…but am I famous yet?

I’m getting tired of being told I’m not special. I was working on an application that’s due on December 3. It’s a fellowship I’ve applied to for the last three years that I’ve been worried I won’t be applicable for soon. The artistic director knows my name and writes very sweet notes on my rejection…

So first, omg, I had no idea how many people read this blog. I always thought this was just something I did to record my progress (and lack thereof) as I navigate what it means to be a playwright. So if you’re reading this of your own volition, thank you! (I also wrote this blog…

Lately, a couple of cousins and I have been trying to answer “what exactly are we?” We heard a lot of stories growing up. On my mom’s side, somehow we’re Black but not really because we’re not Americans. We’re Mexican technically (Afro-Mexican to be specific) but not really because we don’t culturally identify as that….

But now until forever love, I’ll live to dance with you. I’m thinking about breaking up with theatre. I’ve been thinking about it since before the pandemic, to be honest. And I guess, to be specific, I am thinking about breaking up with white American theatre. Like a lot of playwrights right now, I am…

If I can make it, and this is a very big if, this upcoming Friday will be my last day at my day job. I made the impulsive decision to quit and wanted to figure out how to go for what I really wanted. In my mind, I had enough money to cover me through…

I’ve made a lot of absolutely illogical decisions since the pandemic wrecked our whole lives. First, I decided to start a theatre company. And there’s just so much I still don’t know, so much I’m learning, so much that scares me and keeps me up at night. Then I decided to quit my job. My…

Once upon a time, I wrote a list 31 plays you should check out ASAP. (And if you haven’t read those, what are you waiting for?) When I wrote the list, I acknowledged it wasn’t very diverse. I also listed a lot of people I know personally. I’m not saying I don’t know anyone personally…

On Aug 30, 2011, I arrived in Arkansas. My mom and my uncle drove me down from South Bend, IN in a single day. I remember on the drive down being equally terrified and excited. I didn’t really know anyone. I had A LOT of assumptions about Arkansas (most of which turned out to be…

Well, well, well. We’ve hit a new pitch to the apocalypse, haven’t we? To be honest, I almost miss the March/Tiger King era of quarantine. When we were all staying home and yeah things sucked but we had at least some control of our lives. I never thought we’d get to the point where parents…

If you had asked me in March how long I thought we’d be in quarantine, I would’ve said until June. (I wasn’t even really taking it seriously yet in March to be honest.) In June, on my birthday, while I was sitting on my floor, watching Disney movies, drinking Bourbon from the bottle, smoking my…