CAST

Vanessa Barrantes, Estrella Esparza-Johnson*, Brady Morales-Woolery*, Francisco Rodriguez, Mary Ann Rogers *Actors’ Equity Association

Saturday Mourning Cartoons

While mourning the death of their younger brother Marty, Jessica and Benny find themselves divided on the choice of putting their abuela, Yolanda, in a nursing home. When social distancing forces them to visit only from outside of her window, the millennial siblings must confront the pains of their past to heal their own shattered relationship across chasms of belief, the isolation of loss, and the complexity of parental expectations. This imaginatively poetic family drama dives deep into mourning and healing across three generations of unbreakable bonds.

 

Playwright
Iraisa Ann Reilly

Iraisa Ann Reilly (she/ella) is a Jersey-born artist passionate about bilingual stories. Select full-length plays include Good Cuban Girls (Teatro del Sol, at The Arden Theatre), The Jersey Devil is a Papi Chulo (Yale Drama Series Shortlist 2022, KCACTF) Madame Anastasia’s Crystal Ball (Semifinalist, Bay Area Playwright’s Festival 2021), One Day Old (Philadelphia Fringe, New York Classical Theatre Finalist, Rorschach Theatre Finalist), and A Beginner’s Guide to Interpreting Aphasia (writer/performer, Philadelphia’s Solow Fest). Her work has been developed with Theatre Exile, The New Harmony Project, The Chain Theatre and The Latinx Playwright’s Circle. Iraisa Ann is a Yes and Laughter Lab Finalist, 2022, and was semifinalist for the Page 73 Fellowship, 2019. As a Development Studio Fellow with NYU’S Production Lab, Iraisa Ann wrote her original screenplay, La Reina Del Bronx (Winner, Fusion Film Festival, 2022). MFA in Dramatic Writing, NYU, BA Theatre and English University of Notre Dame.

TICKETS SUN JULY 31, 12pm PT
(In Person Reading at Potrero Stage) FRI AUG 05, 6:30pm PT
(In Person Reading at Potrero Stage) FRI AUG 05, 6:30pm PT
(Online Stream)

DIRECTOR: KARINA GUTIÉRREZ

DRAMATURG: NICKY MARTINEZ

CONTENT EXPERT: TBA

PRODUCERS: TBA

Director
KARINA GUTIÉRREZ
Dramaturg
NICKY MARTINEZ
Program to come.
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