Linda Amayo-Hassan

Linda Amayo-Hassan is a Native & Chicana playwright, actor, and director from the San Francisco Bay Area. She is the Founder and Artistic Director of Theatre Cultura and is a theatre professor at Chabot College. Linda recently had a playwrighting residency at Berkeley Reps Ground Floor, a residency with PlayGround SF and had the honor of participating in The Kennedy Center Playwrighting Intensive. Her plays have been produced at PlayGround SF, The Pear Theatre, Native Writers’ Theater, Same Boat Theater Collective and More Más Marami Arts. Linda has an MFA in Acting and Directing from the University of Missouri in Kansas City. She is a board member for PlayGround SF, and an enrolled member of the Spirit Lake Tribe.

Linda Amayo-Hassan is a Native & Chicana playwright, actor, and director from the San Francisco Bay Area. She is the Founder and Artistic Director of Theatre Cultura and is a theatre professor at Chabot College. Linda recently had a playwrighting residency at Berkeley Reps Ground Floor, a residency with PlayGround SF and had the honor of participating in The Kennedy Center Playwrighting Intensive. Her plays have been produced at PlayGround SF, The Pear Theatre, Native Writers’ Theater, Same Boat Theater Collective and More Más Marami Arts. Linda has an MFA in Acting and Directing from the University of Missouri in Kansas City. She is a board member for PlayGround SF, and an enrolled member of the Spirit Lake Tribe.

Scripts

The Missing Songs

by Linda Amayo-Hassan

Cast Size
6—12
Genre
drama

The Missing Songs is a dramatic play with music about Missing and Murdered Indigenous Relatives. Set in a cocktail bar in an Indian Casino in the Dakotas. Shannon, recently returned to the reservation, confronts Buck, who she suspects is withholding information about her sister's disappearance. The pain and anguish of loss and disappearance felt throughout the community is expressed through a series of dramatic...

The Missing Songs is a dramatic play with music about Missing and Murdered Indigenous Relatives. Set in a cocktail bar in an Indian Casino in the Dakotas. Shannon, recently returned to the reservation, confronts Buck, who she suspects is withholding information about her sister's disappearance. The pain and anguish of loss and disappearance felt throughout the community is expressed through a series of dramatic vignettes and haunting songs.

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The Delgados; Feast of Hate

by Linda Amayo-Hassan

Cast Size
7
Genre
dark comedy,
drama,
mystery/thriller,
tragedy

THE DELGADOS; FEAST OF HATE is a grown-ass Mexican American family drama set in the Midwest at the dilapidated home of the Delgado’s. With great volatility and dark humor, we witness the eruption and destruction of a working class Mexican American family. Jealousy and middle-aged sibling rivalry exposes the dark underbelly of this family and conjures up unexplained mysteries occurring in the house. Old habits...

THE DELGADOS; FEAST OF HATE is a grown-ass Mexican American family drama set in the Midwest at the dilapidated home of the Delgado’s. With great volatility and dark humor, we witness the eruption and destruction of a working class Mexican American family. Jealousy and middle-aged sibling rivalry exposes the dark underbelly of this family and conjures up unexplained mysteries occurring in the house. Old habits die hard even in your middle age.

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¡CHEER! Story of a Dreamer

by Linda Amayo-Hassan

Cast Size
12—20
Genre
dark comedy,
drama,
political,
tragedy,
young audiences

¡CHEER! Story of a Dreamer examines the stress, the uncertainty, and the injustice that we place on DACA recipients and their families. The play starts at the end of the Obama years as Erica Chavez, a high school senior and a cheerleader discovers she is undocumented while applying for college. With vivid characters, drama and humor, the play takes audiences into the homes and behind the curtains where the harsh...

¡CHEER! Story of a Dreamer examines the stress, the uncertainty, and the injustice that we place on DACA recipients and their families. The play starts at the end of the Obama years as Erica Chavez, a high school senior and a cheerleader discovers she is undocumented while applying for college. With vivid characters, drama and humor, the play takes audiences into the homes and behind the curtains where the harsh reality of being undocumented and hiding in the shadows is real and terrifying.

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