Anne García-Romero
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Anne García-Romero’s plays have been developed and produced at the New York Shakespeare Festival/Public Theater, South Coast Repertory’s Hispanic Playwrights Project, INTAR, The Playwrights’ Center, The Jungle Theater, the Summer Play Festival on Theater Row and Hartford Stage. She has been commissioned by the New York Shakespeare Festival/Public Theater, The Mark Taper Forum, and South Coast Repertory. She has also written for Peninsula Films, Elysian Films and Disney Creative Entertainment. She is the recipient of a Jerome Fellowship at the Playwrights Center of Minneapolis as well as a MacDowell Colony fellowship. She’s been a visiting instructor at Cal Arts, UC Riverside, Wesleyan University and Macalester College. She holds an MFA in Playwriting from the Yale School of Drama. Ms. García-Romero currently lives near the ocean in Santa Monica, California.

• SANTA CONCEPCIÓN
• EARTHQUAKE CHICA
• DESERT LONGING or LAS AVENTURERAS
• JUANITA’S STATUE
• MARY PEABODY IN CUBA

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SANTA CONCEPCIÓN
Comedy

2M, 4W
Flexible Set

In the countryside of a Spanglish speaking land, Connie waits to receive the "second" Virginal conception. Meanwhile, her sister, Aurora, lies in a tulip garden entertaining as many men as possible. In walks Reynaldo, a young suitor, whom their mother, Dolores, desperately wants Connie to marry. Amidst aphrodisiac soups, prayers and levitations, sensuality and spirituality collide on Connie's circuitous road toward sainthood.

"García-Romero's script is a delight...the wild spirit persists, so that even weighty themes such as the death of hope and the erosion of love retain a blithesome quality."—Mpls/St.Paul City Pages

Commissioned by South Coast Repertory. Readings by South Coast Repertory, NYSF/Public Theater. Workshop at NYSF/Public Theater. Production at Cheap Theater, Minneapolis, MN.

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EARTHQUAKE CHICA
Comedy

1M, 1W
Flexible Set
 

Feisty, with a capital F, and frustrated, Esmeralda desperately wants out of her secretarial job. The escape act begins when, Sam, a shy literary accountant, asks her out. Amidst the poetry of Latin American and Spanish romantics and, well, mathematical equations, a comedic "marriage of the minds" ensues catapulting them out of their work-a-day lives and into an unforgettable lesson in how to love.
 

Commissioned and developed by Center Theatre Group/Mark Taper Forum, Latino Theater Initiative.

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DESERT LONGING or LAS AVENTURERAS
Comedy, Short Play

4M, 4F
Flexible Set

In a desert clearing on the outskirts of 1850s Los Angeles, Luisa and Elena Pico await a nocturnal rendezvous with Tiburcio Vasquez, the last Mexican bandit to roam California. Unbeknownst to them, the amorous bandit has also planned to meet two other society matrons. After the four women discover each other, they encounter several townsmen masquerading as the bandit. Amidst sighs, desires and fake mustaches, the women soon learn to seek adventure for themselves.
 

“None of the women knows about the others, but they’re soon tripping over each other under the stars, waiting for Vasquez as if he were a more romantic precursor to Godot” –L.A.Times
 

Commissioned, developed and produced by South Coast Repertory as part of their production entitled, California Scenarios.

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JUANITA’S STATUE
Comedy 3M, 4W
Flexible Set

In the city of a Spanglish speaking land, Juanita disguises herself as a man to escape the wrath of her lover Ignacio's father. Masquerading as a "new" Don Juan, she careens through the city encountering Beatriz, a country bride, Alejandra, a diva-like painter and Tomas, a leather bar patron who all fall instantly in love with her. Her romp soon lands Juanita squarely at the feet of Don Juan himself as she struggles to find true love.
 

Commissioned by NYSF/Public Theater. Readings: NYSF/Public Theater, Playwrights' Center, Jungle Theater, Minneapolis, MN.

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MARY PEABODY IN CUBA
Drama
Flexible Set

4W, 2M

In present day New York City, Amy Clarke, a history professor, discovers letters written by her ancestors in colonial Cuba. In 1833, two Bostonian sisters, Mary and Sophia Peabody, arrive for a sojourn in Cuba. On a hacienda outside of Havana, the sisters encounter and befriend a poet, Juan Velasco. As Amy unearths her family’s history, both she and Mary transform from proper to passionate and their New England lives are forever changed.

Readings: Intar, New Dramatists