Alicia Margarita Olivo

[FULL-LENGTH PLAY] Belén and Andy, childhood friends-turned-lovers, find themselves stranded off of an abandoned South Texas highway on their way to Mexico. They're trapped in a liminal space, where only the two of them exist without the need for food, water, or sleep. Soon enough, the couple's buried resentments and secrets start to rise, culminating in one last celebration. Inspired by comic book aesthetics, Count Yourself Among the Lucky is a confrontation of violence, trauma, and, of course, love.

Commissioned by AlterTheater Ensemble in San Rafael, CA. Part of Telatúlsa's #telatuesdays virtual readings series. Workshopped with The WorkShop Theater as part of their Winter 2021 Workshop Intensive. Part of Stages' 2022 Sin Muros: A Borderless Teatro Festival.

[FULL-LENGTH PLAY] Pasadena, Texas, 1973. Down the street from the famous Gilley's country-western night club, an all-night diner has revamped itself into a Honky Tonk that celebrates “Pasadena Pride and Houston Heritage.” This should be great news for Freddy Espinoza, the diner’s oddball fry cook, a third generation Tejano and Pasadenian who jumps at the chance to put his old family recipes on the menu and cement his family story into the history of his hometown. But when he’s told his family’s food is not “on concept,” Freddy bypasses his boss by creating a secret menu that’s too good to stay secret for long. And once one secret comes out, many others follow. With the help of a Brechtian chorus, ghosts, radio hosts, some historical reenactors who can't help breaking character, and Willie Nelson, Secret Menu takes the audience on a tasting tour of some lesser known History.

Recipient of the 2025 Local History Play Commission from San Jacinto College South Theatre & Film.

[TEN-MINUTE PLAY] Two black-bellied whistling ducks talk about the weather, im/migration, and home.

small histories was written for magnolia city: meditations on climate change and Houston, an evening of staged readings and poetry presented at the 2026 Mix-MATCH Festival in Houston, TX.

[TEN-MINUTE PLAY] Güero invites his new friend Mayel over to practice football during one of the hottest forty days of the year, the canícula. Mayel tells him about how hard it is to go outside nowadays, and Güero shows her how to step out of the door, one kick at a time. A short play & mini sequel to YOUR MILEAGE MAY VARY about friendship, “sort-of” hate crimes, gender, and the beautiful game.

[FULL-LENGTH PLAY] Mayel has been inside all summer. When she's not too busy practicing her fencing skills, she's haunted by the ghost of her favorite Mexican character actor, Lefty González. As she ventures outside her home for the first time, Mayel runs into her former best friend, Alaska. Throughout the day, they try rebuilding their friendship over music, movies, and aguas de melón. Your Mileage May Vary is a slice-of-life about masculinity, duty, Mexicanidad, respectability politics, and learning to bite back.

Developed with the 2021-2022 Rec Room Arts Writers Group cohort. Received staged reading at Rec Room Arts in August 2022.

[FULL-LENGTH PLAY] [NEW DRAFT AS OF 10.8.25]
Ten years after graduating high school, Dee seeks solutions to a decade-long grief. Veronica and Daniel struggle to reconnect with Dee while denying their own guilt around the events that led to their mutual friend Laurel fleeing their Houston suburb. As Dee begins a new play as a tribute to her, reality begins to fracture as the dubious ethics of bringing her back from the past arise.

Developed with the Company One Theater’s 2021 C1 PlayLab Circuit Volt Lab and with The Workshop Theater's Spring 2022 Workshop Intensive.

[FULL-LENGTH PLAY] As Hurricane Harvey’s landfall approaches Houston, Salomé Salas is stranded with their estranged Mexican immigrant family. Tensions are high as their parents, Humberto and Yolanda, grapple with their return, unaware that Salomé has been expelled from college after a violent mental breakdown. Magdalena, Salomé’s sister, tries to keep them from recklessly sabotaging their familial relationships. Jealousy and resentment permeate Humberto and Salomé’s interactions, while Yolanda falls deeper into despair and disgust. As Harvey rages on, Magdalena documents her family’s life, violence, and trauma in a series of audio recordings.

Funded by The Pamela Daniels Fellowship. Part of Teatro Chelsea's 2021 A-Típico: A New Latinx Play Festival. Finalist for the 2022 Del Shores Foundation Writers Search. Semi-Finalist for the O'Neill National Playwrights Conference in 2023.

[TEN-MINUTE PLAY] A young Mexican American woman from Houston grapples with her place in the family before getting married in Mexico.

[TEN-MINUTE PLAY] Two friends, Jackie and Jonathan, make their way to a house party in Jamaica Plain on Halloween night, meeting up with Jackie’s boyfriend Sean on the way there. This play is also about those awful friendships in your life that you just don’t know how to excise from your soul, or your love. And about wanting whiteness.

[TEN-MINUTE PLAY] A Texas highway rest stop sees the relationship between two old friends over the course of two decades. A sort-of love story at the end of a world.

Written for and received a staged reading for Rec Room Arts' 10-Minute Play Festival in December 2022, produced by fellow Houston playwrights Nicole Zimmerer and Christian Gill.

[ONE-ACT PLAY] Angela isn’t from here, not really. Maybe leaving is the right thing for her to do. Frida wants her to stay, but doesn’t know how to help her. A short play about being a mother, being a daughter, and anxiety.

[ONE-ACT SOLO SHOW] Behold, The Protagonist! The Protagonist is but a mentally ill, Mexican, nonbinary, and a self-described loser stuck in a Dublin Airport bar after she loses her trusty pair of $5 headphones before boarding. A thousand miles from home, sit with her as she struggles with the complexities of human intimacy, white supremacy, shitty dates, and social isolation—you know, the usual. Funded by The Claude Beauclair Fellowship.

[ONE-ACT PLAY] A grizzled elderly Mexican woman crosses the border to see her ailing gay son, whom she had kicked out of her home decades earlier.

[ONE-MINUTE MONOLOGUE] A short monologue about a young queer kid grappling with the manifestation of anxiety and paranoia due to religious guilt. Performed as part of DECISIONS with Wellesley College Theatre in April 2018.

[ONE-ACT PLAY] Two strangers' dreams are intertwined after an ill-fated accident.