AnaSofía Villanueva

AnaSofía Villanueva is a writer, director, producer, and activist. As a writer, AnaSofía has published articles for American Theatre Magazine, StarTribune, and authored The Power Dynamics Series: From a Mixed-Race Latina’s Perspective for MinnesotaPlaylist. AnaSofía’s play, Sabor, received two developmental workshops with Artists Repertory Theatre and was featured in Teatro Milagro’s Ingenio 2020 New Latinx Play Development Festival. She has had a reading of her play, TENGO VOZ, at Mixed Blood Theatre. While in residency at the University of Idaho, three of her plays were produced: Amor del Alma, POLLUX, and EXOTIC. A more comprehensive bio can be found at www.AnaSofia.com and publications at MixedRaceLatina.com.

AnaSofía Villanueva is a writer, director, producer, and activist. As a writer, AnaSofía has published articles for American Theatre Magazine, StarTribune, and authored The Power Dynamics Series: From a Mixed-Race Latina’s Perspective for MinnesotaPlaylist. AnaSofía’s play, Sabor, received two developmental workshops with Artists Repertory Theatre and was featured in Teatro Milagro’s Ingenio 2020 New Latinx Play Development Festival. She has had a reading of her play, TENGO VOZ, at Mixed Blood Theatre. While in residency at the University of Idaho, three of her plays were produced: Amor del Alma, POLLUX, and EXOTIC. A more comprehensive bio can be found at www.AnaSofia.com and publications at MixedRaceLatina.com.

Scripts

SABOR

by AnaSofía Villanueva

2
Cast Size
5
Genre
drama,
political,
romantic comedy

Sabor is a story of a mixed-race Latina, Clara, in search of her place within the elite culinary world and among her relationships. After the passing of her abuelo, Clara makes drastic life changes: breaking off her engagement, quitting the French Michelin-star restaurant in Manhattan, and starting her own catering business in Queens with start-up money from her father, a successful Nuyorican restaurateur who...

Sabor is a story of a mixed-race Latina, Clara, in search of her place within the elite culinary world and among her relationships. After the passing of her abuelo, Clara makes drastic life changes: breaking off her engagement, quitting the French Michelin-star restaurant in Manhattan, and starting her own catering business in Queens with start-up money from her father, a successful Nuyorican restaurateur who wishes she would learn Spanish and avoid his patterns of grief and alcoholism. The transition is complicated by the familiarity of her former fiancé and the invigoration of an Instacart delivery person who challenges her ideas of success, sexuality, and identity. As her relationship with her father comes to a boiling point, the spirit of abuelo gives them a chance to start creating their own language—a language of food.

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TENGO VOZ

by AnaSofía Villanueva

Cast Size
8
Genre
comedy,
drama,
parody/spoof,
political,
verse

TENGO VOZ follows a young Latina, Berenice, as she navigates her first year in a Theater Arts graduate program. As she struggles to be heard within academia, the spirit of her younger self—a rebellious preteen—is drawn to her, and forces Berenice to confront her place in the arts, and this country.

TENGO VOZ follows a young Latina, Berenice, as she navigates her first year in a Theater Arts graduate program. As she struggles to be heard within academia, the spirit of her younger self—a rebellious preteen—is drawn to her, and forces Berenice to confront her place in the arts, and this country.

Exotic

by AnaSofía Villanueva

Cast Size
2
Genre
dark comedy,
drama,
political,
romantic comedy

A Latina, Mariela, navigates a relationship with a man outside of her racial and socioeconomic status, testing the boundaries of what defines someone as “exotic.”

A Latina, Mariela, navigates a relationship with a man outside of her racial and socioeconomic status, testing the boundaries of what defines someone as “exotic.”