Playmaking Credits
El Rey del Pollo by Shakespeare and Anna Skidis Vargas
First reading with Theatre Nuevo, cuts/initial pass by Amanda Wales with concept by Anna Skidis Vargas (2018)
Zoom reading with The University of Texas at Austin directed by Emily Garcia (2020)
Echo Reads (New Plays by BIPOC Women+ Playwrights) with Echo Theatre (Dallas) directed by Bethany Mejorado
El Rey del Pollo is a Shakespearean telenovela that’s loosely based on King Lear, but it’s a lot shorter and a lot sillier! Reymundo Lear is about to retire from his fried chicken empire, and he is leaving everything to his three daughters. But things aren’t as easy as they seem! Cordelia gets disinherited, and Gisela and Raquel hike the prices! El Rey del Pollo features a hungry old man, essential oils, a giant chicken suit, and all the family drama you can eat!
Lady Party by Anna Skidis Vargas
First workshop performance as an audio play at the Cohen New Works Festival at The University of Texas at Austin (April 2021). Available by request.
Lady Party is a raunchy radio play about sex, multi-level marketing, mixed identity, and lactose intolerance. Lady Party takes you through an Entirely Romantic sales consultant’s roster of vibrators and awkward dates. You’ll laugh! You’ll cry! You’ll... maybe want to buy a bunch of dildos?
Lloronx developed with the ensemble
First workshop performance at the Cohen New Works Festival at The University of Texas at Austin (2019)
Lloronx is a darkly funny, bilingual, feminist reimagining of the folktale of La Llorona. The play takes each of these iconic figures, La Llorona, Malinche, and the Virgin Mary out of their own time and puts them around a kitchen table with plenty of wine, conchas, and chisme. Lloronx is a partially devised play with music and movement, that explores and dissects the intersectionality of Latinx identities.
HELL developed with the ensemble
First workshop performance with Theatre Nuevo (2017)
HELL is a devised piece with movement and music that hilariously juxtaposes several religious and cultural perceptions of the afterlife, as well as our own personal hells. This play follows the last moments of three human’s lives, and their subsequent transitions into hell. HELL explores issues of suicide, illness, suppressed queerness, alcoholism, emotional abuse, and you know… burning for all eternity.
This is Not Funny developed with the ensemble
First workshop performance at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville - XFest (2011)
Second workshop performance Stray Dog Theatre, St. Louis (2011)
Third workshop performance with Theatre Nuevo (2015)
This is Not Funny is a comedic exploration of how fun and curiosity change as we get older as told in a series of vignettes. It features real news, fake children, a clown, and bad poetry. What more could you want?
