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.

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...

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.

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Scripts

The Siblings Play

by Ren Dara Santiago

8
Cast Size
5
Genre
drama,
fantasy,
horror,
tragedy

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...

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.

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Something in the Balete Tree

by Ren Dara Santiago

8
Cast Size
6—10
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.

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

2
Cast Size
3—5
Genre
drama,
fantasy,
radio drama

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.

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

1
Cast Size
2
Genre
drama,
movement/physical,
mystery/thriller,
science fiction,
tragedy

Short. Bony and Lacy live in two different times. One is dreaming about the other. Both are dreaming of salvation.

Short. Bony and Lacy live in two different times. One is dreaming about the other. Both are dreaming of salvation.