
MÓNICA SÁNCHEZ
FULL LENGTH Plays
RUBI X: # her too
3W 3M
Its nineteen seventy-funk. Rubi, is fifteen and precocious beyond her years. Everything her mother says she can't do “under my roof,” she does “on the roof.”
LOS DREAMERS
5-7 Actors
Los Dreamers is a political rom-com. Scoobi is an undocumented-law-student-love-child of the Zapatista rebellion. Petra, her mother and former revolutionary is also undocumented. Scoobi and Petra conspire to make it possible for Scoobi to complete her law degree through a marriage-of-inconvenience to Dylan, an “all-American citizen”. This odd trio navigates personal and political borders under the looming threat of deportation.
CROSSTOWN 88
1W 1M
An unlikely friendship ensues between the ‘YOUNG MAN’ and the ‘WOMAN’ while captive on a bus ride across the city on a late, late night. It is a journey traversing barriers of fear, suspicion and simple human truths.
FROM THE CHRONICLES
of ODISIA SANCHEZ
1 W
A contemporary odyssey through latitudes of heart and mind. Odisia (the accidental existentialist) and Lázaro, a shark fisherman, encapsulate the contradictions of an unlikely love affair that culminates in a moment of life and death in a village by the sharkful sea.
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NO SWAMP LIKE HOME
6 Actors
A bilingual one-act journey for the young and young at heart.
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GO, GO GENTLE
2 W 1 M
An existential journey cloaked as a road trip. Unbeknownst to Samuel, his mother is dying of cancer and has chosen Oregon, a “right to die” state, as her final destination. Along for the ride, (in the self-driving rental car) is “Maya," the ghost of Samuel’s last live-in lover, dead by suicide.
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