Noemi de la Puente

Noemi de la Puente

Plays: GENERIC HISPANIC, finalist MultiStages New Works contest 2012, produced at thePuerto Rican Traveling Theatre - PRTT; MANUEL VERSUS THE STATUE OF LIBERTY (full length musical with composer David Davila, winner– 2014 NYMF Developmental Reading Series Award, winner 2015 NYMF Special Award for Social Relevance and Impact, nominated for Best Musical, finalist O’Neill National Music Theatre Conference, 2016);...
Plays: GENERIC HISPANIC, finalist MultiStages New Works contest 2012, produced at thePuerto Rican Traveling Theatre - PRTT; MANUEL VERSUS THE STATUE OF LIBERTY (full length musical with composer David Davila, winner– 2014 NYMF Developmental Reading Series Award, winner 2015 NYMF Special Award for Social Relevance and Impact, nominated for Best Musical, finalist O’Neill National Music Theatre Conference, 2016);THE REVENGE OF SUICIDE JACK (in development at the Dramatic Question Theatre - DQT); LIGHTNING STRIKES TWICE (10 min. musical with composer Jaime Lozano - Huron Club,Soho PlayhouseNew York, Microteatro-SEA, Caracas Venezuela); solo show FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH (the Carolinian Shakespeare Festival, PRTT, DQT at Theatre 3); member of the Professional Playwrights Unit at PRTT, 2004 – 2012; founding member of DQT, a collective of playwrights that develop multicultural works, and challenge the traditional race/gender barrier of professional playwriting as practiced in America today. Other awards: Yip Harburg Foundation grant, Anna Sosenko Assist Trust, HOLA Award for Outstanding Achievement in Ensemble Acting (acting work - that’s another story!).

Noemi received her MFA in Theatre Arts from the University of Iowa (Patricia Roberts Harris
Scholarship), MSE Princeton University, and BSE Caltech. Noemi is a member of the
Dramatists Guild. “Pura vida” to her husband Ron! www.Noemidlp.com, @noemidlp .

Plays

  • Las Posadas - One Small Piece by Noemi de la Puente
    Recommendations: 1
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    Cast: 
    2
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    Genre: comedy
    Genre: comedy
    Abuelita and Luz resolve their different takes on religion and tradition over tamales. A very short play.
  • Only In America by Noemi de la Puente
    Recommendations: 2
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    Cast: 
    3
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    Genre: comedy
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    Keyword: women, representation + 3 more
    Genre: comedy
    Keyword: women, representation, comedy, Indian (South Asian) women, Mexican American Women
    Two successful women (Indian-American and Mexican American) debate who should get to represent whom on film. Set in a diner in Chicago.
  • A Teeny Christmas Carol Prequel by Noemi de la Puente
    Recommendations: 1
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    Cast: 
    3
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    Genre: comedy, holiday + 2 more
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    Keyword: christmas, White House + 4 more
    Genre: comedy, holiday, parody/spoof, political
    Keyword: christmas, White House, Congress, Senate, American politics, Dickens A Christmas Carol
    The Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Future decide to go big or go home. Going "big" means the White House, Congress and the Senate.
  • A New New Year's Eve by Noemi de la Puente
    Recommendations: 1
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    Cast: 
    2
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    Genre: holiday, young audiences
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    Keyword: pandemic, new year's eve + 3 more
    Genre: holiday, young audiences
    Keyword: pandemic, new year's eve, loneliness, mother, Daughter
    It's March and Papa isn't home yet from deployment. Mama is sad and Sarita her daughter cheers her up with Auld Lange Syne and a new New Year's Eve to start over. After all, time is arbitrary.
  • Count by Twos by Noemi de la Puente
    Recommendations: 3
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    Cast: 
    3
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    Genre: drama, political
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    Keyword: nonbinary, math + 3 more
    Genre: drama, political
    Keyword: nonbinary, math, teachers, gender identity, conflict of faith
    A nonbinary math teacher decides to stop teaching their high school students to the test and start teaching to the ultimate test: life. The president of the school board is not pleased with the results. Set in a small town in North Carolina in 2016.
  • Manuel vs. the Statue of Liberty by Noemi de la Puente
    Recommendations: 2
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    Cast: 
    13–30
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    Genre: comedy, musical
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    Keyword: musical, illegal immigration + 3 more
    Genre: comedy, musical
    Keyword: musical, illegal immigration, cultural diversity, Latino, Latinx
    A musical comedy about illegal immigration - Book and Lyrics by Noemi de la Puente, Music and Lyrics by David Davlia.
    The BOXING Act (Basic Omnibus Xenophobic Immigration Neutralization Guarantee Act) has streamlined the immigration process into a boxing ring, where the undocumented immigrants must fight the Statue of Liberty. Manuel, a DREAMER, applies to college, unleashing a paper trail that leads to...
    A musical comedy about illegal immigration - Book and Lyrics by Noemi de la Puente, Music and Lyrics by David Davlia.
    The BOXING Act (Basic Omnibus Xenophobic Immigration Neutralization Guarantee Act) has streamlined the immigration process into a boxing ring, where the undocumented immigrants must fight the Statue of Liberty. Manuel, a DREAMER, applies to college, unleashing a paper trail that leads to his doorstep, and violates everything his mother ever taught him about how not to get deported. The Statue chases the undocumented Manuel all over New York City, and eventually Manuel decides he has nothing left to lose, and enters the ring with the Statue. By then, she has a soft spot in her heart for this Classics nerd, and that becomes her undoing. But it’s not until they both are forced to flee to the Canadian border that they join forces. The Latin/Pop/Rock/Rap influenced score brings together a diverse cast of characters. Diversity is essential to the comedy: the persecuted and the persecutors are not always who you think they are.
  • Lightning Strikes Twice by Noemi de la Puente
    Recommendations: 1
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    Cast: 
    2
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    Genre: comedy, musical
    Genre: comedy, musical
    Co-written with composer Jaime Lozano. A short, approximately 10 minute musical (three songs). An older woman decides to go on a date after 20+ years - she was married and then widowed. Then she chickens out. Then her daughter pushes her to go for it.

