Alessandra Viegas

Alessandra Viegas is an NYC-born, LA-based playwright and screenwriter. Their plays explore queerness through the lens of family, temporality, and the body, using elements of magical realism and poetry. Alessandra’s plays have been read and workshopped at The Villa Aurora, The Ebell of Los Angeles, The Wende Museum, First Kiss Theatre, The Garry Marshall Theatre, and the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. She was a Co-Lead Writer on Sacrifice Zone: Los Angeles, a multimedia theater project performed at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles in 2024. Her play, CHIMERA, was a semi-finalist for the O’Neill Theatre 2025 National Playwrights Conference. Her play, A Writer At The End of the World was selected for the 2025 Climate Action New Play Collective at DePaul University...

Alessandra Viegas is an NYC-born, LA-based playwright and screenwriter. Their plays explore queerness through the lens of family, temporality, and the body, using elements of magical realism and poetry. Alessandra’s plays have been read and workshopped at The Villa Aurora, The Ebell of Los Angeles, The Wende Museum, First Kiss Theatre, The Garry Marshall Theatre, and the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. She was a Co-Lead Writer on Sacrifice Zone: Los Angeles, a multimedia theater project performed at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles in 2024. Her play, CHIMERA, was a semi-finalist for the O’Neill Theatre 2025 National Playwrights Conference. Her play, A Writer At The End of the World was selected for the 2025 Climate Action New Play Collective at DePaul University and was recorded for First Kiss Theatre’s Play-Mates Podcast in 2024. Alessandra is also a member of EST/LA’s 2025 New West Playwrights cohort. She holds an MFA in Dramatic Writing from the University of Southern California.

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Scripts

BENEATH THIS EARTH

by Alessandra Viegas

Cast Size
6
Genre
drama

A family struggles to come together in the wake of their matriarch’s untimely death, but her magic remains…and so does her beloved plant, which refuses to die in her absence. As each character digs deeper into grief, will love be enough to pull them out? BENEATH THIS EARTH explores intergenerational trauma, forgiveness, and asks the question: does my grief make me unloveable?

A family struggles to come together in the wake of their matriarch’s untimely death, but her magic remains…and so does her beloved plant, which refuses to die in her absence. As each character digs deeper into grief, will love be enough to pull them out? BENEATH THIS EARTH explores intergenerational trauma, forgiveness, and asks the question: does my grief make me unloveable?

CHIMERA

by Alessandra Viegas

Cast Size
6
Genre
drama

A star high school volleyball player's world collapses when new legislation prevents her from competing due to high testosterone levels. The subsequent media backlash and unveiling of secrets from her past threaten to break her. Is she the monster everyone says she is?

A star high school volleyball player's world collapses when new legislation prevents her from competing due to high testosterone levels. The subsequent media backlash and unveiling of secrets from her past threaten to break her. Is she the monster everyone says she is?

DRIFT/FALL

by Alessandra Viegas

Cast Size
3
Genre
drama

A Portuguese immigrant comes to America with her American-Dream-obsessed husband, and her dead child, who she firmly believes is still alive. When she meets a talking whale at the pier, she is forced to confront her grief in unexpected ways. Will she and her husband come together, or will she drift out to sea?

A Portuguese immigrant comes to America with her American-Dream-obsessed husband, and her dead child, who she firmly believes is still alive. When she meets a talking whale at the pier, she is forced to confront her grief in unexpected ways. Will she and her husband come together, or will she drift out to sea?

A Writer at the End of the World

by Alessandra Viegas

Cast Size
3
Genre
drama

A writer attempts to tell a love story at the end of the world.

A writer attempts to tell a love story at the end of the world.

Before We Were

by Alessandra Viegas

Cast Size
5
Genre
drama

Before We Were tells the story of Ava, a college student who, through the process of interviewing her mother, Rosa, for her documentary, learns far more than she could have ever imagined. As Rosa opens up to Ava throughout a series of interviews about her own experience with multiple sclerosis, Ava gains independent access to Rosa’s memories and watches her past unfold. It is here that Ava meets Jared, Rosa’s...

Before We Were tells the story of Ava, a college student who, through the process of interviewing her mother, Rosa, for her documentary, learns far more than she could have ever imagined. As Rosa opens up to Ava throughout a series of interviews about her own experience with multiple sclerosis, Ava gains independent access to Rosa’s memories and watches her past unfold. It is here that Ava meets Jared, Rosa’s friend who died from AIDS in 1989, who begins to haunt Ava’s present. As the play oscillates between 1989 and 2016, Jared becomes more corporeal, and he and Ava develop a bond across temporal boundaries.

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Twilight Tandem

by Alessandra Viegas

1
Cast Size
3
Genre
drama

Los Angeles, 1953. After Kathleen is assaulted for wearing masculine clothing in public, her partner, Linda tries to set her up with her friend Archie as a beard. Kathleen doesn't want to sacrifice her authenticity, and Archie has reservations of his own as a recent war veteran. A ten-minute drama about authenticity and queer family.

Los Angeles, 1953. After Kathleen is assaulted for wearing masculine clothing in public, her partner, Linda tries to set her up with her friend Archie as a beard. Kathleen doesn't want to sacrifice her authenticity, and Archie has reservations of his own as a recent war veteran. A ten-minute drama about authenticity and queer family.