Inda Craig-Galván

Inda Craig-Galván

Inda Craig-Galván is a Chicagoan living in Los Angeles. Her plays have been developed and performed at Ojai Playwrights Conference, Eugene O'Neill National Playwrights Conference, Oregon Shakespeare Festival Black Swan Lab, The Old Globe, San Francisco Playhouse, Playwrights' Arena, and others. Kesselring Prize, Jeffry Melnick New Playwright Award, Kilroys List, The Mix, Kennedy Center Rosa Parks...
Inda Craig-Galván is a Chicagoan living in Los Angeles. Her plays have been developed and performed at Ojai Playwrights Conference, Eugene O'Neill National Playwrights Conference, Oregon Shakespeare Festival Black Swan Lab, The Old Globe, San Francisco Playhouse, Playwrights' Arena, and others. Kesselring Prize, Jeffry Melnick New Playwright Award, Kilroys List, The Mix, Kennedy Center Rosa Parks Playwriting Award, Humanitas Play Prize, runner-up for the Princess Grace Playwriting Prize. MFA in Theatre, University of Southern California.
www.indacraig-galvan.com

Plays

  • Black Super Hero Magic Mama by Inda Craig-Galván
    Recommendations: 32
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    Cast: 
    8
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    Genre: drama, fantasy + 1 more
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    Keyword: comic books, superhero + 8 more
    Genre: drama, fantasy, political
    Keyword: comic books, superhero, mother, son, BLM, black lives matter, shooting, police, escapism, African American
    FULL-LENGTH: Sabrina Jackson cannot cope with the death of her son by a White cop. Rather than herald the Black Lives Matter movement, Sabrina retreats inward, living out a comic book superhero fantasy. Will Sabrina stay in this dream world or return to reality and mourn her loss?
  • Welcome to Matteson! by Inda Craig-Galván
    Recommendations: 9
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    Cast: 
    4
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    Genre: comedy, dark comedy
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    Keyword: gentrification, Chicago + 7 more
    Genre: comedy, dark comedy
    Keyword: gentrification, Chicago, Suburbs, African American, class, Race, Cabrini, housing, discrimination
    FULL-LENGTH: A suburban couple hosts a welcome-to-the-neighborhood dinner party for their new neighbors — a couple recently (forcibly) relocated from Chicago's roughest housing project — and it's anything but welcoming. A dark intra-racial comedy about reverse gentrification and how we deal with the "other" when the other looks just like us.
  • I Go Somewhere Else by Inda Craig-Galván
    Recommendations: 3
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    Cast: 
    5
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    Genre: drama
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    Keyword: family, Childhood + 8 more
    Genre: drama
    Keyword: family, Childhood, single parent, memory, abuse, trauma, aging, music, African American, black
    FULL-LENGTH: When 70s film prom queen Carrie is your role model, your adolescence must really suck. Will Lanny grow into a well-adjusted adult who can forgive her mother's many faults? Or will she burn the whole town to the ground with telekinetic powers? Well, a girl can dream, can't she? A play full of good music, bad memories, and the hope for a better Scott Baio.
  • a hit dog will holler by Inda Craig-Galván
    Recommendations: 1
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    Cast: 
    2
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    Genre: dark comedy, drama
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    Keyword: racism, Black and African American + 1 more
    Genre: dark comedy, drama
    Keyword: racism, Black and African American, agoraphobia
    FULL-LENGTH: When racism and oppression manifest in a scary, physical form, a social media influencer and a boots-on-the-ground activist form a complex bond of friendship to help each other survive. The play, developed in workshop with the Humanitas Prize, explores the effects of a never-ending barrage of trauma on the women who are continually looked at to lead a movement of resistance and change. What happens...
    FULL-LENGTH: When racism and oppression manifest in a scary, physical form, a social media influencer and a boots-on-the-ground activist form a complex bond of friendship to help each other survive. The play, developed in workshop with the Humanitas Prize, explores the effects of a never-ending barrage of trauma on the women who are continually looked at to lead a movement of resistance and change. What happens when there's no more outside space for the growing monster that is American racism?
  • Tinder... Sucka by Inda Craig-Galván
    Recommendations: 7
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    Cast: 
    4
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    Genre: comedy
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    Keyword: blaxploitation, love + 1 more
    Genre: comedy
    Keyword: blaxploitation, love, crime lords
    10-minute Comedy: A woman and man fall in love, thanks to a Tinder match. Little do they know they just happen to be lifelong rival crime lords. "The Shop Around the Corner" meets 70s blaxploitation. Because.
  • The Boy Who Cried Dragon by Inda Craig-Galván
    Recommendations: 4
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    Cast: 
    5–6
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    Genre: comedy, young audiences
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    Keyword: fib, son + 2 more
    Genre: comedy, young audiences
    Keyword: fib, son, mother, dragon
    ONE-ACT TYA: Everyone has had it with Travis and his tall tales—his teachers, his schoolmates, even his mom. When Travis is given time off (aka school suspension), the park becomes his school-away-from-school. He has everything he needs: books, calculator, a dragon. Dragon?! How can this notorious fibber get anyone to believe him? Based on the fable The Boy Who Cried Wolf, this story of a boy and his dragon is...
    ONE-ACT TYA: Everyone has had it with Travis and his tall tales—his teachers, his schoolmates, even his mom. When Travis is given time off (aka school suspension), the park becomes his school-away-from-school. He has everything he needs: books, calculator, a dragon. Dragon?! How can this notorious fibber get anyone to believe him? Based on the fable The Boy Who Cried Wolf, this story of a boy and his dragon is told with humor… and with a much happier ending.
  • Rules of the Debate by Inda Craig-Galván
    Recommendations: 1
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    Cast: 
    3
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    Genre: drama, young audiences
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    Keyword: school shooting, guns + 4 more
    Genre: drama, young audiences
    Keyword: school shooting, guns, high school, teenagers, debate, education
    ONE-ACT TYA: A troubled teen engages in one final high school debate, in which the winner gets to live.