Oscar A. L. Cabrera

Oscar A. L. Cabrera

Oscar A. L. Cabrera is a New York based Actor/playwright born of Texas. His plays include Through Andrew's Eyes (WAGG Hudson Warehouset, INTAR's New Works Lab, Rising Circle, Black and Latino Playwrights Conference 2016), Maybe You Should Just (EWG Public Theater), ReSpec(Spectrum Theater Ensemble), Pennies and Bolts (Labyrinth Theater Mofo Hat Festival), as well as over ten original ten minutes plays...
Oscar A. L. Cabrera is a New York based Actor/playwright born of Texas. His plays include Through Andrew's Eyes (WAGG Hudson Warehouset, INTAR's New Works Lab, Rising Circle, Black and Latino Playwrights Conference 2016), Maybe You Should Just (EWG Public Theater), ReSpec(Spectrum Theater Ensemble), Pennies and Bolts (Labyrinth Theater Mofo Hat Festival), as well as over ten original ten minutes plays through The Flea Theater Serials and multiple years of One-Minute-Play-Festival. In 2020, he led the Economic Justice Committee for accountability of The Flea Theater's treatment of artists. He is currently the Co-Artistic Director and the Co-Founder of the Latinx Playwrights Circle, an organization with the blunt aim of increasing Latinx representation across all fields in New York Theater. He leads the Intensive Mentorship, a program he originated with Guadalís Del Carmen, partnering peers with mentors in the field and supports numerous New Play Development across the organization.

Plays

  • Through Andrew's Eyes by Oscar A. L. Cabrera
    Recommendations: 4
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    Cast: 
    5
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    Genre: comedy, drama + 3 more
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    Keyword: autism, health care + 1 more
    Genre: comedy, drama, experimental, movement/physical, tragedy
    Keyword: autism, health care, disability
    Synopsis: Andrew is a 22 year old boy diagnosed with Autism and Diabetes. The Person he would have become lives inside him, wanting to be heard. Meanwhile, Andrew’s family struggles to move forward, feeling limited and trapped by more things than one. When Andrew’s Brother returns from college for the holidays, Person begins to speak his mind, but can Andrew be truly understood? Heartwarming and poignant,...
    Synopsis: Andrew is a 22 year old boy diagnosed with Autism and Diabetes. The Person he would have become lives inside him, wanting to be heard. Meanwhile, Andrew’s family struggles to move forward, feeling limited and trapped by more things than one. When Andrew’s Brother returns from college for the holidays, Person begins to speak his mind, but can Andrew be truly understood? Heartwarming and poignant, Through Andrew’s Eyes is a story about how people transcend their differences to find common ground, love, and a shared sense of humanity.
  • Maybe You Should Just by Oscar A. L. Cabrera
    Recommendations: 2
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    Cast: 
    4
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    Genre: drama, political + 1 more
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    Keyword: assimilation, mixed + 5 more
    Genre: drama, political, tragedy
    Keyword: assimilation, mixed, Latinx, NYC, Harlem, Texas, small town America
    Mateo’s dreams are haunted by a long stretch of dirt road behind the hospital of his Texas hometown. Even with the disguise of his New York apartment and liberal girlfriend, he can’t run from the feeling of never truly fitting in. When his mother comes to meet his new life, what he discovers may be the key to his salvation from his family…or his damnation.
  • Bonnet Blues by Oscar A. L. Cabrera
    Recommendations: 5
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    Cast: 
    5
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    Genre: adventure, drama
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    Keyword: Alzheimer's Disease
    Genre: adventure, drama
    Keyword: Alzheimer's Disease
    Horencia is a 60 year old woman who befriends a neighborhood kid who breaks her window with a baseball. But something isn't quite right with this young girl. What starts as a simple magic trick... gives her reason to question everything about what she knows. And as Hortencia struggles with what is real or not, they are tested against the clock to fix what is broken before it stays the same forever.
  • Blue Marble by Oscar A. L. Cabrera
    Recommendations: 2
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    Cast: 
    2–3
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    Genre: comedy, fantasy + 1 more
    Genre: comedy, fantasy, musical
    254 miles above the planet, Dave a young boy-scientist, has built a robot on his lunch breaks. Through a fun game and a little song, the Robot shows Dave theirs more to being human than just being super smart.
  • Noir York City by Oscar A. L. Cabrera
    Recommendations: 2
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    Cast: 
    5
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    Genre: comedy, fantasy + 3 more
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    Keyword: noir
    Genre: comedy, fantasy, melodrama, mystery/thriller, satire
    Keyword: noir
    Lights up to a dimly lit office. A man stares out into the audience... And that's about all that goes right with this gumshoe noir detective tale. We follow Tom, Sam, and Gus, in a classic who done it.
  • Pennies and Bolts by Oscar A. L. Cabrera
    Recommendations: 2
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    Cast: 
    3
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    Genre: drama
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    Keyword: stroke, Therapy + 1 more
    Genre: drama
    Keyword: stroke, Therapy, family
    Sam is helping their Father, Gus, after his stroke. Sam's sacrifice to move back to her home town stirs up an issue they have been running since they lost their Mother. It takes an emotionally drained physical therapist, Anthony, to finally release this family's tension.