If I Should Wake

THE WAITING ROOM
Written by Grace McLeod 

Billie……………………….Sammy June

Stuck for months in her childhood bedroom, an Instagram celebrity braves her teenage diary.

BODY QUAKES:  a monologue wake
Written by Arianna Basco

SJ………………………….Madeleine Humphries

Can a woman reclaim her body when her former lover returns?

THE RECLAMATION OF MY BLACK ASS IMAGINATION
Written by Larry Powell

Somebody (Voiceover)……Larry Powell
Somebody…………………Jamal Wade

Can someone actually steal your imagination?  Can you imagine it back?

FRANCIS
Written by Boni B. Alvarez

Francis……………………..Jon Viktor Corpuz

An 18-year old surfs the electronic sea only to find that it’s alive.

THEY SAY MY NAME
Written by Inda Craig-Galván

Jackie……………………….Carla Valentine

A woman clings desperately to a pole over an abyss – or should she let go?

CASSANDRA
Written by Alex Alpharaoh

Cassandra………………………….Shanelle Darlene

What sacrifice does it take for a daughter to love her father, and for her father to let her go?

QUICKSAND: A Bardo Monologue
Written by Diana Burbano

Woman………………………………..Diana Burbano

An aging punk chases salvation on the haunted streets of downtown LA.

THE LET GO
Written by Yehuda Hyman

He…………………….…………..Trieu Tran

As their bodies turn to vapor, two strangers attempt a new kind of dance.

Alex Alpharaoh is a multi-disciplined, Award-Winning Performance Artist from Los Angeles, CA. Prior to Covid-19, Alpharaoh was on national tour performing his autobiographical Solo Show titled WET: A DACAmented Journey, which earned him the LADCC 2018 Solo Performance of the Year award. Alpharaoh has been acting professionally for over a decade and has been a lyricist for over 25 years. He is currently in the process of writing his first memoir and is a proud teaching artist with Greenway Arts Alliance.

BONI B. ALVAREZ is a Los Angeles-based actor-playwright.  His plays include Emmylu, America Adjacent, Bloodletting, Fixed, Nicky, Dallas Non-Stop, Dusty de los Santos, Driven, Refuge for a Purple Heart, andRuby, Tragically Rotund.  His plays have been produced at Center Theatre Group – Kirk Douglas Theatre, Echo Theater Company, Coeurage Theatre Company, Skylight Theatre Company, Theatre Rhinoceros, and Playwrights’ Arena.  He is an alum of the CTG Writers’ Workshop, Echo Writer’s Lab, Humanitas Play LA, Moving Arts’ MADlab, the CBS Writers Mentoring Program and the Geffen Playhouse Writers’ Room.  He is currently in Skylight Theatre’s Skylab and a Resident Playwright of New Dramatists.

Arianna Basco: ARIANNA LADY BASCO is a single mom and multi-hyphenated artist from holding space and teaching to poetry and acting. She is the founder of Palms Up Academy, author of the novella Palms Up, creator of original play HEARTSTORMS, Writer/ Director/ Lead in her award-winning short film GLIMMER and awaits the release of her brother’s Dante Basco’s directorial film debut The Fabulous Filipino Brothers which she co-stars in and co-wrote. Her and her family have been recognized by the State of California and by the City of Los Angeles for being the ‘First Filipino Entertainment Family’. Arianna was highlighted in The Filipino Channel’s 25th year #beingfilipino campaign alongside her niece Ella Jay Basco. Has been spotted singing and strumming guitar for her community at the intersection.

Diana Burbano:  Diana Burbano, a Colombian immigrant, is an Equity actor, a playwright and a teaching artist at South Coast Repertory and Breath of Fire Latina Theatre Ensemble. Written work includes: Policarpa, Oregon Shakespeare Festival Brown Swan Lab 2017, Drama League Rough Draft series May 2017, Honorable Mention, Jane Chambers Award 2017, Parsnip Ship 2017 Fabulous Monsters, Latinx Play Festival, San Diego Rep 2017, Festival51 2016 winner, about women in Punk Rock,Picture me Rollin’ (featured at the 35th annual William Inge Festival and Inkfest at 2cents.), Silueta, (about the Cuban artist Ana Mendieta), with Tom and Chris Shelton, and the TYA Shakespeare mash-up, Caliban’s Island winner 2017 Headwaters New Play Festival at Creede Repertory. (Published by YouthPLAYS). She is currently writing material for Center Theatre Group’s Chisme y Queso series, for Rogue Artists Plummer Park project and for Kaiser Permanente’s Educational touring show. Diana is one of the original members of the writers circle for Latino Theatre Association/ Los Angeles. She is also a member of The Dramatists Guild and The Alliance of Los Angeles Playwrights. 

