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ANNE GARCIA-ROMERO |
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Nationality: USA Email: Click here to contact Website: Click here to visit |
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Literary Agent: The Susan Gurman Agency, LLC |
Anne Garcia-Romero's plays have been developed and produced at the New York Shakespeare Festival/Public Theater, South Coast Repertory, INTAR, The Playwrights' Center, The Jungle Theater, the Summer Play Festival on Theater Row, Borderlands Theater, The Mark Taper Forum 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 Santa Barbara, UC Riverside, Wesleyan University and Macalester College. She holds an MFA in Playwriting from the Yale School of Drama and is an alumna of New Dramatists.
Plays by Anne Garcia-Romero
Desert Longing or Las Aventureras | ||
| 1st Produced: | South Coast Repertory | 2002 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playscripts, Inc (2010) | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #121082 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 4 | ||
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Notes: | Commissioned and developed by the Hispanic Playwrights Project at South Coast Repertory. | |||||
Synopsis: | 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. | |||||
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Earthquake Chica | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2004 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Broadway Play Publishing, 2007 | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0-6151-8888-1 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #56246 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
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Notes: | Commissioned and developed by Center Theatre Group/Mark Taper Forum, Latino Theater Initiative | |||||
Synopsis: | 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. | |||||
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Juanita's Statue | ||
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| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #56247 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 4 | ||
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Notes: | Commissioned and developed by the NYSF/Public Theater | |||||
Synopsis: | 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. | |||||
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Mary Peabody In Cuba | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | in Collected Plays, NoPassport Press, CA (2008) | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0-6151-8888-1 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #56248 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 4 | ||
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Synopsis: | In present day New York City, Amy Diaz, a Cuban-American 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. | |||||
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Santa Concepcion | ||
| 1st Produced: | NYSF/Public theater | 1998 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | in Collected Plays, NoPassport Press, CA (2008) | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0-6151-8888-1 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #55201 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 4 | ||
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Notes: | Commissioned by South Coast Repertory | |||||
Synopsis: | 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. | |||||
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