Alexander Perez

Alexander Perez

Alexander Perez is a Cuban-American Playwright/Desk Jockey/Dad making it work in the Big Apple. Since 2015 his plays have seen productions in New York City, London, Chicago, and beyond. Recent productions include Randy’s Dandy Coaster Castle (Egg & Spoon Theatre Collective , 2022), The In-Between (Pelmear Theatre, 2022), Randy’s Dandy Coaster Castle (IRT Theater, 2021) Prelude to a Hostile Takeover (Crafton...
Alexander Perez is a Cuban-American Playwright/Desk Jockey/Dad making it work in the Big Apple. Since 2015 his plays have seen productions in New York City, London, Chicago, and beyond. Recent productions include Randy’s Dandy Coaster Castle (Egg & Spoon Theatre Collective , 2022), The In-Between (Pelmear Theatre, 2022), Randy’s Dandy Coaster Castle (IRT Theater, 2021) Prelude to a Hostile Takeover (Crafton Hills College, 2021), Vibe War or Bertie Works from Home (Open Floor Plan, 2020), Something, Somewhere, Somehow (Isle of Shoals Productions, 2020), Even if it Gets Us Nowhere (Access Theater ,The Social Club Theater, 2019). Randy's Dandy Coaster Castle was a 2022 Finalist for the Southeastern Theatre Conference Ready to Publish Award.

Plays

  • Prelude to a Hostile Takeover by Alexander Perez
    Recommendations: 7
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    Cast: 
    3
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    Genre: comedy, dark comedy + 2 more
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    Keyword: Politics, Girl Scouts + 8 more
    Genre: comedy, dark comedy, political, zoom
    Keyword: Politics, Girl Scouts, nature, Camping, bugs, zoom, comedy, live stream, web cast, digital
    Young Olivia wants nothing more than to be Troop Leader of the Ladybug Scouts and she'll get what she wants by any means necessary.


    (ZOOM FORMATTED VERSION OF SHOW AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST)
  • Randy's Dandy Coaster Castle by Alexander Perez
    Recommendations: 6
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    Cast: 
    5
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    Genre: comedy, dark comedy + 3 more
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    Keyword: Employment, class and economic inequality + 2 more
    Genre: comedy, dark comedy, drama, political, tragedy
    Keyword: Employment, class and economic inequality, American workers, conflicting loyalties
    It's always a great day at Randy's...unless you work there. Randy’s Dandy Coaster Castle takes its audience into the complicated and darkly comedic lives of five co-workers doing their best to hold a scrappy amusement park together. The highs and lows of working at "Randy's" are no joke, but this little piece of life, detailing the experience of a day job that's also killing you,...
    It's always a great day at Randy's...unless you work there. Randy’s Dandy Coaster Castle takes its audience into the complicated and darkly comedic lives of five co-workers doing their best to hold a scrappy amusement park together. The highs and lows of working at "Randy's" are no joke, but this little piece of life, detailing the experience of a day job that's also killing you, is too funny and too relatable not to break your heart and leave you laughing through the cringe. Randy's Dandy explores class, capitalism, and the American dream through the colorful lens of this deeply human group of people.

    Games, Rides, and Family Fun for all! No refunds.
  • God Learns of the Death of Harambe, 2016 (colorized) by Alexander Perez
    Recommendations: 6
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    Cast: 
    4
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    Genre: comedy, faith-based + 2 more
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    Keyword: harambe, comedy + 7 more
    Genre: comedy, faith-based, parody/spoof, satire
    Keyword: harambe, comedy, 2016, Politics, faith, light blasphemy, parenthood, conflicting responsibilities, memes
    Humanity has murdered the Almighty's favorite creation and it's up to Gabriel and Michael to deliver the bad news.
  • The Bad in Each Other by Alexander Perez
    Recommendations: 4
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    Cast: 
    2
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    Genre: comedy, dark comedy + 4 more
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    Keyword: art, activism + 8 more
    Genre: comedy, dark comedy, drama, melodrama, political, romantic comedy
    Keyword: art, activism, Politics, Sex, love, gender neutral casting, ethics, ideology, protest, wealth
    A hot fling between the artistic badass we wish we could be and the privileged soyboy we are, evolves into a years-long struggle to reconcile their ambition, ideals, and lust.

    What is creative success but a means to betray your ideals?

    What is activism if not a means to apologize for privilege?

    Can’t we just stay home and watch tv?
  • Quandary in Verse by Alexander Perez
    Recommendations: 4
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    Cast: 
    3
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    Genre: comedy, experimental + 4 more
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    Keyword: rhymes, hijinks + 3 more
    Genre: comedy, experimental, farce, melodrama, satire, verse
    Keyword: rhymes, hijinks, Drugs, Heightened, corporate culture
    Following a torturous stretch of unemployment Oliver finally lands a new job, but one last obstacle stands between him and a steady paycheck.
  • Booked and Blessed...OR BUST! by Alexander Perez
    Recommendations: 3
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    Cast: 
    11–18
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    Genre: comedy, movement/physical + 1 more
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    Keyword: comedy, college + 6 more
    Genre: comedy, movement/physical, satire
    Keyword: comedy, college, aspirational, inspirational, backstage, absurd, amateur, community
    Lucille might be on Broadway but she hasn't quite made it. Brig's the best agent in town but his last client's just been hauled off to prison. A preposterous ode to slugging your way through the lower-middle class of showbiz. Part love letter, part cry for help, completely ridiculous.
  • Even if it Gets Us Nowhere by Alexander Perez
    Recommendations: 3
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    Cast: 
    4
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    Genre: comedy, melodrama + 3 more
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    Keyword: high energy, fast-paced + 5 more
    Genre: comedy, melodrama, movement/physical, romantic comedy, verse
    Keyword: high energy, fast-paced, funny, romance, philosophy, existential, uplifting
    After a successful evening turns sour, two young people are launched into existential turmoil.

