Leonard Madrid

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...
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.

Plays

  • Cebollas by Leonard Madrid
    Recommendations: 1
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    Cast: 
    3–4
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    Genre: comedy
    Genre: comedy
    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
    Cast: 
    4
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    Genre: comedy
    Genre: comedy
    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
    Cast: 
    4–5
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    Genre: comedy, fantasy
    Genre: comedy, fantasy
    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
    Cast: 
    5
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    Genre: comedy, fantasy
    Genre: comedy, fantasy
    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
    Recommendations: 1
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    Cast: 
    4–8
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    Genre: fable/folktale, fantasy + 1 more
    Genre: fable/folktale, fantasy, horror
    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
    Recommendations: 1
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    Cast: 
    8
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    Genre: adaptation, fable/folktale
    Genre: adaptation, fable/folktale
    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
    Cast: 
    6
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    Genre: fantasy
    Genre: fantasy
    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
    Cast: 
    8–9
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    Genre: horror, radio drama
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    Keyword: horror, radio play
    Genre: horror, radio drama
    Keyword: 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
    Cast: 
    4
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    Genre: fable/folktale, fantasy
    Genre: fable/folktale, fantasy
    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
    Cast: 
    2
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    Genre: fable/folktale, fantasy + 1 more
    Genre: fable/folktale, fantasy, horror
    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
    Cast: 
    5–7
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    Genre: faith-based, fantasy
    Genre: faith-based, fantasy
    Three friends are reunited 18 years after a Marian Epiphany in Tome', NM.