    Casting: two women, one older (40+), one younger (teenage - early 20s), mother and daughter.

    Only first song is uploaded here.
  • The Pet Play by Noemi de la Puente
    Recommendations: 4
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    Cast: 
    4–11
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    Genre: comedy, romantic comedy
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    Keyword: dogs, cats + 3 more
    Genre: comedy, romantic comedy
    Keyword: dogs, cats, cat lovers, dog lovers, puppets
    Taylor loves Jennifer and Jennifer loves Taylor. Unfortunately Jennifer's cat hates Taylor, and Taylor's dog loves Jennifer more than he does Taylor. How are these four beings going to make a relationship work? A comedy about obsessive pet lovers, and the search for unconditional love.

    Note about casting: the puppeteers can play all the supporting roles, or the supporting roles can be...
    Taylor loves Jennifer and Jennifer loves Taylor. Unfortunately Jennifer's cat hates Taylor, and Taylor's dog loves Jennifer more than he does Taylor. How are these four beings going to make a relationship work? A comedy about obsessive pet lovers, and the search for unconditional love.

    Note about casting: the puppeteers can play all the supporting roles, or the supporting roles can be distributed to other performers (up to 9).

  • Not Like Us by Noemi de la Puente
    Recommendations: 1
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    Cast: 
    2
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    Genre: comedy, political
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    Keyword: feminist, latina
    Genre: comedy, political
    Keyword: feminist, latina
    Co-written with Desi Moreno-Penson, this 10 minute play features two educated, snooty Latinas (Cosita Una and Cosita Dos), who are interviewing women for a position on their team of intersectional feminists planning a historic demonstration. They find fault with everyone they interview. Intersectionality is harder than they anticipated. Over the top comedic style, infused with feminist commentary. The actresses...
    Co-written with Desi Moreno-Penson, this 10 minute play features two educated, snooty Latinas (Cosita Una and Cosita Dos), who are interviewing women for a position on their team of intersectional feminists planning a historic demonstration. They find fault with everyone they interview. Intersectionality is harder than they anticipated. Over the top comedic style, infused with feminist commentary. The actresses play the Interviewers and the interviewees (Harriet Tubman, Kellyanne Conway, and Justice Sonia Sotomayor).
  • Generic Hispanic by Noemi de la Puente
    Recommendations: 1
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    Cast: 
    10–29
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    Genre: comedy, satire
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    Keyword: Latino, Latinx + 3 more
    Genre: comedy, satire
    Keyword: Latino, Latinx, Advertising, health, ensemble
    Maribel, a Latina advertising genius has the Midas Touch - every product she works on ends up a best seller. Against her cardiologist husband's wishes, she works on a campaign advertising vitamin enriched potato chips to Latinos. She hoodwinks her husband into endorsing the chips (which he hates), and turns his endorsement into an award winning commercial. He sues her in return. Each scene is punctuated by...
    Maribel, a Latina advertising genius has the Midas Touch - every product she works on ends up a best seller. Against her cardiologist husband's wishes, she works on a campaign advertising vitamin enriched potato chips to Latinos. She hoodwinks her husband into endorsing the chips (which he hates), and turns his endorsement into an award winning commercial. He sues her in return. Each scene is punctuated by ridiculous newscasts, framing the action with real and invented advertising news and statistics. Eventually Maribel learns the difference between selling and selling out. But it is a difficult lesson. A note on casting: there are 19 newscasts in the play, and the roles of the newscasters can be either assigned to the principal cast members, or to one person, or to a variety of people. The newscaster roles are not gender specific, nor are they race specific. The only requirement is that the performer be good at comedy. So this is an opportunity to give roles to performers that are not binary in gender, and performers of color who are not specified in the script.