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San Diego Repertory Theatre and Amigos del REP are proud to announce the lineup when it comes to Fourth Annual San Diego REP Latinx brand brand New Enjoy Festival streamed online that is live 4-6, 2020. Below could be the routine associated with the 2020 Latinx New Enjoy Festival like the four readings that are staged the event showcase creation of Spanking Machine.

Festival passes will soon be available. We very appreciate the work of our Latinx brand New Enjoy Festival designers. Therefore we suggest that $50 is a fair value price for this year’s festival pass that we can continue to support the festival and its artists. Nevertheless, it really is incredibly important to us that anybody who desires to access the event and also the performs presented has the capacity to do this. Please feel free to choose a cost choice, between $0 and $100, that best suits you along with your circumstances that are current. Information about how to look at the readings, spotlight performance as well as other occasions should be contained in your purchase verification e-mail.

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All times detailed are PDT.

Friday, September 4th 4:00pm Directing Panel*5:00pm Machine training by Francisco Mendoza7:00pm Opening Reception*

Saturday, September 5th 11:00am Designer Showcase*12:00pm Sapience by Diana Burbano2:00pm Dramaturgy Panel*3:00pm Extreme Home Makeover by Makasha Copeland6:00pm Spanking device written and done by Marga Gomez

Sunday, September 6th11:00am Frontera Project Panel*12:00pm Historical Context Panel*1:00pm The Cucuy Will See You by Jaymes Sanchez3:00pm Closing Playwrights Panel*

*Panel explanations provided below play summaries

‘Machine Learning’ – Friday Sept. 4 at 5:00 p.m.When his estranged, alcoholic dad is identified as having liver cancer tumors, computer scientist Jorge dreams up a nursing application to control the condition in the stead. Given that device’s abilities grow, nonetheless, the alternative of leaving it responsible for the procedure becomes more genuine, forcing Jorge to reckon along with his duties as being a son—and as being a creator.

Francisco Mendoza (Playwright) can be a writer that is argentinian surviving in Brooklyn, NY after investing many years in Brazil. Their work is presented or developed during the Lark, the brand new Group, the MacDowell Colony, and Northern Stage, amongst others. Their scripts consist of stage plays device Learning (Neukom Institute Literary Arts Award for Playwriting), Tooth for Tooth (Finalist, Sundance Theater Lab; Finalist, Princess Grace Playwriting Fellowship), and Patriarch; TV pilot Land Most Loved (Finalist, Sundance Lab); and podcast Hairy thighs Hannah’s Feminist Quarter-Hour, which he co-wrote and directed following a effective kickstarter campaign. MFA – Tisch class regarding the Arts.

‘Sapience’ – Saturday, Sept. 5 at 12:00 p.m.Elsa is a health care provider of Primatology who may have up-until-now, effectively concealed her diagnosis of Autism. This woman is presently working at a zoo with an orangutan called Wookie, whom she thinks is with the capacity of talking a language that is human. Elsa’s 12 year old nephew, A.J., is additionally Autistic, it is struggling to communicate verbally. A.J. and Wookie soon find that they could communicate in mysterious means, which entirely disrupts Elsa’s research and theories. A.J. shows Wookie that she actually is mortal and certainly will perish someday. This is certainly a brand name concept that is new the pet, and Wookie falls into despair to the level of near death. Wookie’s death could be catastrophic to Elsa. This woman is obligated to confront the worth of A.J.’s mode of interaction and her reluctance to embrace her own Autism.

Diana Burbano (Playwright), A colombian immigrant, is an Equity actor, a playwright and a training musician at Southern Coast Repertory and Breath of Fire Latina Theatre Ensemble. Functions: Ghosts of Bogota, payment by AlterTheater, champion NuVoices Festival Actors Theatre of Charlotte, Policarpa, Semi-finalist Eugene O’Neill Playwrights Festival 2018, Finalist Bay Area Playwrights Festival 2018, Oregon Shakespeare Festival Brown Swan lab 2017, Drama League harsh Draft series May 2017, Honorable Mention, Jane Chambers Award 2017, Parsnip Ship 2017. Fabulous Monsters, Latinx New Play Festival, north park REP 2017, Festival 51 2016 champion Picture me personally Rollin’, 35th William Inge Festival, Inkfest/2cents, Silueta, (about Ana Mendieta), with Tom and Chris Shelton, Caliban’s Island (TYA) 2017 Headwaters brand brand New Enjoy Festival at Creede Repertory. (Published by YouthPLAYS). Linda had been written for the 365 Females per year task and has now been featured much more than 20 festivals within the a year ago, including Center Theatre Group’s community collection show. She had been a journalist for Center Theatre Group’s Chisme y Queso series, Rogue Artists Plummer Park task and Kaiser Permanente’s academic touring show. She’s got a payment with change Theatre in San Rafael and it is section of Center Theatre Group’s Writers Workshop for 2018-2019.

‘Extreme Home Makeover’ – Saturday Sept. 5 at 3:00 p.m.Every 12 months, a huge number of families submit an application for a real possibility tv program that promises a rags-to-riches change for America’s many citizens that are deserving. With such high competition, the Vega family members must fight in order to make their video clip application be noticed. Makasha Copeland’s gritty comedy begs the concern – in some sort of where many get therefore little, just how much do wonders expense?

Makasha Copeland (Playwright) is really a playwright and comedian whoever work is targeted on the televisual, Tejano history, and positionality for the market. Original works consist of Extreme Residence Makeover, an earnest satire that received the 2019 Agnes Nixon honor. Copeland’s farce Fabuloso! received a reading that is workshopped Vertigo Productions. Also, Copeland is just a experienced improviser, performing at Northwestern University with The Titanic Players, Out Da Box, free affair sites and Mee-Ow, along with shows at iO and 2nd City with femme design group Resting Witch Face. They’ve been a graduate that is recent Northwestern University where they learned Playwriting, Latinx Studies, and majored in Theatre.

“No Zoom window could perhaps support the personality that is outsize of Gomez” -New York Times

Panel information: All designers associated with engagement occasions are down the page.

Starting Reception – Sept. 4 at 7:00 p.m. remain for casual networking, games, and music friday. Meet up with the event designers and interact with other theater experts.

Designer Showcase – Sept. 5 at 11:00 a.m.Meet a range of BIPOC developers, see and sample their design work saturday. Hosted by Christopher Scott Murillo.

Shutting Playwrights Panel – Sept. 6 at 3:00 p.m.San Diego REP Literary Manager Danielle Ward will lead a discussion utilizing the 2020 event playwrights sunday. The playwrights will talk about their composing processes, the way they approach doing work in a rehearsal that is virtual after which the discussion will available to market concerns.

Dates and times during the occasions are susceptible to alter with no warning. Check the big event organizer’s web site when it comes to most updated routine before going to.

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