Bernardo Cubría

Bernardo Cubría is a Mexican playwright/screenwriter who lives in Los Angeles. His play Crabs in a Bucket won the 2024 Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Writing. His play The Play You Want premiered at L.A.’s Road Theatre in 2022, garnering Cubría both a Stage Raw Award and a Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle nomination for Playwriting. It received its regional premiere at Milagro Theatre in Portland in 2023. In 2019, Cubría was nominated for the Ovation, Stage Raw and Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Best Playwright awards for his play The Giant Void In My Soul. Other playwriting awards include the Smith Prize for Political Theater. For film, he penned the feature screenplay Like It Used to Be and Guerrero which Gina Rodriguez is attached to direct and star in, and he was a...

Bernardo Cubría is a Mexican playwright/screenwriter who lives in Los Angeles. His play Crabs in a Bucket won the 2024 Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Writing. His play The Play You Want premiered at L.A.’s Road Theatre in 2022, garnering Cubría both a Stage Raw Award and a Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle nomination for Playwriting. It received its regional premiere at Milagro Theatre in Portland in 2023. In 2019, Cubría was nominated for the Ovation, Stage Raw and Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Best Playwright awards for his play The Giant Void In My Soul. Other playwriting awards include the Smith Prize for Political Theater. For film, he penned the feature screenplay Like It Used to Be and Guerrero which Gina Rodriguez is attached to direct and star in, and he was a 2023 Sundance Screenwriters Lab fellow for the screenplay Kill Yr Idols which he cowrote and that Carlos Lopez Estrada is attached to direct. He was also a writer on Season 3 of Acapulco on Apple +.

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Scripts

The Hispanic/Latino/Latina/Latinx/Latine Vote

by Bernardo Cubría

5
Cast Size
6
Genre
comedy,
drama,
political,
satire

University Professor Paola Aguilar is drowning in debt from years of fertility treatments. So when THE Political Party offers her a substantial paycheck to help them understand the Hispanic/Latino/Latina/Latinx/Latine Vote, she reluctantly takes the job. Can she help these political strategists understand all of the nuances of her community to save the election? Or will her own journey ultimately be more...

University Professor Paola Aguilar is drowning in debt from years of fertility treatments. So when THE Political Party offers her a substantial paycheck to help them understand the Hispanic/Latino/Latina/Latinx/Latine Vote, she reluctantly takes the job. Can she help these political strategists understand all of the nuances of her community to save the election? Or will her own journey ultimately be more important than who controls the White House?

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The Play You Want

by Bernardo Cubría

15
Cast Size
8
Genre
comedy,
dark comedy,
satire

Fed-up by the theatre world's desires to box him in, Mexican playwright Bernardo Cubría sarcastically pitches “Nar-Cocos” a play about drug dealers on Dia de los Muertos. Much to his surprise, the Public Theatre picks it up. With financial pressures mounting and a newborn at home, this is his chance at a commercial success. But when Scott Rudin offers him a Broadway run on the condition he further exploit his...

Fed-up by the theatre world's desires to box him in, Mexican playwright Bernardo Cubría sarcastically pitches “Nar-Cocos” a play about drug dealers on Dia de los Muertos. Much to his surprise, the Public Theatre picks it up. With financial pressures mounting and a newborn at home, this is his chance at a commercial success. But when Scott Rudin offers him a Broadway run on the condition he further exploit his identity and the headlines, he must decide just how much he’s willing to compromise in order to finally be accepted.

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Crabs in a Bucket

by Bernardo Cubría

2
Cast Size
4
Genre
comedy,
commedia dell'arte,
dark comedy,
satire,
tragedy

Amargo and Pootz are two bitter crabs living in a shucking bucket. They spend their days talking chit about the crabs that got out, the ones who couldn't take it, and the losers who still live among them. When a new crab arrives filled with hope and change, they are faced with who they once were and their incessant dream of getting the shuck out.

Amargo and Pootz are two bitter crabs living in a shucking bucket. They spend their days talking chit about the crabs that got out, the ones who couldn't take it, and the losers who still live among them. When a new crab arrives filled with hope and change, they are faced with who they once were and their incessant dream of getting the shuck out.

The Giant Void In My Soul

by Bernardo Cubría

6
Cast Size
4—11
Genre
satire

When Fool 1 discovers the Giant Void in their soul, they and their loyal best friend Fool 2 set out on a Quixotic quest to fill it. Will food and alcohol do it? What about jobs, marriage, procreation, or even self-reflection? Can anything fill this damn void?!

When Fool 1 discovers the Giant Void in their soul, they and their loyal best friend Fool 2 set out on a Quixotic quest to fill it. Will food and alcohol do it? What about jobs, marriage, procreation, or even self-reflection? Can anything fill this damn void?!

Neighbors: A Fair Trade Agreement

by Bernardo Cubría

9
Cast Size
2
Genre
satire

Meet Joe. Joe lives in a big colorless mansion. Meet Jose. Jose lives in a colorful shack. Joe and Jose live next door to each other, but they are not exactly friends. When Joe has a business proposition for Jose, their uneasy truce is about to get a lot more complicated.

Meet Joe. Joe lives in a big colorless mansion. Meet Jose. Jose lives in a colorful shack. Joe and Jose live next door to each other, but they are not exactly friends. When Joe has a business proposition for Jose, their uneasy truce is about to get a lot more complicated.

The Judgment of Fools

by Bernardo Cubría

1
Cast Size
5
Genre
comedy,
commedia dell'arte,
farce,
immersive,
movement/physical,
pantomime,
parody/spoof,
satire

Please join us for The Judgment of Fools, an interactive night at the theatre where the audience is the star! Equal parts rowdy debauchery, psychological experiment, and vaudevillian circus, this is a live event unlike any other you’ve experienced. Help The Fool and his Friends navigate the explosive terrain of race, social media, and blowjob bonanzas!

Please join us for The Judgment of Fools, an interactive night at the theatre where the audience is the star! Equal parts rowdy debauchery, psychological experiment, and vaudevillian circus, this is a live event unlike any other you’ve experienced. Help The Fool and his Friends navigate the explosive terrain of race, social media, and blowjob bonanzas!

Loop Group: Or Shia Lebeouf's Version

by Bernardo Cubría

1
Cast Size
8
Genre
dark comedy,
parody/spoof,
political,
satire

On a Los Angeles sound stage, seven actors assemble to “loop” or dub background vocals for a Hollywood film about a Mexican narco-trafficker. The day takes a very unexpected turn when the star of the film shows up with an unusual request!

On a Los Angeles sound stage, seven actors assemble to “loop” or dub background vocals for a Hollywood film about a Mexican narco-trafficker. The day takes a very unexpected turn when the star of the film shows up with an unusual request!