Margo Rofé

A 17-year-old Esperanza ("Hope" in English) strives to be a writer but, after her Mexican father is picked up and held in an undisclosed location by ICE, she and her African-American mother must move to her mother’s childhood home in “the Hood,” where her world is upturned and forces beyond her control threaten to derail not only her dreams but the hopes of her parents and ancestors. Will these things destroy Esperanza/Hope, or can she change the narrative? The Play, written in English and Spanish (with translations), answers this question while shining a spotlight on the systemic forces and challenges Esperanza (and others like her) must overcome to write HERstory.

A beautiful, powerful, and heartbreaking play about two middle-aged women, one Black and the other Jewish, who renew a college friendship. After decades of having no contact with one another, they meet again when they both are at crossroads in their lives. Each woman bears responsibility for caring for her mother, one a child of the Jim Crow South and the other a Holocaust survivor, and grapples with the challenges of inherited intergenerational trauma and mental illness. Ostensibly confluent, these challenges develop and strengthen their relationship and bring them closer together. Yet, at the same time, they also threaten to drive a wedge between them and keep them apart. While they struggle to jettison the role these legacies play in their own lives and try to forge a future together, outside systemic forces are at play that ultimately put their relationship to the test.

A powerful monologue, at times funny and tragic, that cleverly plays with twists on words and metaphors while taking the audience on a Black woman’s journey as she grapples with and exposes secrets and sexual abuse in her religious family.

A one-act monologue in which a middle-aged woman, quarantined alone during the Covid-19 pandemic, ruminates on dreams deferred, her female sexuality, aging, feelings of isolation and depression, and thoughts of suicide.

A comedic monologue with twists on words, highlighting the treatment people of color confront in the business world, that turns on a cautionary tale of judging a book by its cover (or, in this case, by its color).

A humorous and tragic story of lost opportunity, written in English, Spanish, and Spanglish, that centers on two siblings warring over past family grievances who suddenly find themselves in a race against time for reconciliation during the Covid-19 Pandemic, while highlighting the disparate effects of the Covid virus on marginalized communities of color.