Christin Eve Cato

Caridad and Renata are sisters, 25 years apart, whose father's health condition is worsening day by day. Renata is a lawyer, and as his proxy, is responsible for writing his will. To relieve some of the tension, Renata visits Caridad while she is making sancocho. The preparation of the stew leads the sisters through a journey of their culture, womanhood, transgenerational trauma, and family history. All is well until Renata shares news about an unexpected inheritance, causing Caridad to spill some beans about their father's illegitimate son, Eduardo. The sisters now have to decide if he should be included in their father's Will.

It’s 90 minutes until curtain for the non-union, Latine, bilingual, production of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Oklahoma, playing at a regional theater in Oklahoma when Melinda receives a call. The State has banned abortion and her upcoming appointment – canceled. With the performance approaching, the cast and crew band together (with some magical guidance!) to navigate a post-Roe America. Filled with tears, laughter and jokes that are just too soon, O.K! uncovers revelations about the company’s pasts, personal lives, and biases, and their relationship with a society desperate to discount their humanity.

It's the 4th anniversary of Jaden and Julissa's father’s death. To celebrate his life, Mom gets them all together to talk about their fun moments with Dad. This ritual is always painful for the siblings: Julissa is still not ready to talk about her memories and young Jaden barely has any of his own that he can recollect. To solve the ritual problem, Jaden invents a Memory App that is able to infiltrate the brain to show all the memories stored in it. Tempted with the idea of seeing Dad again, Julissa secretly syncs herself to the Memory App and gets accidentally trapped inside of her brain! After finding her unconscious, Jaden frantically tries to fix the malfunction and calls on their friends Milton, Destiny and Kira to join the effort to save Julissa. But a big problem awaits them- Julissa discovers that being inside of her brain grants her the opportunity to erase unwanted memories, like Dad's death. If the team doesn't reach Julissa before she makes this major decision the repercussions could change her life forever!

In the early 2000s, the Bushwick area of Brooklyn began radically gentrifying. In Stoop Pigeons, we witness a decade that illuminates the cultural changes of a Bushwick neighborhood and the people who inhabit it. As the block undergoes a metamorphosis, neighborhood figureheads like Ms. Suzy are suffering financially and mentally. Elders, like Big Mary and Mista Petie, do all they can to keep their people together. The kids who grew up on the block, like Tanya, Lexi, and Bridgit, face the challenges of losing the only home they have ever known. Their living conditions reach another level when a gentrifier, Amanda, meets a returning neighbor, Mario. Their relationship demonstrates how gentrification can amplify drug-related crime, as this updated demographic introduces a fancier clientele. Although there are new players in the game, it is still the Black and Brown folks who are severely affected. As their worlds take a turn for the worst, what will they do to ensure that nobody gets left behind? Is it all inevitable? Stoop Pigeons is a story about poverty, miseducation, addiction, and mental health. What does it mean for these neighbors to stay left behind in a society that continues to incriminate them and neglect their basic human needs?

Ana loves Dom. Clara loves Faye. Dom loves Ana and Faye. Love and opioids are the drugs of this time. Everyone is conflicted one way or another. These people are living in a crisis.

Just a slice of the everyday life of a brown Latina woman adulting in New York City...but she's not your average! Marjorie struggles to be herself amidst her dysfunctional family, emotionally unstable friends, and a compromised career. When her love life takes a surprising turn, she is inevitably faced with the tasks of introspection, self-love, and acceptance.

Towards the end of 2020, after several deadly #BLM protests, a series of terrorizing police brutality incidents, and a global pandemic: the streets of New York City were full of poverty and anarchy. Several areas of NYC were full of crime because the NYPD no longer entered them. Protests became more and more dangerous for unarmed civilians. The unemployment rate was so devastating that many New Yorkers (and people all over the USA) were in massive amounts of debt, went bankrupt, had their homes foreclosed, and struggled for food and shelter. Evaristo, Keisha, alongside their Black & Latino comrades, organized to establish law and order in their communities. This group was called the Black & Brown Guerrillas (The BBG). The BBG, through grassroots efforts, excels at creating chapters all around the country. With their political influence, the BBG creates a new party of politics (The Freedom Party) that elects America’s first Black female President, Keisha Hampton. This new system of government creates a multi-party system that overthrows outdated methods of governing, allowing more progressive policies to take precedence. This play is a tribute to The Black Panthers and The Young Lords, recognizing their contributions to liberating The People and fighting for equality. What can we learn about their movements? Can we replicate movements like theirs today? If so, how? The central questions in this play are: how do we organize and start a revolution? What is the best way to do it- through political action or by fighting and protesting with our bodies?

During an internet civil war, Lucilla Lebrón stumbles upon a secret online group planning to take over NYC and discovers that she only has 48 hours to plan a defense.

Two inmates talk about work-life inside of the penitentiary.

Anita Jones is a journalist who dedicates her life to civil rights and justice, and she is about to help file a lawsuit that will change many Black and Brown lives forever. Anita needs another signature and turns to her estranged friend, Jade Santiago, a police officer who abides by the blue wall of silence.

Sam is a teenager who's in trouble. The Police Athletic League is often a place for the youth to find refuge. Officer Garcia attempts to connect with Sam through a game of one on one basketball. How can a foul shot change the trajectory of her life?

An adaptation of the sunshower myth that originates in the Latin-Caribbean culture: every time there is a sunshower, it means that a witch got married. In my adaptation, a grandmother, Abuela, and granddaughter, Mimi, are stuck in an apartment during a sun shower. Abuela tells Mimi a story about a Water Bruja, Marisol, who needed to practice self-love to rid herself of her endless showers of misery. When Marisol decides to love herself and make a commitment to herself through marriage, the sun shines on her dark and stormy life. It's a story that teaches children the importance of loving and respecting who they are no matter the obstacles.

Naomi recounts her Covid-19 experience, warning her church community about the racial disparities happening within this capitalistic pandemic.

Inspired by Shakespeare's 3 witches from MacBeth. These three brujas conjure up something super-strange in their super-natural realities.

A microplay about a granddaughter and her grandmother living in the pandemic, questioning all that is uncertain.

A microplay/monologue where we get to hear from little young Corona herself.

Two young girls learn about very mature subjects and try to make sense of all the confusing things adults do. They also catch grandma at a church speed dating event for senior citizens. How could all these things be true about grown ups?!

Two lazy young adults from NYC learn about social justice, urban planning, and the importance of voting when they take a walk throughout the hood together.