Latinx Playwrights Circle & Primary Stages

ANNOUNCE

The Intensive Mentorship gives four playwrights the space and support to develop a full-length play while being partnered with a mentor to help guide the process. Participants of this program will be partnered with one of our mentors, who this year are: Migdalia Cruz, Carmen Rivera, Cándido Tirado, and C. Julian Jiménez. The mentorship aspect of the program is designed to focus on the individual needs of the play. Along with an Artist Stipend and mentorship, participants will be able to take selective classes at The Primary Stages Einhorn School of Performing Arts (ESPA).

ABOUT THE PLAYWRIGHTS

Nilsa Reyna - Legends of Texas

Nilsa Reyna is currently focusing on being an actor, voice-over artist, and playwright. She grew up in San Juan, Texas and lived most of her adult life in Chicago, until she relocated to New York in 2013. She was part of the founding ensemble of Teatro Luna and was active from 2000-2004. She also founded and served as Chicago Fusion Theatre’s Artistic Director from 2007-2012, where she directed and acted in several plays.

Noelle Viñas - Derecho

Noelle Viñas is a playwright, educator, and theater-maker from Springfield, Virginia and Montevideo, Uruguay. Her play Derecho was part of the 2020 Bay Area Playwrights Festival, won the 2019 John Gassner Playwriting Award, was an Honorable Mention for the 2019 Jane Chambers Award and a 2019 Playwrights Realm Writing Fellowship semi-finalist. During pandemic times, some of her recent commissions include Weston Playhouse’s One Room Commission and Lauren Gunderson’s New Now Commission. Her play La Profesora was produced by TheatreFirst and is in development for a podcast called Abuelito with We Rise Production. Other past favorite jobs include running Annandale High School’s theater program alongside Theater Without Borders in Virginia, and producing her play Apocalypse, Please in with Kevin Vincenti in San Francisco. She is a resident playwright at Playwrights Foundation and is currently attending Brooklyn College for her MFA in Playwriting and is a proud member of the NYC Latinx Playwrights Circle.

Andres Osorio - Hostal Play

Andres is a playwright and screenwriter. His plays have been seen at the Cherry Lane Theatre, Dixon Place, The Tank, the People’s Improv Theater, and NYU. He is in residence with Primary Stages as a recipient of the Latinx Playwrights Circle Inaugural Intensive Mentorship. He received a BFA from NYU Tisch and the Chair's Award in Dramatic Writing.

Andrew Rincón - The Lonely

Andrew Rincón is a Queer Colombian-American playwright based in NYC. His plays have been developed with Rising Circle Theatre Collective, INTAR, Amios, the Austin Latino New Play Festival, The Amoralists Theatre Company, Pork Filled Productions (Seattle), Out Front Productions (Atlanta) and The 24 Hour Plays. He was one of six playwrights in Wright Club, The Amoralist's Theatre Company's yearlong playwright development program ('15-'16) He was a member of INKtank Lab for Playwrights of Color (2017) and the 2017 Fornés Playwriting Workshop (Chicago). He is winner of the 2018 Chesley/Bumbalo Grant for writers of Gay and Lesbian Theatre. He is a company member of Unit 52 at INTAR, a Dramatist Guild Foundation Fellow (19-20) and a MacDowell Fellow (Winter 2020).