Tyler Rocío Ecoña

Tyler Rocío Ecoña is a Peruvian-American theatre artist & storyteller whose work draws from their Quechua heritage beyond borders/binaries, towards landscapes of Indigiqueer joy & resilience.

As a writer, they have been a resident at the KC VSA Playwright Discovery Program, a Silver Medal recipient at the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards, an intern at Cartoon Network Studios, and an apprentice at InterAct Theatre Company. Ecoña was a 2025 playwright finalist for Baltimore Center Stage's Trans History Project. Her play FELIPILLO won the 2025 Beacon Theatre Award for playwriting, and a new play of hers is forthcoming in Methuen Drama's Book of Trans Plays, Volume 3 (Bloomsbury).

As an actor and dramaturg, Ecoña's work has been developed by Temple University’s Institute on Disabilities...

Tyler Rocío Ecoña is a Peruvian-American theatre artist & storyteller whose work draws from their Quechua heritage beyond borders/binaries, towards landscapes of Indigiqueer joy & resilience.

As a writer, they have been a resident at the KC VSA Playwright Discovery Program, a Silver Medal recipient at the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards, an intern at Cartoon Network Studios, and an apprentice at InterAct Theatre Company. Ecoña was a 2025 playwright finalist for Baltimore Center Stage's Trans History Project. Her play FELIPILLO won the 2025 Beacon Theatre Award for playwriting, and a new play of hers is forthcoming in Methuen Drama's Book of Trans Plays, Volume 3 (Bloomsbury).

As an actor and dramaturg, Ecoña's work has been developed by Temple University’s Institute on Disabilities, Power Street Theatre, In Full Bloom at HERE Arts Center, Philly Women's Theatre Festival, Susquehanna University, Philadelphia Theatre Company, Cannonball Festival, Azukafest, and more.

They are a member of The Dramatists Guild, Latinx Playwrights' Circle, and Latinx in Animation. She is also the editor-in-chief of Qhariwarmikuna, a multilingual literary magazine of QT/2S+ Andean art (@qhariwarmikuna). BFA: The University of the Arts.

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Scripts

MACHU PICCHU PLAY

by Tyler Rocío Ecoña

1
Cast Size
4
Genre
experimental,
horror

(FULL LENGTH - 90 MIN) In a future where climate change has sunk the coasts and blood rains from the sky, a tour group climbs Machu Picchu, Perú despite an ongoing land dispute. Centuries earlier, on the same mountain, a third-gender oracle predicts the collapse of the Inca Empire and life as they know it. No one knows about the creature stalking the highlands in the shape of one 1924 Republican Senator of...

(FULL LENGTH - 90 MIN) In a future where climate change has sunk the coasts and blood rains from the sky, a tour group climbs Machu Picchu, Perú despite an ongoing land dispute. Centuries earlier, on the same mountain, a third-gender oracle predicts the collapse of the Inca Empire and life as they know it. No one knows about the creature stalking the highlands in the shape of one 1924 Republican Senator of Connecticut, but they're about to find out.

A speculative, surreal folk horror investigating the United States' role in the erasure of Indigenous trans history, and the ways we've survived what others call "apocalypse".

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UNFAIR ADVANTAGE

by Tyler Rocío Ecoña

1
Cast Size
6
Genre
adventure,
drama,
fantasy,
movement/physical,
political

(FULL LENGTH - 60 MIN) When Mia Jonas made history as the first trans girl on a women’s collegiate swim team, she expected backlash. What she didn’t expect was for the NCAA to tweak participation guidelines after every race she won. No one cares until the targeted anti-trans rules backfire on other participants, and Mia finds herself in the midst of it. How and why should womanhood be defined? What does it mean...

(FULL LENGTH - 60 MIN) When Mia Jonas made history as the first trans girl on a women’s collegiate swim team, she expected backlash. What she didn’t expect was for the NCAA to tweak participation guidelines after every race she won. No one cares until the targeted anti-trans rules backfire on other participants, and Mia finds herself in the midst of it. How and why should womanhood be defined? What does it mean to be an intersectional woman? And do the rules apply to mermaids?

Forthcoming publication in Methuen Drama's Book of Trans Plays, Volume 3 (Bloomsbury), May 2026.

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FELIPÍLLO

by Tyler Rocío Ecoña

2
Cast Size
7—10
Genre
comedy,
docudrama/historic,
tragedy

(FULL LENGTH - 60 MIN) In Peru, the nickname "Felipillo" is given to public figures who are considered national traitors (think "Benedict Arnold"). In this play, an investigation ensues. Based on the true history of a Native servant who translated for Spanish conquistadors during the invasion of the Inca Empire, we follow Felipillo and a chorus of historians examining his legacy through a time-bending...

(FULL LENGTH - 60 MIN) In Peru, the nickname "Felipillo" is given to public figures who are considered national traitors (think "Benedict Arnold"). In this play, an investigation ensues. Based on the true history of a Native servant who translated for Spanish conquistadors during the invasion of the Inca Empire, we follow Felipillo and a chorus of historians examining his legacy through a time-bending reconstruction of his life. The mainstream story still circulated in Peru frames Felipillo as a traitor to his country. But exactly how much was lost in translation? Who determines what goes down in history, and is it possible to re-write?

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