Kathleen Culebro

Set in 19th-century Mexico, DOLORES, WHO NOW KNOWS EVERYTHING follows the title character, a woman snatched back from the brink of death when her unfaithful husband, Santiago, makes a desperate bargain with God. Revived, Dolores returns with extraordinary knowledge gained during her near-death vision: She can cure illnesses, repair anything, and even recall every great human accomplishment across time. As Dolores’s miraculous knowledge slips away, she races to preserve the stunning works of art of every genre she momentarily glimpsed and that she knows were destroyed by censorship, war, and natural disasters.

Meanwhile, Santiago, newly-obsessed with the magic tricks she taught him, dazzles the town with his amateur shows. Their talents, however, overshadow the vain parish priest, Padre Justino. Egged on by Santiago’s former lover, Matilde, Padre Justino imprisons Dolores in the convent-slash-insane-asylum-slash-home-for-unwed-mothers and bans magic altogether. To make matters worse, Matilde has her own designs for Dolores’s new-found knowledge: If Dolores can teach her to make a potion that will allow people to live forever she can sell it and finally have wealth and power (since she can’t seem to land a rich husband).

When he learns that he will be sent to the Amazon Rainforest instead of to Rome for a big promotion (as he had assumed), Padre Justino decides to stage his own near-death experience to access divine wisdom in order to impress the Catholic leadership in Rome. Maybe it’s not too late to convince them to change their minds and make him a Cardinal.

The scheme spirals into chaos: Santiago dies in a botched magic trick, Matilde poisons Justino and escapes the town, ready to live the life laid out for the priest. Dolores, meanwhile, arrives too late to save any of them…or herself.

The play grapples (somewhat absurdly) with the questions of what it means to live a meaningful life and the choices we make when we realize life isn’t going to turn out quite the way we planned.

When Juan Garcia returns home to Oaxaca after years at the university in Mexico City, he’s ready to make an impression and take over as the fanciest, smartest, richest man in town. Never mind that he’s none of those things; he plans to say whatever it takes to impress everyone—particularly the lady he has set his sights on (whose identity he has gotten completely wrong). But the shop owners want to be paid, the servants are tired of working day and night and eventually the truth is going to come out. Based on LA VERDAD SOSPECHOS by Juan Ruiz de Alarcón--but much less sexist and, we hope, much funnier.

People say that there is someone for everyone, but when fate sends a letter to every person on Earth revealing their one true love, Meg is left alone without a match. Confused and hurt while her boyfriend flies across the world to meet his new love, she turns to her family and finds that she may just be better off without a soul mate. Smart Pretty Funny is a provocative and captivating comedy about love, loneliness, motherhood, and the idea that life never turns out the way you planned.

"remarkably polished and funny...The clever premise, punctuated with Breaking News T.V. broadcasts, is a springboard for thoughtful journeys into what relationships are or should be." Dallas Morning News

LA LLORONA is a story of an American executive assigned by his company to open a fast food restaurant in Mexico City. He and his pregnant wife, a college art professor, move into the home of Carlos and Irma who are forced to rent their family home in order to support themselves. "Clearly a writer of promise." NYTimes