm, TOW Foundation.

Teaching: Carnegie Mellon, The Eugene O’Neill Theater Center, Williams College University, The Young Women’s Leadership School. Community: The Lark, Middle Voice @Rattlestick, Rising Phoenix Rep. 2019 Accolades: MCC Alumni Award, a Playwright’s Week winner at The Lark, a Finalist for the National Playwrights Conference, and the inaugural recipient of Rising Phoenix Rep’s Cornelia Street American Playwriting Award, recognizing an emerging playwright of exceptional work ethic, character, and talent.

Plays

  • The Siblings Play by Ren Dara Santiago
    Recommendations: 8
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    Cast: 
    5
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    Genre: drama, fantasy + 2 more
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    Keyword: Multiracial, dysfunction + 5 more
    Genre: drama, fantasy, horror, tragedy
    Keyword: Multiracial, dysfunction, addiction, trauma, parenthood, siblings, love
    For Mars, Leon and Marie what defines family is survival. It’s something they learned from their parents and finessed on the block. These kids grew up knowing how to look solid when life fills you with holes. When one parent starts to creep back in to one of their lives, the holes start to bleed. Out come vengeful spirits and one of the siblings can’t keep up. Living with these kids means being haunted by people you live with.
  • Something in the Balete Tree by Ren Dara Santiago
    Recommendations: 8
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    Cast: 
    6–10
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    Genre: adventure, dark comedy + 9 more
    Genre: adventure, dark comedy, drama, fable/folktale, fantasy, horror, immersive, movement/physical, mystery/thriller, political, tragedy
    A political-fantasy about two Filipinas at the center of a rebellion in Manila, Philippines. This is a play about revolutions. This is a play about documentary. This is a play about survivors. And what it takes to become a God.
  • LOVE and ANIMATION by Ren Dara Santiago
    Recommendations: 2
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    Cast: 
    3–5
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    Genre: drama, fantasy + 1 more
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    Keyword: bittersweet love story
    Genre: drama, fantasy, radio drama
    Keyword: bittersweet love story
    This is the story of a man and a statue in a city park, under the shade of a tree by the playground. Short; Radio.
  • Big World by Ren Dara Santiago
    Recommendations: 1
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    Cast: 
    2
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    Genre: drama, movement/physical + 3 more
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    Keyword: Schizophrenia, mental illness + 3 more
    Genre: drama, movement/physical, mystery/thriller, science fiction, tragedy
    Keyword: Schizophrenia, mental illness, neglect, parental love, gay and trans theatre
    Short. Bony and Lacy live in two different times. One is dreaming about the other. Both are dreaming of salvation.