Coco Justino

Coco Justino (she/they) is a multidisciplinary theatre artist based in Seattle. As an actor, you may have seen her in Book-It Repertory's The Bonesetter's Daughter or in Village Theatre's Festival of New Works in Perpetual Sunshine & The Ghost Girls. Coco's original plays Rat Cage, The White Gaze, and The Last Rites of Uncle Manny have been developed and/or mounted at Cornish College of the Arts, 18th & Union, and The Underground Theater and in the Distillery Festival at Seattle Public Theatre respectively. She has also been a Finalist for Pork-Filled Productions' Unleashed Festival for SheNYC, SheLA & SheATL's Summer Festival. Holding a BFA in Acting/Original Works from Cornish College of The Arts, Coco's storytelling is greatly influenced by her intersectional racial and sexual...

Coco Justino (she/they) is a multidisciplinary theatre artist based in Seattle. As an actor, you may have seen her in Book-It Repertory's The Bonesetter's Daughter or in Village Theatre's Festival of New Works in Perpetual Sunshine & The Ghost Girls. Coco's original plays Rat Cage, The White Gaze, and The Last Rites of Uncle Manny have been developed and/or mounted at Cornish College of the Arts, 18th & Union, and The Underground Theater and in the Distillery Festival at Seattle Public Theatre respectively. She has also been a Finalist for Pork-Filled Productions' Unleashed Festival for SheNYC, SheLA & SheATL's Summer Festival. Holding a BFA in Acting/Original Works from Cornish College of The Arts, Coco's storytelling is greatly influenced by her intersectional racial and sexual identities as well as her love for folk and rock music and 90s/Early 2000s reality TV.

Scripts

The Last Rites of Uncle Manny

by Coco Justino

Synopsis

When Claudia Dalog has to crash at her college-aged daughter's apartment to be present for her estranged brother as he ails in a coma, memories, secrets, and the expectations of their Filipino Catholic familial traditionalism threaten the agency and individuality of not only Claudia, but her daughter and brother as well.

When Claudia Dalog has to crash at her college-aged daughter's apartment to be present for her estranged brother as he ails in a coma, memories, secrets, and the expectations of their Filipino Catholic familial traditionalism threaten the agency and individuality of not only Claudia, but her daughter and brother as well.

Rat Cage

by Coco Justino

Synopsis

A young Filipina writer struggles to define her identity both in her real life as well as in a capitalist nightmare alternate reality where half-rat-half-business-people aim to buy her pain.

A young Filipina writer struggles to define her identity both in her real life as well as in a capitalist nightmare alternate reality where half-rat-half-business-people aim to buy her pain.