KHALIL LESALDO

KHALIL LESALDO

I believe you can achieve great emotional depths with sketch - often interrogating a theme from different directions. I write longer stuff, too, when a subject earns its length. I often write comedic scenes that go tragic, or that can be interpreted tragically. I often write with social commentary take-aways, and often in what can be described as science-fiction tones; Science-fiction: where the heroes are the ideas.

Plays

  • Carefull
    One confesses to another that they are a goblin, and the realities are considered.
  • Sing
    A pair of siblings (gender and race do no matter, age does not matter) try to connect over zoom/skype/facetime.
  • In a Manor of Speaking
    An aristocratic daughter's attempt to switch places with the house's lowly odorous beggar leads the two of them to see new dynamics between the owners of the house and their visitors. Class and gender are examined in this silly world-breaking period piece.
  • The Skunk Cycle
    A dark comedy with lots of swearing that tone shifts into an interrogation of how we build our lives, and what how to balance the expression of love with that of a partner.
    Two households - One human, one skunk. In a brief moment of passion, their lives become irrevocably intertwined, and fates connected. You get to disarm the audience by being a skunk. Any identity axis can perform these roles.
  • The Skunk Cycle (1 hour)
    A dark comedy with lots of swearing that tone shifts into an interrogation of how we build our lives, and what how to balance the expression of love with that of a partner.
    Two households - One human, one skunk. In a brief moment of passion, their lives become irrevocably intertwined, and fates connected. You get to disarm the audience by being a skunk. Any identity axis can perform these roles.