A recipient of the Kennedy Center’s Jean Kennedy Smith Playwriting Award, Richard & Jane & Dick & Sally is a dramatic comedy about brothers, sisters, mothers, and fathers, with sign language, talking dogs, picnic tables, and Snickers bars. When he calls home his estranged sister, Jane, the family must reconcile and make peace with their shared and misunderstood histories before it’s time for him to go. and Sally, who is deaf, while trying to manage a terminal illness that will inevitably leave them orphans. Newly widowed Dick (now going by Richard) is raising his two children, Dick Jr. The classic “Dick & Jane” characters from the ubiquitous 1950s children’s books are grown-up and struggling to stay afloat in a home fractured by grief. Richard & Jane & Dick & Sally by Noah Diaz My Father’s Keeper was created through her time in El Semillero and is a semi-finalist in Quick Silver Theater Company’s 2018 Playwrights of Color Summit. Guadalís is an artistic associate of Black Lives Black Words and Co-Coordinator of the NYC Latinx Playwright Circle. Through a commission from UrbanTheater Chicago and in alliance with CLATA, Not For Sale will have its World Premiere in the Fall of 2018. Tolstoy’s Daughters was selected as one of 50 Playwrights Project’s Best Unproduced Latino/a Plays 2017, was an Honorable Mention in the Kilroys List, and is the 2018-2019 winner of Montclair State University’s New Works Initiative. Tolstoy’s Daughters went on to be selected as a finalist in Quick Silver Theater’s Playwrights of Color Summit in 2016. Her play, Tolstoy’s Daughters, was part of UrbanTheater Company’s 2015 R.A.W. Guadalís Del Carmen’s first play, Blowout, was produced by Aguijón Theater in 2013. The Gonzalez family must define what secrets are worth keeping and which ones aren’t worth the trouble.
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Dealing with the their father’s truth and double life, Mondo and Sofía must learn to lean on each other like never before while figuring out how to best honor their father. Tirsio Armando Gonzalez and his wife Juana are the pillars of their community in the Dominican Republic and in their new home in Chicago, but Tirsio’s sudden death causes family secrets to come to light.
My Father’s Keeper is about family and the secrets we keep to protect our loved ones. My Father’s Keeper by Guadalís del Carmen Read a synopsis of each play and the playwright's bio below: If you cannot join us in Chicago and wish to read the scripts, please email LTC Producer Abigail Vega. We encourage our colleagues, friends, and artistic leaders to widen their perspectives on the new American play, and come experience these thrilling readings at the 2018 LTC Carnaval of New Latinx Work! Individual tickets for readings will be available in July. Between epic worlds that lead to tragic consequences, and polyamorous relationships alongside an ominous slug from family secrets kept to protect the ones we love, to the biting realities of millennial young women between changing minds and changing ways of speaking, to online relationships and deferred dreams, there is something in this lineup for everyone. These plays do not differ from any of the canonical, largely Western European-centered plays often taught at universities and produced largely and widely in American theaters the only differences are the bodies on stage, and the characters' points of view, which more greatly reflect the makeup of our country and our world. Readings of these plays will be presented at the LTC's eleventh convening, the 2018 LTC Carnaval of New Latinx Work hosted by The Theatre School at DePaul University, 19-21 July 2018, in Chicago, IL. These plays were chosen out of approximately 130 plays by a fifteen-person selection committee as those that best represent the breadth and depth of our communities, our triumphs, our challenges, and our negotiation with isolation, celebration, power, familial ties, identity, and more. It is with great excitement that the Selection Committee of the 2018 Latinx Theatre Commons (LTC) Carnaval of New Latinx Work introduces six new Latinx plays to the field by both emerging and established voices in the American theatre!
Top: Alexis Scheer, Marisela Treviño Orta, Noah Diaz (L to R)īottom: Paz Pardo, Carlos Murillo, Guadalís del Carmen (L to R)
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