TRTC's Crossing Border's Festival: Meet the Playwrights!

 

WHAT'S ON  |  NEWS  |  SUPPORT US     WHAT'S ON  |  NEWS  |  SUPPORT US       Four days, four plays, five amazing playwrights!   Get to know the faces behind the work at this year's Crossing Border's Festival! Don't miss any of the action, book your FREE tickets below.    GET TICKETS   Kristoffer Diaz is a playwright, librettist, screenwriter, and educator. His play The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Drama. His work has been produced, commissioned, and developed at The Public Theater, Dallas Theater Center, Geffen Playhouse, ACT, Center Theatre Group, The Goodman, Second Stage, and Oregon Shakespeare Festival, among many others. Coming up: the world premiere of his musical Hell’s Kitchen, created with Alicia Keys.   MORE INFO     Melinda Lopez is a multiple award-winning playwright and performer based in Boston. Her solo play Mala, which has had multiple productions all over the country, had its first public reading at the Crossing Borders Festival in 2015. Mala is also available on Audible in English and Spanish. Melinda is the recipient of the 2019 Elliot Norton Award for Outstanding Achievement in Theatre, recognizing her 20-year career.   MORE INFO     Tony Meneses is a playwright and the Interim Head of Playwriting at Fordham University. His plays at Two River include Guadalupe in the Guest Room, The Women of Padilla, and The Hombres. He is a two-time recipient of the Kennedy Center Latinx Playwriting Award and is published by Dramatists Play Service and TRW. He is an alumnus of The University of Texas at Austin, Iowa Playwrights Workshop, and Juilliard.   MORE INFO     Joel Perez's writing includes The Black Beans Project (The Huntington/Old Globe) and Playing with Myself (Ars Nova). His short film, Beautiful, FL, is a selection of Disney Launchpad and will premiere on Disney+ in 2023. He is a Warner Bros. Discovery 150 Artist for his comedy pilot You’re Tired, You’re Poor. He won the 2021 Voces Latinx National Playwriting Competition for his play From the Fountain. He is a 2019 NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellow in Playwriting.   MORE INFO     Christina Pumariega acts and writes. Often simultaneously. She is the author of VOS!, Lei Chiede/She Asks (O’Neill NPC finalist), Joan Dark (DCPA Colorado New Play Summit, Jane Chambers Prize runner-up, O’Neill NPC finalist) and Her Math Play (BAPF finalist). She is currently under commission by Denver Center for the Performing Arts and EST/Sloan Foundation in collaboration with Hartford Stage Company.   MORE INFO         PROGRAM SPONSOR:           Two River Theater 21 Bridge Avenue, Red Bank, NJ 07701 732.345.1400     Two River Theater 21 Bridge Avenue, Red Bank, NJ 07701 732.345.1400     Alea photo by @thehomelesspimp. Community Kick-Off Photo: Gil Cruz at Crossing Borders 2022. Photo by Brad Resnick Photography.   Made possible by funds from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, a partner agency of the National Endowment of the Arts.     Made possible by funds from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, a partner agency of the National Endowment of the Arts.