My first full-length script is getting a staged reading!!!

I started writing 🍒stonefruit🍒 in 2015 as a junior in college. It was a 5 page script at first. Then I expanded it to 28 pages. And then put it away for 5 and a half years….

Last year, I revisited it through @bindlestiff_sf’s full-length playwriting class, expanding it again and writing a first draft of 64 pages.

Now, in 2022, the play is 82 pages and ready for actors and a director to work with it so I can keep improving it. The staged reading will help me figure out what works and what needs more. Time to keep growing 🪴

The story of 🔲Teo and 🔳Carrie has stuck with me all these years. Maybe it’s because it comes from a real moment in my life when I was barely 20 years old, being on the brink of adulthood and navigating new and old relationships/friendships.

With this story, I strive to write the realities of growing up, family legacies, farm workers, immigrants, and migration.

I’m thankful to Bindlestiff and @velascoarts for uplifting my voice and for being a safe space for me as a woman of color, as a Filipina, as a Latina.

Come watch 🍒stonefruit🍒 on May 1 and the other plays throughout the first week of Asian American & Pacific Islander Heritage Month! I’d love to hear what you think 😃 Link in bio for tickets (available for in-person and virtual livestream).

Also yes swipe for the videos I watched on YouTube for research