Hortense Gerardo

The Token Fallopians of Middleton Heights is a dark comedy that follows MEENA and her Filipino family as they assimilate to life in a Midwestern suburb of Cleveland, Ohio. The play traces historical events in the Cleveland and surrounding area from 1967 to 2014 and the family’s pursuit of the American Dream, refracted through the intersectional lens of the Asian American Pacific Islander immigrant experience.

Part 2 of a Trilogy of plays on the theme of the Asian American Pacific Islander experience.

Written by Hortense Gerardo

A world-renown research scientist Solange Januario embarks on a series of experiments
exploring the sometimes surreal lengths that people go to achieve their ideal of Beauty.

Professor Wilde, a professor of Russian literature and Elle, a college senior and professional model, match wit and will in this short comic play about judging a book by its cover and the gulag of false assumptions.

In this magical surrealist one-act play, Dona Felicidad discovers the joys and the pitfalls of being granted eternal youth.

In this historical trip-hop satire, the women of Aristophanes' Lysistrata kidnap Thucydides in a madcap attempt to persuade him to include women's voices in his rewrite of The History of the Peloponnesian War.

Philomeena (MEENA) helps MAMA prepare for the most fabulous celebration of her life.

When BOOMER decides to propose marriage to LACEY, an unseen observer provides an uncomfortably objective interpretation of their human behavior.

When Lucy brings her boyfriend Donald, home to meet her parents, he learns more than he bargained for about himself, human nature, and the seemingly backward ways of the folks in the heartland of America in the not-too-distant future.

After their first, enthralling, intimate encounter, Egon, a New-age automaton with Old World sensibilities challenges Chloe's views on what it means to be human and in love in the 21st century.

The play follows the story of Andreas Vesalius, the petty arguments he fought with Church leaders of his day, the scientific forefather (Galen) he had to usurp, and his major contributions to the way we think about the human body to this day. It is interesting to note that Vesalius himself, the anatomist who painstakingly recorded the fabric of the human body, was in all likelihood, an achondroplastic dwarf. It is arguable that some of the difficulties he faced throughout his career were based, in part, because of his physical deformities; he was born at a time when physical beauty was equated with purity of soul.