When a lifelong New Yorker faces the loss of her Cuban-born mother and her own sense of identity in the process, she digs into her legacy and uncovers the story of her mother's beloved aunt, her own tia-abuela whom she never met. While the family fled Cuba at the time of Castro's revolution, she remained on the island for the love of another Woman—a complicated choice in a less forgiving time.
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2019, Southern Rep Theatre, New Orleans, Louisiana
2018
New Play Exchange
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Realistic
Exploration of two couples and one friend who wrestle wCanadian_European descent_Jewish_Womanith issues of fertility, childlessness, what makes a strong relationship, and how to deal with the lies necessary to retain a marriage... "over too much wine. What do infertility, religion, toxoplasmosis, and ice-cream have to do with Tulipmania? Maybe more than you think." - from the publisher
Realistic
Don’t Talk to Me Like I’m Your Wife is a play set in 1917 and 2016 about the last 12 hours of alleged spy Mata Hari’s life before she was executed by the French for espionage. We see Mata Hari 12 hours before her execution and then jump to a lecture room in a university where a professor deconstructs the myth of the notorious alleged WW1 spy while sparring with a student who refuses to accept his opinion of the woman. Alternately about slut shaming, cultural appropriation, racism and differing opinions on what it means to be a feminist,
