Luz Lorenzana Twigg

Scripts

The Trouble With Paradise

by Luz Lorenzana Twigg

Synopsis

Employees in a coffee shop are overjoyed when they win their union majority. However, their plans are thwarted as a historic wildfire sweeps up the California coast and threatens to burn down everything they care about most. Set in idyllic Santa Barbara, the play takes a tender, charismatic look at the complex stratification of the service work and interrogates the myth of the service industry “family”.

Employees in a coffee shop are overjoyed when they win their union majority. However, their plans are thwarted as a historic wildfire sweeps up the California coast and threatens to burn down everything they care about most. Set in idyllic Santa Barbara, the play takes a tender, charismatic look at the complex stratification of the service work and interrogates the myth of the service industry “family”.

Electra

by Luz Lorenzana Twigg

Synopsis

Electra is devastated when her mother, a successful white feminist Senator & self-appointed leader of the #metoo movement, cancels her father, a human rights advocate, over allegations of cheating and sexual assault. Passionate and full of rage, Electra wrestles with the inheritance of her biracial identity as she plots to exact justice on her mother. An evisceration of cancel culture, this contemporary...

Electra is devastated when her mother, a successful white feminist Senator & self-appointed leader of the #metoo movement, cancels her father, a human rights advocate, over allegations of cheating and sexual assault. Passionate and full of rage, Electra wrestles with the inheritance of her biracial identity as she plots to exact justice on her mother. An evisceration of cancel culture, this contemporary adaptation of Sophocles’ masterpiece asks the question: what do you have left when the deed is done?

Platinum Record

by Luz Lorenzana Twigg

Synopsis

In sweaty Los Angeles, a young swanky pop musician of mixed Asian descent wins a prestigious award, shutting out a black hip-hop artist. Two young women of color - one black, the other hapa - duel over Twitter over whether a cultural sin was committed or not in a spirited examination of appropriation, expression, outrage, and allyship.

In sweaty Los Angeles, a young swanky pop musician of mixed Asian descent wins a prestigious award, shutting out a black hip-hop artist. Two young women of color - one black, the other hapa - duel over Twitter over whether a cultural sin was committed or not in a spirited examination of appropriation, expression, outrage, and allyship.

Nada

by Luz Lorenzana Twigg

Synopsis

A performance artist wants to be alone in the museum that is displaying her major retrospective. Unfortunately, the security guard can't let that happen.

A performance artist wants to be alone in the museum that is displaying her major retrospective. Unfortunately, the security guard can't let that happen.

The Love Eaters

by Luz Lorenzana Twigg

Synopsis

Two women work tirelessly in Office of Unrequited Love, where people send their unrequited feelings to be disposed of. Trapped in the corporate glamour of an office that cheerily demands unrelenting devotion and output, both women reckon with their own repressed, nagging need for satisfaction. Also, there is a lot of cake.

Two women work tirelessly in Office of Unrequited Love, where people send their unrequited feelings to be disposed of. Trapped in the corporate glamour of an office that cheerily demands unrelenting devotion and output, both women reckon with their own repressed, nagging need for satisfaction. Also, there is a lot of cake.

How To Slice Mangoes And Eat Them Too

by Luz Lorenzana Twigg

Synopsis

A young woman aches to feel full. Coping mechanisms include sushi, mangoes, and sex.

A young woman aches to feel full. Coping mechanisms include sushi, mangoes, and sex.

Whale Play

by Luz Lorenzana Twigg

Synopsis

Two strange children discover a dead whale on a beach and discuss the nasty underbelly of the world one of them is trapped in.

Two strange children discover a dead whale on a beach and discuss the nasty underbelly of the world one of them is trapped in.