linda maria girón

linda maria girón

linda maria girón (they/elle) is a queer, guate-americane playwright, actor and visual artist. Their work takes form in dramatic writing and acting for the American stage, visual art and drag, poetry and music. Their plays include: AMÉMONOS//LET US LOVE EACH OTHER (commissioned in residence with Crowded Fire Theater's R&D Lab), MEMORIA DEL SILENCIO EN EL PAÍS DE LA ETERNA PRIMAVERA (Mission Cultural...
linda maria girón (they/elle) is a queer, guate-americane playwright, actor and visual artist. Their work takes form in dramatic writing and acting for the American stage, visual art and drag, poetry and music. Their plays include: AMÉMONOS//LET US LOVE EACH OTHER (commissioned in residence with Crowded Fire Theater's R&D Lab), MEMORIA DEL SILENCIO EN EL PAÍS DE LA ETERNA PRIMAVERA (Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts), WHITE IRIS (Pianofight ShortLived VI) and GRITERÍA Y LUZ! Devised collaborations include: DECOLONIZE YOUR SEX LIFE (Cutting Ball Theater, actor/writer), PORT STORIES (The Peripatetic Players/Idiot String, actor/writer) and 3GT INVESTIGATES: BIRTH RIGHTS (3GirlsTheatre, co-writer).

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Plays

  • amémonos // let us love each other by linda maria girón
    Recommendations: 2
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    Cast: 
    4–5
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    Genre: experimental, fable/folktale + 2 more
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    Keyword: intergenerational healing, grandmother/grandchild relationship + 4 more
    Genre: experimental, fable/folktale, mystery/thriller, verse
    Keyword: intergenerational healing, grandmother/grandchild relationship, catholic and queer, Latinx family, climate crisis, environmental racism
    Untimely. Uncertain. Unrequited. Unemployed. When newly discarded graduate Karina Inés makes an inconvenient pilgrimage back home, Kari is surprised to find Abuela Eulalia exactly as she was six years prior. Trapped between languages, time and house keys, Kari and Eulalia are confronted with a choice; reckon with ghost of a secret unrequited or lose each other in the haze of an uncertain future.
  • Memoria del silencio en el país de la eterna primavera // Memory of silence in the land of eternal spring by linda maria girón
    Recommendations: 1
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    Cast: 
    8–10
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    Genre: adventure, docudrama/historic + 2 more
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    Keyword: Guatemala, Guatemalan civil war + 6 more
    Genre: adventure, docudrama/historic, drama, fable/folktale
    Keyword: Guatemala, Guatemalan civil war, migration, Alzheimer's Disease, PTSD, mental illness, aging, Central America
    Set in the land of eternal spring, in a town where the ghosts sing with the living, roses grow larger than cattle and nearby villages have gone missing; young Mari's quest to find her father's ghost becomes a desperate fight to restore her aunt's fading memory. Together, la familia Noguera face the boundaries of love when tested by the realities of life— aging, war and illness.
  • white iris by linda maria girón
    Recommendations: 1
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    Cast: 
    3–4
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    Genre: comedy, political + 1 more
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    Keyword: Latinx, poetry + 7 more
    Genre: comedy, political, verse
    Keyword: Latinx, poetry, gringa, whiteness, privilege, identity, race politics, White Fragility, diversity
    Iris is proud to be Latinx. She also dates a lot of white folx. What's the big deal, right? But with a mom who's Down with La Raza and a grandma who dreams of blue eyed babies; Iris' love life becomes a political battleground. With help from her poetry and a bag of shrooms, Iris learns to understand herself, her roots and path to love.
  • GRITERÍA Y LUZ // howls and light by linda maria girón
    Recommendations: 1
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    Cast: 
    3
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    Genre: fable/folktale, faith-based + 2 more
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    Keyword: Virgin Mary, Semana Santa + 8 more
    Genre: fable/folktale, faith-based, holiday, zoom
    Keyword: Virgin Mary, Semana Santa, Latinx, Catholic, Nicaragua, family, long distance, pandemic, COVID 19, border
    The 7th of December is a magical day for Luz and abuela Marylin. But with tightening border restrictions, incoming college pressures and now a global pandemic, their yearly connections slow to a halt. Until one night, La Virgen Maria makes herself known...