CAST
Sarah Hayon* (she/her) – Eugenia Silva
Alejandra Escalante* (she/her) – Mercedes Silva
Rodney Gardiner* (he/him) – Gabe Diaz
Francisco Arcilla (he/him) – José Portillo
Regina Morones (she/her) – Soledad Portillo
Max Forman-Mullin* (he/him) – Jeff Reavis
*Actors’ Equity Association
Noelle Viñas is a playwright, educator, and theater-artist from Springfield, Virginia and Montevideo, Uruguay. She is a resident playwright at Playwrights Foundation, was a 2019 Djerassi Resident Artist, and is an Emerson College alumna. Her play Derecho won the John Gassner Playwriting Award, was a 2019 Jane Chambers Award Honorable Mention, along with being a Semi-Finalist for both the Playwrights Realm Writing Fellowship and the 2019 Primary Stages Staged Reading Series. La Profesora, her one-woman show starring Virginia Blanco, was commissioned & produced by TheatreFirst and is currently in development for a podcast called Abuelito with We Rise Production. Past favorite jobs include being HowlRound’s first student staff assistant at Emerson College, running Annandale High School’s theater program alongside Theatre Without Borders in Virginia, and self-producing her play Apocalypse, Please in with Kevin Vincenti in San Francisco. She currently resides in Brooklyn, where she is an MFA Playwriting candidate at Brooklyn College under Erin Courtney and is a proud member of the NYC Latinx Playwrights Circle.
Nicholas C. Avila is very excited to be returning to Playwright’s Foundation and honored to be participating in Jessica Bird Beza’s first BAPF. Nicholas‘ previous BAPF experience was directing JC Lee’s Pookie Goes Grenading, also having worked on other Playwrights Foundation projects including Noelle Viñas’ Derecho. Nicholas has directed and/or developed plays at theatre’s that include Oregon Shakespeare Festival, The Denver Center, La Jolla Playhouse, The Chance Theater, and South Coast Repertory to name a few. Nicholas is a graduate of the Yale School of Drama.
Laura Brueckner is a Bay Area-based dramaturg specializing in world premieres. She’s been honored to support the WPs of Lauren Gunderson and Margot Melcon’s Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley and The Wickhams: Christmas at Pemberley, plus Jen Silverman’s Wink, at MTC; Idris Goodwin’s The Way the Mountain Moved at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival; and Christopher Chen’s A Tale of Autumn and The Late Wedding, Dipika Guha’s Mechanics of Love, and Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig’s [4:10] Gone at Crowded Fire Theater. She also has served as a researcher for branching-narrative video games, including James Cameron’s Titanic. She believes that playwrights are superheroes.