Fresh Draft
Opportunity to hear the play on its feet
A large barrier to emerging artists’ development of a play is the echo chamber we often find ourselves in as we write. Having access to professional actors who key into the inter-relationships of your characters is usually something that only happens if you win a reading or if you are established enough to be offered a reading at a theater that supports your work.
The Fresh Draft Series is a program that looks to erase those barriers by having an easily accessible pathway for our community artists to hear their play by professional actors. Normally, a playwright could spend years developing an artists collective of actors, directors, and artistic staff from different theaters to be able to pull together, not only a reading, but trusted feedback on the work.
In our hopes to expedite the development of plays, we offer a program that takes all of that labor off of the playwright so they can focus on their specific process for the development of their play. Playwrights looking to hear a first draft of a play can submit their play directly to our Literary Manager. Our Literary Manager assembles actors, organizes a public reading, and also facilitates a guided feedback session after the reading.
The Last Place To Get Arroz Con Pollo In This Godforsaken World by Andres Santiago Piña
That Must Be The Entrance To Heaven by Franky Gonzalez
Full List of Supported Works
Escobar’s Hippos by Franky Gonzalez
Papito by Dominic Colon
In Pastures Green by Noelle Viñas
Aztec Pirates & The Inequity Of Sacrifice by David Davila
Sancocho by Christin E. Cato
The Dirt Is Fertile by Alisha Espinosa
Reach Out To Me by Franky Gonzalez
The War I Know by Dominic Colon
40 20 by Candido Tirado
How We Got Here by Andres Santiago Piña
The Archive by Alisha Espinosa
El Condor Magico by Noelle Viñas
The Beautiful Land I Seek by Matt Barbot
Betty’s Garage (TV Pilot) by Carmen Rivera
Saturday Morning Cartoons by Iraisa Ann Reilly
Crabs In A Barrel by Michael Leon & Ashely Alvarez
Bartolomé de las Casas Ruins my Pool by Julian Mesri
That Must Be the Entrance to Heaven by Franky Gonzalez
Kansas by Andres Chaves
Calling Time by Christin E. Cato
My Brooklyn by Daniela Gonzalez y Perez
Coquito by Juan Ramirez Jr.
On A Higher Vibration: An Ode To Gay Latin Love
The Jersey Devil Is A Papi Chulo by Iraisa Ann Reilly
Hote Puerto Vallarta by David Davilla
Mijita (As Abuelita And Me) by Daniela Thome
A Skeptic and A Bruja by Rosa Fernadez
Papito by Christian Avila
Angel Y Chupi by Daniela Gonzalez y Perez
When The Earth Moves, We Dance by Nelson Diaz-Marcano
Peaches and King by Gretchen Suarez-Peña
Scissors Under the House by David Davila
The Simbaraboo Two by Phillip Burke
Vamonos by Julissa Contreras
The Girl and The Alien by Karen Loewy Movilla
The Last Place to get Arroz con Pollo in this Godforsaken World by Andres Santiago Piña