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Alejandro Morales’ plays have been produced and developed at the NYSF/Public Theater, The New York International Fringe Festival, Mabou Mines, HERE, INTAR, Dixon Place, RAW Impressions Music Theater, and South Coast Repertory. He was awarded New Dramatists’ 2002 Whitfield Cook Award for SEBASTIAN. He has a B.F.A. from New York University, where he studied at the Playwrights Horizons Theater School. He is a member of the Dramatists Guild and a resident playwright at New Dramatists.
THE SILENT CONCERTO
A comedy about three tragedies
2M in their 20s (1 Latino); 1W in her
20s
Multiple Sets
The Silent Concerto tells the story of Naldo, Benny and Mallory, three
drama students trapped in a drama of their own devising where memories and
fantasies unfold in a world of filled with Chekhov, martinis, unrequited
desire and Tori Amos dance numbers.
SEBASTIAN
Drama
3M, 1W (all Latino)
Multiple Sets
SEBASTIAN is a combination of emotionally charged scenes and more detached
third person narratives, creating a portrait of a fractured family made up
of four unrelated individuals. The play takes place in La Iglesia, a
run-down cabaret run by Connie, a third-rate cabaret singer who pimps her
waiters to the occasional tourist who wanders in. When the enigmatic
Sebastián seeks employment there, Connie, her lackey Benito, and an
amnesiac tourist named Federico are unprepared for the memories Sebastián
unearths in each of them.
Workshopped at INTAR’s New Works Lab 2000. Workshopped at The Public
Theater’s New Work Now! 2002. Recipient of the 2002 Whitfield Cook Award.
MAREA
Drama
4W (3 Latinas)
Multiple Sets
Marea begins experiencing visions of a woman, dressed as an Italian movie
star from the 60s who could very well be her missing mother. These visions
become more and more consuming as her relationship with her girlfriend,
her grandmother, and reality itself begin to dissolve as she searches for
one thing she can call her destiny.
Commissioned by the NYSF/Public Theater.
EXPAT/INFERNO
Drama
4M (1 Latino), 2W (1 Latina)
Multiple Sets
Post-9/11 New York. A fateful encounter with a heartbroken French
chanteuse at the Cock and a mysterious phone call send Danny on a trip to
Paris to look for his missing lover, X. Only Paris is not as he remembers
it. Cryptic postcards, sexual encounters, and Dante’s Inferno collide in
his search to discover the truth about his past, present, and future.
Developed at INTAR’s New Works Lab and NYSF/Public Theater. World
Premiere Production at 2003 Fringe, NYC.
SWEATY PALMS
Drama
2M (1 Latino), 3W (all Latino)
Multiple Sets
Inspired by Amargo, a poetic figure from the work of Federico Garcia Lorca,
SWEATY PALMS uses a destructive mother/daughter relationship as a metaphor
for the Spanish Civil War, which brews in the background throughout the
play. The play centers around Leonora, a young woman whose sexual
encounter with a young gypsy named Amargo shatters her blind acceptance of
her deranged mother’s tyranny, and whets her appetite for escape and
self-realization.
Workshopped at Mabou Mines/Suite 1998.Workshopped at South Coast
Repertory’s Hispanic Playwrights Project 2001.