Andrew Rincon

Andrew Rincón (he/she/they) is a Queer Colombian-American playwright, writer and educator. Their work blends fantasy, modern Latine mythology and Queer fabulation (in Spanish, English and Eh-Spanglish).
Their work/voice has been developed with companies such as; The Latinx Playwrights Circle, INTAR, The Austin Latino New Play Festival, The Amoralists Theatre Company, Pork Filled Productions (Seattle), Out Front Productions (Atlanta). Andrew was a member of INKtank Lab for Playwrights of Color (2017), 2017 Fornés Playwriting Workshop (Chicago). He is the winner of the 2018 Chesley/Bumbalo Grant for writers of Gay and Lesbian Theatre, and New Light Theatre Project’s New Light New Voices Award (2019). Dramatist Guild Foundation Fellow (19-20), MacDowell Fellow (Winter 2020). Skidmore...

Andrew Rincón (he/she/they) is a Queer Colombian-American playwright, writer and educator. Their work blends fantasy, modern Latine mythology and Queer fabulation (in Spanish, English and Eh-Spanglish).
Their work/voice has been developed with companies such as; The Latinx Playwrights Circle, INTAR, The Austin Latino New Play Festival, The Amoralists Theatre Company, Pork Filled Productions (Seattle), Out Front Productions (Atlanta). Andrew was a member of INKtank Lab for Playwrights of Color (2017), 2017 Fornés Playwriting Workshop (Chicago). He is the winner of the 2018 Chesley/Bumbalo Grant for writers of Gay and Lesbian Theatre, and New Light Theatre Project’s New Light New Voices Award (2019). Dramatist Guild Foundation Fellow (19-20), MacDowell Fellow (Winter 2020). Skidmore College’s Visiting Playwright in Residence (21-22). Finalist in LGBTQ Drama for the 36th Lambda Literary Awards 2024.
Select Full Length Plays include El Mito or The Myth of my Pain, The Lonely, The Leopard Women, Tempt Me.
Their play I Wanna Fuck like Romeo and Juliet had it’s world premiere in NYC at 59e59 Theatres (Fall 2022) and is published by Concord Theatricals.
They are currently pursuing an MFA in playwriting at Yale School of Drama. Andrew’s bio is current. Their website is not. Pero tranquilo papi, Andrew will update it eventually - www.andrewrinconwrites.com

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Scripts

Love and the Fear of it All

by Andrew Rincon

8
Cast Size
4—8
Genre
comedy,
romantic comedy

Matt is trying to surprise his boyfriend, Rob. He enlists Rob's brother Dan to help. Dan brings mayhem and a band to set the scene, which quickly derails.

A short play about holding onto love in the midst of fear.

Matt is trying to surprise his boyfriend, Rob. He enlists Rob's brother Dan to help. Dan brings mayhem and a band to set the scene, which quickly derails.

A short play about holding onto love in the midst of fear.

That Rhythm in the Blood

by Andrew Rincon

5
Cast Size
5
Genre
dark comedy,
drama,
movement/physical

Miggy, a young man experiencing heartbreak in his life, battles and rages with the ghost of his grandmother, Lucy, who lived through similar pain 40 years before. As Lucy pushes Miggy to move on with his life, grandmother and grandson travel through dreams, back in time to when Lucy first immigrated to the US and
was institutionalized after giving birth to Miggy’s mother. As they come to terms with the hurt they...

Miggy, a young man experiencing heartbreak in his life, battles and rages with the ghost of his grandmother, Lucy, who lived through similar pain 40 years before. As Lucy pushes Miggy to move on with his life, grandmother and grandson travel through dreams, back in time to when Lucy first immigrated to the US and
was institutionalized after giving birth to Miggy’s mother. As they come to terms with the hurt they share, they end up in confrontation with the men who broke their hearts. This play explores loss, loneliness and the pain that travels down immigration and blood.

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The Lonely (A Fictionally Non-Accurate Historical KiKi)

by Andrew Rincon

7
Cast Size
8
Genre
comedy,
fantasy

The play follows a young Latino graphic novelist, Kevin, from present day, as he joins a writers group comprised of famous Queer writers throughout history (Oscar Wilde, James Baldwin, Tennessee Williams, Zora Neale Hurston and more). As Kevin becomes involved with one of the most famous writers in the group, tensions along lines of talent, gender and race begin to boil. You got that Same Kind of Lonely is a...

The play follows a young Latino graphic novelist, Kevin, from present day, as he joins a writers group comprised of famous Queer writers throughout history (Oscar Wilde, James Baldwin, Tennessee Williams, Zora Neale Hurston and more). As Kevin becomes involved with one of the most famous writers in the group, tensions along lines of talent, gender and race begin to boil. You got that Same Kind of Lonely is a fictionally historial kiki that challenges us to examine the beautiful and the ugly of Queer community.

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