Guadalís Del Carmen

Guadalís Del Carmen

Currently based in NYC, Guadalís Del Carmen was born and raised in Chicago. She's an Ars Nova Resident Artist and a Dramatist Guild member, and a winner of the 2020 Steinberg Playwright Award. Her plays include Bees and Honey (The Kilroys List 2019), Not For Sale (UrbanTheater Commission/World Premier 2018, Jeff Award Nominee for Best New Play 2019), My Father's Keeper (Steppenwolf Theater's The...
Currently based in NYC, Guadalís Del Carmen was born and raised in Chicago. She's an Ars Nova Resident Artist and a Dramatist Guild member, and a winner of the 2020 Steinberg Playwright Award. Her plays include Bees and Honey (The Kilroys List 2019), Not For Sale (UrbanTheater Commission/World Premier 2018, Jeff Award Nominee for Best New Play 2019), My Father's Keeper (Steppenwolf Theater's The Mix List 2018, The Kilroys Honorable Mention 2019), Daughters of the Rebellion previously titled Tolstoy's Daughters (Montclair State University New Works Initiative 2018-2019, The Kilroys Honorable Mention 2017, 50 Playwrights Project Best Unproduced Latin@ Plays 2017), A Shero's Journey (Yale Theater Magazine Issue 49, Parsnip Ship Plays Season 4), Blowout (Aguijón Theater, 2013).

Guadalís has been part of the One Minute Play Festival in Chicago and multiple times in NYC and is a Seattle Public Theatre’s 2017 Emerald Prize nominee. She’s an artistic associate of Black Lives Black Words, through which she has written two of her ten minute plays, Blue Wall of Silence and Racial Science. Guadalís is currently Co-Artistic Director of the Latinx Playwrights Circle.

