Marvin González De León

Marvin González De León

Marvin González De León writes plays that incorporate a myriad of genres—from sci fi to horror—anchored in the traditions of Latin American literature. His work has been produced and developed at Arizona State University, Texas State University, Teatro del Pueblo, Repertorio Español, Round House Theatre, SPACE on Ryder Farm, Page 73 Productions, The Playwrights Realm, the Playwrights’ Center, The O’Neill Center...
Marvin González De León writes plays that incorporate a myriad of genres—from sci fi to horror—anchored in the traditions of Latin American literature. His work has been produced and developed at Arizona State University, Texas State University, Teatro del Pueblo, Repertorio Español, Round House Theatre, SPACE on Ryder Farm, Page 73 Productions, The Playwrights Realm, the Playwrights’ Center, The O’Neill Center, and Berkeley Rep. He was the recipient of the 2022 Page 73 Playwriting Fellowship. He is also a Core Writer at the Playwrights’ Center, where he was previously awarded the Jerome Fellowship, the McKnight Fellowship in Playwriting, and the Many Voices Fellowship. He was a member of the 2020/2021 Interstate 73 Writers Group at Page 73 Productions and was a 2020-2021 Virtual Realm Mentee with The Playwrights Realm. His plays include Too Close to Earth—which has been developed by the Playwrights’ Center, Page 73, and Repertorio Español—and Madre de Dios—which was developed at the 2024 O’Neill National Playwrights Conference, the 2022 National Capital New Play Festival, and received a 2020 Page 73 Residency. Madre de Dios was also nominated for The Smith Prize, The Arnold Weissberger New Play Award, The Bret Adams & Paul Reisch Foundation’s Idea Award for new plays, the Ollie Award, and the Venturous Fellowship. González De León received his MFA in Dramatic Writing in 2017 at Arizona State University.

Awards and Distinctions:
Ground Floor Residency - Berkeley Rep - 2024
National Playwrights Conference - The O'Neill Center - 2024
Working Farm Residency - SPACE on Ryder Farm - 2024
Institutional Residency - SPACE on Ryder Farm - 2022
National Capital New Plays Festival - Roundhouse Theatre - 2022
Page 73 Playwriting Fellow - 2022
Playwrights' Center Jerome Fellow - 2021-2022
Page 73 Residency - Madre de Dios
2021 Page 73 Fellowship - Finalist
2020 Playwrights Realm Fellowship - Finalist
2020-2021 Virtual Realm Mentee at the Playwrights Realm
2020/2021 Interstate 73 Writers Group Member
Playwrights' Center McKnight Fellow in Playwriting - 2020-2021
2019 PlayLabs New Work Festival, The Playwrights' Center - Pan Genesis
Playwrights' Center Core Writer - 2019-2024
Semi-finalist, 2019 Princes Grace Playwriting Fellowship, New Dramatists - Pan Genesis
Finalist, 2019 Playwrights Realm Scratchpad Series - Pan Genesis
Playwrights' Center Many Voices Fellow - 2018-2019

Plays

  • Madre de Dios by Marvin González De León
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    Genre: dark comedy, drama + 2 more
    Genre: dark comedy, drama, horror, science fiction
    After years of absence, Moisés returns to his family home in the southern Nevada desert for his sister’s wake. His attempts to reconcile with his twin brother, Noé, are complicated by the presence of a Canopy that shades the desert from rising temperatures, an unexplained supernatural force, and his mother’s unwavering devotion to God, which may be driving her toward madness. Madre de Dios begins as a Mexican-...
    After years of absence, Moisés returns to his family home in the southern Nevada desert for his sister’s wake. His attempts to reconcile with his twin brother, Noé, are complicated by the presence of a Canopy that shades the desert from rising temperatures, an unexplained supernatural force, and his mother’s unwavering devotion to God, which may be driving her toward madness. Madre de Dios begins as a Mexican-American family drama that unexpectedly unravels into a genre-bending biblical myth about good vs. evil, redemption, and how to survive in a world that’s not only dying, but trying take you with it.
  • Pa' Fuera Pa' Fuera Pa' Fuera by Marvin González De León
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    Genre: comedy, dark comedy + 2 more
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    Keyword: gaslighting, horror + 3 more
    Genre: comedy, dark comedy, horror, romantic comedy
    Keyword: gaslighting, horror, rom com, brujeria, witchcraft
    Ana has the perfect apartment. There’s only one problem: Her long-time boyfriend, Brean, who refuses to leave after she breaks up with him. The more Ana tries to get him to leave, the more he doubles down on staying. Pa’ Fuera Pa’ Fuera Pa’ Fuera is a modern horror comedy that asks to what lengths a woman would go to achieve their freedom from the ultimate monster: a gaslighting ex-boyfriend who just won’t go away.
  • Pan Genesis by Marvin González De León
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    Genre: comedy, dark comedy + 9 more
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    Keyword: gender politics, fluid sexuality + 6 more
    Genre: comedy, dark comedy, drama, experimental, fantasy, horror, movement/physical, mystery/thriller, political, satire, science fiction
    Keyword: gender politics, fluid sexuality, dark satire, Latinx, Darwinism, feminism, dark comedy, ape
    When a chimpanzee, Andrés, washes up on the bank of the Congo River, the last surviving bonobos plagued by a mysterious illness must make a hard choice. Do they invite this aggressive chimpanzee into their peaceful, female-dominated tribe to help them repopulate? Or do they protect themselves from him but face extinction? Pan Genesis is a sexy, dark comedy set in an apocalyptic jungle that explores, through our...
    When a chimpanzee, Andrés, washes up on the bank of the Congo River, the last surviving bonobos plagued by a mysterious illness must make a hard choice. Do they invite this aggressive chimpanzee into their peaceful, female-dominated tribe to help them repopulate? Or do they protect themselves from him but face extinction? Pan Genesis is a sexy, dark comedy set in an apocalyptic jungle that explores, through our closest animal relatives, the most fundamental human qualities: connection, bonding, safety, and survival when we’re threatened by darkness from within and from the outside world.