Playwright: jei / Janelle Lawrence

Director: Jean Carlo 

Musical Guest: Two32

Assimilation can be difficult. So can growing up in an Afro-Latinx home with a mother who is holding on to her distorted nationalist Dominican past. Alisha and Carmela both have to learn to navigate their color-influenced worlds with the knowledge and outlook their mother has given them. Assimilation is based on societal influence, but what do we call the expectations passed down by our culture? And what do we do with those messages?

Cast includes: Victoria Lino, amo (Ashley Marie Ortiz), Cindy Peralta, Kai Heath, and Luis Vega

Link to episode coming soon

TRENZAS was recorded in June 2024