Inda Craig-Galván is a Chicagoan at heart who lives in Los Angeles, where it’s warm. Plays include BLACK SUPER HERO MAGIC MAMA (Geffen Playhouse) and I GO SOMEWHERE ELSE (Playwrights’ Arena). Her work has been developed at the Eugene O’Neill National Playwrights Conference, Ojai Playwrights Conference, OSF’s Black Swan Lab, and others. Recent honors include Kesselring Prize, Jeffry Melnick New Playwright Award, and Kilroys List. Current commissions: Old Globe (San Diego), Company One (Boston), and Primary Stages (New York). Inda’s TV credits: The Rookie, How to Get Away with Murder, and Happy Face. MFA in Dramatic Writing, University of Southern California.

Yehuda Hyman: Yehuda is a dancer/writer and the Artistic Director of Mystical Feet Company. He was born in Los Angeles to immigrant parents from Poland and Russia. He trained in ballet with Tatiana Riabouchinska and danced on Broadway with the original American Dance Machine company. Original plays include The Mad Dancers, Center of the Star, Swan Lake Bde Maka Ska, David in Shadow and Light (co-written with Daniel Hoffman), Max, Rapunzel and the Night, Tequila, Scenes from a Tango (co-written with John Dantona), and The Mar Vista. His work has been produced at McCarter Theatre, Mark Taper Forum, San Diego Repertory, Cornerstone Theater of Los Angeles, Theater J, Mixed Blood and Actor’s Theatre of Louisville. His honors include the Kennedy Center New American Plays Award, the NEA/TCG Playwright-in Residence Grant, Playwrights’ Center of Minneapolis Jerome Fellowship and LABA Fellow/14th St Y. He teaches Devised Theater at Manhattan School of Music. His essay, “Three Hasidic Dances” was published in Dance in America, A Reader’s Anthology (Editor: Mindy Aloff; Foreword by Robert Gottlieb), Library of America and his recent article about his dance activism in Germany, “Dancing on Smoke” will be published by Oxford Press in 2021. Yehuda lives in Brooklyn.

Grace McLeod is a queer playwright and screenwriter based in New York City. She is a current Virtual Mentee at The Playwrights Realm and a winner of the 2020 Ashland New Plays Festival. She was a 2017-2018 Trellis playwright-in-residence at Chicago’s Greenhouse Theater Center, where she developed her play HERLAND, which received a 2018-2019 National New Play Network Rolling World Premiere at MOXIE Theatre in San Diego, Redtwist Theatre in Chicago, and Greenway Court Theatre in Los Angeles. Grace’s plays have been presented, developed, and/or commissioned by Goodman Theatre, Actors Theatre of Louisville, First Floor Theater, The New Colony, Commission Theatre, The 24 Hour Plays, and Millikin University, among others. As a 2013-2014 Tribeca Film Fellow, she wrote and directed the short film UNDER THE TABLE, which premiered during the 2014 Tribeca Film Festival, and co-conceived and produced LOCAL/EXPRESS, an experimental short film that screened across Times Square as part of the Midnight Moment Series, the world’s largest, longest-running digital art exhibition. Grace is a graduate of the University of Chicago, where she was the recipient of the 2018 Olga and Paul Menn Foundation Prize for Playwriting.

Larry Powell is an actor, writer, director and producer born and raised in South Central LA. As an actor he’s originated and premiered roles in some of the most exciting new plays in America including The Christians by Lucas Hnath, The Legend of Georgia McBride by Matthew Lopez, Father Comes Home From The Wars by Suzan Lori Park, Brokeology by Nathan Louis Jackson, and While I Yet Live by Billy Porter (playing the lead role based on Billy Porter). He is a two-time Ovation Award nominee, three-time NAACP Theatre Award Nominee, San Francisco Bay Area Theatre Award Nominee, two-time LA Drama Critics Circle Award Winner, as well as an Audelco and Audie award nominee. Stars as Lawrence in the movie The Browsing Effect (Now Streaming). Larry is also a published playwright and professional screenwriter. Most recently writer/creator of TheGazeSeries.com  As a director he has worked with several contemporary playwrights on exciting new works directing fancy staged readings and workshops. As well as his own feature film project Mother’s Milk. Larry is an Adjunct Lecturer at the University of Southern California’s School of Dramatic Arts MFA Acting program. Larry is a graduate of Carnegie Mellon’s School of Drama and the Founder/Creative Director of The Freedom Workshop a holistic experience for diverse, intergenerational Black artists  to put each other on game through quality training, community, and opportunity.