Leonard Madrid

Leonard Madrid is a New Mexican theatre artist. He has worked as an actor, designer, director, improvisor, and educator in the Albuquerque area for over twenty years. He has been the recipient of the Kennedy Center’s Latinx Playwriting Award three times. He participated in the Ignition Festival at Victory Gardens Theatre, the Ground Floor at Berkely Rep, and the Festival Internacional de Teatro Universitario in Mexico City. Most recently, his play Cebollas was featured as part of the Colorado New Play Summit.

Leonard Madrid is a New Mexican theatre artist. He has worked as an actor, designer, director, improvisor, and educator in the Albuquerque area for over twenty years. He has been the recipient of the Kennedy Center’s Latinx Playwriting Award three times. He participated in the Ignition Festival at Victory Gardens Theatre, the Ground Floor at Berkely Rep, and the Festival Internacional de Teatro Universitario in Mexico City. Most recently, his play Cebollas was featured as part of the Colorado New Play Summit.

Scripts

Cebollas

by Leonard Madrid

Synopsis

Three Sisters, four wheels, four hundred miles, and one dead body.
Take a road trip from Albuquerque, NM to Denver, CO with your three favorite sisters and a dead body.

Three Sisters, four wheels, four hundred miles, and one dead body.
Take a road trip from Albuquerque, NM to Denver, CO with your three favorite sisters and a dead body.

Bodalands: A Play in Four Weddings

by Leonard Madrid

Synopsis

Four cousins and four weddings over twenty years. A comedy about the life-long bonds of cousins...and everyone gets kidnapped at least once.

Four cousins and four weddings over twenty years. A comedy about the life-long bonds of cousins...and everyone gets kidnapped at least once.

Volver Volver Volver

by Leonard Madrid

Synopsis

Junie Holguin returns home after three days and learns he's been dead for three years. To figure out his death and his life he returns to his mother, his wife, and his daughter.
This play can be performed by itself or as a companion piece to Ambrosita.

Junie Holguin returns home after three days and learns he's been dead for three years. To figure out his death and his life he returns to his mother, his wife, and his daughter.
This play can be performed by itself or as a companion piece to Ambrosita.

Ambrosita

by Leonard Madrid

Synopsis

Ambrosita Lucero walks down mainstreet in Portales, NM on her way to figure out a local prophecy about who she will marry.

Ambrosita Lucero walks down mainstreet in Portales, NM on her way to figure out a local prophecy about who she will marry.

Las Arañas

by Leonard Madrid

Synopsis

Luz Barela has lived her whole life along the edge of the mesa on a spot where wicked people bury their victims. They're also the grounds of Las Arañas, mythical monsters who crave the blood of the wicked. When the land is set to sell, her world changes.

Luz Barela has lived her whole life along the edge of the mesa on a spot where wicked people bury their victims. They're also the grounds of Las Arañas, mythical monsters who crave the blood of the wicked. When the land is set to sell, her world changes.

Aurora

by Leonard Madrid

Synopsis

When death rolls through the streets of Mora, Aurora has to make a decision. Who will die? In this Adaptation of Alcestis, everyone in a family has to choose.

When death rolls through the streets of Mora, Aurora has to make a decision. Who will die? In this Adaptation of Alcestis, everyone in a family has to choose.

Perla de Luna

by Leonard Madrid

Synopsis

Perla puts her life on hold to care for her father. In her dreams, she meets the daughter she might have had.

Perla puts her life on hold to care for her father. In her dreams, she meets the daughter she might have had.

A Phone Call From Tres Santos, NM

by Leonard Madrid

Synopsis

One burial too many wakes up a twisted god in the small town of Tres Santos, NM.
Intended as a horror radio play.

One burial too many wakes up a twisted god in the small town of Tres Santos, NM.
Intended as a horror radio play.

La Lluvia

by Leonard Madrid

Synopsis

Three generations women live in the same house in Barelas. Everything changes when the goddess rain returns and brings floods with her.

Three generations women live in the same house in Barelas. Everything changes when the goddess rain returns and brings floods with her.

El Malo Malo

by Leonard Madrid

Synopsis

Dora finds a box near the river. Inside is either a child or a monster that her grandmother hid away decades ago.

Dora finds a box near the river. Inside is either a child or a monster that her grandmother hid away decades ago.

Belen

by Leonard Madrid

Synopsis

Three friends are reunited 18 years after a Marian Epiphany in Tome', NM.

Three friends are reunited 18 years after a Marian Epiphany in Tome', NM.