I never learned how to speak Spanish and always felt real guilty for it. Conversations at my grandmother’s house were a grab bag of Spanish class greatest hits. My plays are often a reconciliation of what it means to embrace without the right tools. My mission in the arts is to craft diverse stories that challenge our cultural norms and are simultaneously hilarious and heartbreaking. Also, I’d like to see more LGBTQ+ Latinx people on stage dealing with topics that aren’t just from the point of view of the Latinx struggle through the predominantly white lens.
I write fast and comedic plays that begin joyous and celebratory and become increasingly dangerous and almost sinister. I’m interested in flipping perspective, meaning that a lot of my writing is centered on building up a character or an event and then very deliberately unraveling it or (sometimes literally) exploding it. I do this through playing with the physical structures of my plays; as the characters spin out of control so does the format in which they are contained. I believe plays exist as attempts to express something there aren’t words for; and so my goal with my style of deconstructive writing is to get the audience further from the necessity to find the words and instead in a place where they themselves feel unraveled. I try to keep them laughing while I do it- comedy can be a weapon that way.