    Life, human anatomy, and the ties that bind our reality together are all called into question from the comfort of a living room couch and the sticky floors of a local disco.
  • Rut by Alexander Perez
    Recommendations: 3
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    Cast: 
    2
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    Genre: comedy, dark comedy + 6 more
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    Keyword: intimacy, prison + 2 more
    Genre: comedy, dark comedy, drama, horror, melodrama, movement/physical, science fiction, tragedy
    Keyword: intimacy, prison, regret, mercy
    A perpetual sentence in a dismal abyss. Dust in their eyes, dirt in their teeth, and a magic 8-Ball parading as a false god. Hell truly is other people.
  • Renaissance Man by Alexander Perez
    Recommendations: 2
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    Cast: 
    3
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    Genre: comedy, zoom
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    Keyword: Quarantine, COVID + 5 more
    Genre: comedy, zoom
    Keyword: Quarantine, COVID, Covid-19, couples, Mental Health, coping, 2020
    Glory's partner Gerald has taken up a few new hobbies to deal with the stress of the quarantine age. It’s starting to get out of hand.
  • I Was A Teenage Incel by Alexander Perez
    Recommendations: 2
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    Cast: 
    2
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    Genre: comedy, political
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    Keyword: parenthood, incel + 3 more
    Genre: comedy, political
    Keyword: parenthood, incel, father, teenagers, Toxic Masculinity
    Horace's son is having some girl trouble at school. It's up to him to keep his little boy from repeating the same mistakes he made in his youth.
  • The In-Between by Alexander Perez
    Recommendations: 1
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    Cast: 
    9–11
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    Genre: comedy, dark comedy + 3 more
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    Keyword: large cast, vignettes + 7 more
    Genre: comedy, dark comedy, drama, romantic comedy, tragedy
    Keyword: large cast, vignettes, non-linear, Relationships, family, Mental Health, surgery, absurd, Surreal
    Life’s cavalcade of mundane chaos, broken into pieces and reassembled into a reel of interlocking familial, personal, and domestic episodes that highlight the struggle of existing between the milestones.
  • better than real by Alexander Perez
    Recommendations: 1
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    Cast: 
    2
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    Genre: comedy, drama
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    Keyword: parenthood, caretaker + 7 more
    Genre: comedy, drama
    Keyword: parenthood, caretaker, family, found family, unorthodox family, role reversal, age, vegan, cooking
    Fiorella's health demands a dietary change. Will Dom's faux meat meet muster?

    What's more tender than the ever evolving dynamic between caretaker and child?

    A tofu block; that's what.

    Published in Smith & Kraus' The Best 10-Minute Plays of 2024" Anthology. On Sale Oct 2024!
  • Warm Re*ards by Alexander Perez
    Recommendations: 1
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    Cast: 
    4
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    Genre: comedy, dark comedy + 1 more
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    Keyword: political correctness, corporate America + 5 more
    Genre: comedy, dark comedy, satire
    Keyword: political correctness, corporate America, Human Resources, contemporary, silly, Fun, socially relevant
    Mia used the wrong word in an email; time to have a meeting about it!
  • Things It Would Have Been Helpful to Know Before the Revolution: Fraught Visions From a Liberated Future - Episode ??? - THE SPICEM'N by Alexander Perez
    Cast: 
    3
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    Genre: comedy, dark comedy + 3 more
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    Keyword: revolution, cooking + 5 more
    Genre: comedy, dark comedy, drama, fable/folktale, political
    Keyword: revolution, cooking, spices, quirky, Dystopian, Camping, dark comedy
    This is a slice from a work in progress and by work in progress I mean this is everything that I have and there are no immediate plans to continue because, well, I don't have anything.

    Oddly enough this works as it's own standalone piece maybe? Who knows. The title is a long ridiculous thing, for the purposes of producing this selection on it's own, it can just be called: "...
    This is a slice from a work in progress and by work in progress I mean this is everything that I have and there are no immediate plans to continue because, well, I don't have anything.

    Oddly enough this works as it's own standalone piece maybe? Who knows. The title is a long ridiculous thing, for the purposes of producing this selection on it's own, it can just be called: "The Spicem'n".

    That said I won't stop you from putting the entire thing on there if you want to be as ridiculous a person as I am. Mostly putting this here as a feeble attempt at making myself accountable for finishing this thing maybe.
  • The Trojan Keg by Alexander Perez
    Cast: 
    3
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    Genre: adaptation, adventure + 10 more
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    Keyword: mythology, contemporary adaptation + 8 more
    Genre: adaptation, adventure, comedy, docudrama/historic, fable/folktale, farce, parody/spoof, political, radio drama, romantic comedy, satire, verse
    Keyword: mythology, contemporary adaptation, college, comedy, short comedy, greek, Frat boys, masculinity, Ancient Greece, Homer
    THOSE CHUDS AT TROY HOUSE TOOK MANNY'S GIRL.

    ODIE, ARCHIE, AND AJ ARE ON THE CASE.

    LET'S GO BOYS!
  • Elf Wanted by Alexander Perez
    Cast: 
    2
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    Genre: comedy, fantasy + 3 more
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    Keyword: christmas, holiday + 8 more
    Genre: comedy, fantasy, holiday, young audiences, zoom
    Keyword: christmas, holiday, comedy, Christmas Elves, Fantasy, friendship, christmas comedy, holiday comedy, cute, wholesome
    C. Cringletingle, Head Fore-Elf, is prepared as ever to onboard the latest hire at Santa's Workshop. What they weren't prepared for is how tall they'd be...