Plays

  • Ruby Superior and Traci Trixxx Do D.C. by Guadalís Del Carmen
    Recommendations: 1
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    Cast: 
    3
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    Genre: drama, political
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    Keyword: Black Latinx, Latinx + 5 more
    Genre: drama, political
    Keyword: Black Latinx, Latinx, afro-latinx, anti-black racism, American society and politics, Latinx politics, feminism
    It’s 2024 and the presidential election is a few months away. With polls rising in her favor, Senator Roberts makes her way through middle America promoting the most progressive campaign ever seen. She’s determined to get this country back on track and won’t let anything or anyone stop her, that is until Mariela Johnson, an old colleague from her former life as an adult film star comes to remind her of her past...
    It’s 2024 and the presidential election is a few months away. With polls rising in her favor, Senator Roberts makes her way through middle America promoting the most progressive campaign ever seen. She’s determined to get this country back on track and won’t let anything or anyone stop her, that is until Mariela Johnson, an old colleague from her former life as an adult film star comes to remind her of her past transgressions. Both go head to head, Roberts fighting for the integrity of her campaign, while Johnson seeks to set the record straight.
  • My Father's Keeper by Guadalís Del Carmen
    Recommendations: 4
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    Cast: 
    7
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    Genre: drama
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    Keyword: family, death + 6 more
    Genre: drama
    Keyword: family, death, secrets, LGBTQ, Latinx, honor, Afro-Caribbean, Afro-Latino
    Tirsio Armando Gonzalez and his wife Juana are the pillars of their community, in Dominican Republic and in their new home in Chicago. But Tirsio’s sudden death causes family secrets to come to light. Dealing with the their father’s truth and double life, Mondo and Sofía must learn to lean on each other like never before while...
    Tirsio Armando Gonzalez and his wife Juana are the pillars of their community, in Dominican Republic and in their new home in Chicago. But Tirsio’s sudden death causes family secrets to come to light. Dealing with the their father’s truth and double life, Mondo and Sofía must learn to lean on each other like never before while figuring out how to best honor their father. The Gonzalez family must define what secrets are worth keeping and which ones aren’t worth the trouble.
  • Not For Sale by Guadalís Del Carmen
    Recommendations: 1
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    Cast: 
    7
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    Genre: drama, political
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    Keyword: gentrification, puerto rican + 4 more
    Genre: drama, political
    Keyword: gentrification, puerto rican, Chicago, Latinx, young activists, neighborhood
    With the Puerto Rican Festival months away, Humboldt Park prepares for the big event. With new neighbors looking to make changes, those that have lived in the community have to work together to either brace for change or let go of the legacies laid out by those that are long gone. A story about community, family, and politics, the question persists, who gets to lay claims to a neighborhood?
  • A Shero's Journey or What Anacaona and Yemayá Taught Me... by Guadalís Del Carmen
    Recommendations: 5
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    Cast: 
    5–7
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    Genre: adventure, drama + 3 more
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    Keyword: Afro-Latino, Afrolatina + 5 more
    Genre: adventure, drama, experimental, fable/folktale, movement/physical
    Keyword: Afro-Latino, Afrolatina, Afro-Caribbean, family, ancestors, heroine's journey, African Diaspora
    Zoila has had her entire life planned and laid out for her by her family, and society. She finds herself at a crossroads when she falls in love with a friend from the past. When tragedy hits, she decides to risk it all. Leaving everything behind, she meets two ancestral figures and together they embark on a journey that makes Zoila question everything she was ever taught.
  • Daughters of the Rebellion (formerly titled Tolstoy's Daughters) by Guadalís Del Carmen
    Recommendations: 1
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    Cast: 
    9–10
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    Genre: drama, political
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    Keyword: family, country + 4 more
    Genre: drama, political
    Keyword: family, country, Politics, uprising, racism, Police abuse
    Even though Katya and Fanya are sisters raised in the same rich and aristocratic home, their experiences are worlds apart. With their country on the cusp of a revolution, the sisters take separate paths to fight for their country’s future. Having the odds against them, both make drastic choices that will forever change their relationship. With one sister sacrificing her life and the other sacrificing her...
    Even though Katya and Fanya are sisters raised in the same rich and aristocratic home, their experiences are worlds apart. With their country on the cusp of a revolution, the sisters take separate paths to fight for their country’s future. Having the odds against them, both make drastic choices that will forever change their relationship. With one sister sacrificing her life and the other sacrificing her livelihood, the fate of their beloved country ultimately lays in their hands.
  • Blowout by Guadalís Del Carmen
    Recommendations: 1
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    Cast: 
    9–11
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    Genre: comedy, translation
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    Keyword: gentrification, chosen family + 6 more
    Genre: comedy, translation
    Keyword: gentrification, chosen family, domestic violence, aging, LGBTQ, Latinx, Spanish, English
    Blowout follows a period of several days in the life of the staff –o mejor dicho, la familia – at Gloria’s Jair an Maykop, a beauty salon in the gentrifying Chicago neighborhood of West Town. This telenovela style play explores themes of entrepreneurship, chosen families, how neighbors and cultures are created and transformed, steadfast love and support in the face of a rapidly changing world.
  • The D Line by Guadalís Del Carmen
    Cast: 
    3
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    Genre: dark comedy
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    Keyword: Latinx, coping with tragedy
    Genre: dark comedy
    Keyword: Latinx, coping with tragedy
    The train sucks, and this one is eternally delayed. Michael is ready to propose to his girlfriend, but is he ready for her answer? Life isn't always what it seems, and neither is death. Love and train delays...a match made in MTA limbo.
  • Sucking On Cucumbers by Guadalís Del Carmen
    Recommendations: 8
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    Cast: 
    4
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    Genre: comedy
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    Keyword: Sex, sexuality + 2 more
    Genre: comedy
    Keyword: Sex, sexuality, women, feminism
    Four women walk into a sex addicts meeting...
  • Racial Science by Guadalís Del Carmen
    Recommendations: 1
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    Cast: 
    3
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    Genre: drama, satire + 1 more
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    Keyword: Race, science + 1 more
    Genre: drama, satire, science fiction
    Keyword: Race, science, blurred racial lines
    How scientific and quantifiable is race? Does everyone fit neatly in one box? Two scientists try to achieve the impossible and debate where the racially ambiguous fit.
  • Blue Wall of Silence by Guadalís Del Carmen
    Cast: 
    4
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    Genre: drama, political + 1 more
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    Keyword: police brutality, black lives + 1 more
    Genre: drama, political, tragedy
    Keyword: police brutality, black lives, Black-Latino
    Blue Wall of Silence tackles the question, can you be black while blue? When police officer Tyrell Baez has to come clean about the facts of a tragedy, his loyalty to his badge is questioned.