Andrew Rincon

Andrew Rincón is a Queer Colombian-American playwright based in NYC. His plays have been developed with Rising Circle Theatre Collective, INTAR, Amios, the Austin Latino New Play Festival, The Amoralists Theatre Company, Pork Filled Productions (Seattle), Out Front Productions (Atlanta) and The 24 Hour Plays. He was one of six playwrights in Wright Club, The Amoralist's Theatre Company's yearlong playwright development program ('15-'16) He was a member of INKtank Lab for Playwrights of Color (2017) and the 2017 Fornés Playwriting Workshop (Chicago). He is winner of the 2018 Chesley/Bumbalo Grant for writers of Gay and Lesbian Theatre. He is a company member of Unit 52 at INTAR and a Dramatist Guild Foundation Fellow (19-20).
Plays include You Got That Same Kind of Lonely, and That Rhythm...

Andrew Rincón is a Queer Colombian-American playwright based in NYC. His plays have been developed with Rising Circle Theatre Collective, INTAR, Amios, the Austin Latino New Play Festival, The Amoralists Theatre Company, Pork Filled Productions (Seattle), Out Front Productions (Atlanta) and The 24 Hour Plays. He was one of six playwrights in Wright Club, The Amoralist's Theatre Company's yearlong playwright development program ('15-'16) He was a member of INKtank Lab for Playwrights of Color (2017) and the 2017 Fornés Playwriting Workshop (Chicago). He is winner of the 2018 Chesley/Bumbalo Grant for writers of Gay and Lesbian Theatre. He is a company member of Unit 52 at INTAR and a Dramatist Guild Foundation Fellow (19-20).
Plays include You Got That Same Kind of Lonely, and That Rhythm in the Blood. He is currently working on a new play entitled “I’ll meet you outside the airport, ok?”, which follows a Colombian American family producing a local access telenovela in Miami, FL, grappling with their idea of the “American Dream”.
His queer fantasia play “I Wanna Fuck like Romeo and Juliet” is the winner of New Light Theatre Project's New Light New Voices Award (2019) and will receive its New York stage premiere in their 19/20 season (May 2020). The play was originally written for an audio format and can be heard for free on The Parsnip Ship, Season 3, Episode 4.

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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.

I Wanna Fuck like Romeo and Juliet

by Andrew Rincon

27
Cast Size
5
Genre
comedy,
fantasy,
romantic comedy

Snow in July, comets falling from the sky, the world is thrown into chaos as Cupid rips off her wings and
gives up on Love. But her old flame Saint Valentine has a plan to bring her spirits back up; and it involves
the relationship between two men, Alejandro and Benny. Moving from outer space to Hackensack NJ, I
Wanna Fuck like Romeo and Juliet is a Queer Love story of epic proportions that investigates God and...

Snow in July, comets falling from the sky, the world is thrown into chaos as Cupid rips off her wings and
gives up on Love. But her old flame Saint Valentine has a plan to bring her spirits back up; and it involves
the relationship between two men, Alejandro and Benny. Moving from outer space to Hackensack NJ, I
Wanna Fuck like Romeo and Juliet is a Queer Love story of epic proportions that investigates God and
mortals, realism and fantasy and the shame and joy within Queer love of Color.

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That Rhythm in the Blood

by Andrew Rincon

6
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

8
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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