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Teatro Chelsea is proud to announce the finalists for the 5th Annual A-Tipico Latinx New Play Festival!

From March 6-8 at 7:30pm, each night will feature a staged reading of a fresh new play from rising Latinx playwrights from around the country. Join us in celebrating these three playwrights and their work:

L.A. Muerta by Mario Vega

The Leopard Women by Andrew Rincon

Salve Maria by Tatiana Isabel Gil

Each evening of the festival is FREE and open to the public. Just RSVP Here!

Each staged reading will be followed by a talk back with the playwright. Be a part of a play's development and learn about a playwright's process.

Audience members' feedback will play an essential role in helping Teatro Chelsea select one of the plays for a world premiere production in 2026!

March 6-8 || Thursday, Friday, Saturday @ 7:30pm

Offering creative space for Latinx artists to grow and express their work, A-Típico will feature a selection of English/Spanish/Bi-lingual full-length plays presented as staged readings in the style of in-development workshops. Scripts will be read by professional actors and audiences will then be able to share feedback with the playwrights to help them continue to develop their work to its next steps.

As part of Teatro Chelsea’s commitment to cultivating new work, a new work from the A-Típico Festival may be selected for a world premiere production in 2026! Teatro Chelsea’s new play festival, A-Típico, aims to showcase and expand the focus on underrepresented Latinx stories.

The festival also looks to present universal stories: not Latinx plays but plays by Latinx playwrights.

ALL READINGS TAKE PLACE @ Chelsea Theatre Works Blackbox (directions here)

Teatro Chelsea is funded in part by the support of the Barr Foundation.
Previous A-Tipico Festival Finalists:

A-Típico IV

December2023
Beheading Columbus by Diana Burbano
Alba by Alejandro Rodriguez
El Puente // The Bridge by Sandra Ruiz

A-Típico III

October 2022/January 2023
Ashes Down the Drain by Marielle Guadalupe Vizcarra
The Re-Education of Fernando Morales by Justin P. Lopez
Yoli, Alfredo, y la Vida by Peter Pasco
Grit by Nick Malakhow
619 Hendricks by Josie Nericcio

A-Típico II

October 2021
Black Girl Joy by Phanésia Pharel
Revitalized by Joel Ulloa
Temporary by Amy Toruño
Lithosphere Heart by Tatiana Isabel Gil

A-Típico I

April 2021
Before We Focus on Others by Diego Lanao
Malas Mañas by Alejandra Ramos Riera
Anormales by Fernando Vieira
SAA (not that one) by Luis Roberto Herrera
Flood by Alicia Margarita Olivo

A-Tipico

March 6-8 @ Chelsea Theatre Works Blackbox (directions here)

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Thursday March 6th @ 7:30pm

L.A. Muerta by Mario Vega

Directed by Armando Rivera

Yulissa Sepulveda is a teenage delinquent at an underfunded charter school in Los Angeles. She fights with her mom, her teachers, her classmates and eventually demons manifested from the negative emotions of the city. As she goes toe to toe with manifestations of loneliness and violence, she slowly begins to learn that there is a strength beyond punching and kicking (though punching and kicking will come still in handy!).

Friday March 7th 7:30pm

The Leopard Women by Andrew Rincon

Directed by Carla Mirabal Rodriguez

Amanda and Lucia are sisters who struggle to get along. And after an explosive fight between the two - each start seeing visions of Death and a mysterious creature called a Leopard Woman. The play follows them as they struggle to repair their bonds and deal with the grief of recently losing their mother. A play in Spanglish about Grief, Art and the meaning of Life.

Saturday March 8th 7:30pm

Salve Maria by Tatiana Isabel Gil

Two struggling sisters who are also brujitas (witches), accidentally conjure Mary, the mother of Jesus into their secret attic fortress at the girl’s home in which they reside. The girls learn they are not so different from Mary and find healing in the process of getting Mary to the great beyond."
Up Next
Alba by Alejandro Rodriguez • April 14-May 4, 2025

Alba

A new play by Alejandro Rodriguez, selected O’Neill NPC Finalist in 2024

Alba is a fresh, funny and poignant interpretation of Lorca’s House of Bernarda Alba, set in Miami.

April 17 - May 4, 2025

Chelsea Theatre Works, 181 Winnisimmet Street, Chelsea, MA

Alba was one of three plays selected out of 60 submissions for Teatro Chelsea’s A-Típico New Play festival in 2023, and subsequently chosen for further development and a full production at Teatro. Alejandro Rodriguez, an award-winning Cuban playwright based in Miami, has weaved together the threads of family, humor, exile and memories into a beautiful exploration of how we come to understand our place in the world.

Inspired by Federico García Lorca’s The House of Bernarda Alba, with a Cuban approach to life and humor, Alba follows a strong-willed Cuban matriarch struggling to maintain control of her unruly household amidst newfangled technology, mounting debts, and a suitor with questionable intentions. Set in working-class Miami, it is the story of a family’s journey as seen through the eyes of remembrance.

Elliot Norton award-winning director Mariela Lopez Ponce, Co-Artistic director of Teatro Chelsea, leads a cast featuring Elisa Guzman Hosta (Alba), Luz Lopez (Amelia), Ricardo "Ricky" Holguin* (Poet), Inés De La Cruz* (Josefina), Paola Ferrer (Yolanda), Amber Nicole Rodriguez (Adela), Jessibel Falcon (Angie), and Carmen Serrato (Gladys.)

Alba features scenic design by Kristin Loeffler, lighting design by Lauren Stetson, sound design by Armando Rivera.

About the Artists

ALEJANDRO RODRIGUEZ (Playwright) is a Miami-based writer, director, and founding Artistic Director of The Peace Studio’s Artist as Catalyst Program. Rodriguez is a graduate of Juilliard, where he was awarded the Michel St. Denis Prize for outstanding achievement. His writing has been featured in collaborations with musicians, choreographers, and filmmakers all over the globe. His first full-length show, Sorry, enjoyed two sold-out runs at the LaGuardia Performing Arts Center (LPAC) in New York, and his earlier work, Now is the Time, was produced three times in NYC including at the Joyce in Chelsea. He has been the recipient of residencies through the Miami Light Project, SPACE at Ryder Farm, Makehouse, and the Center for Innovation in the Arts at Juilliard, as well as grants from the Queens Council of the Arts, CUNY Dance Initiative, and the Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs. He’s lectured at multiple colleges, is on faculty at The Performing Arts Project, and has carried an adjunct professorship in the CUNY school system.
MARIELA LÓPEZ-PONCE (Director) is an award-winning actor and director based in Boston. Born in Cuba and raised in Miami, López-Ponce is a founding member and Co-Producing Artistic Director of Teatro Chelsea, a theatre company committed to bringing the work of Latin playwrights, actors, and other artists to the Boston area. She recently directed Laughs in Spanish, by Alexis Scheerer, at Speakeasy Stage. In 2023, she received the Elliot Norton Award for Outstanding Director for her direction of Teatro Chelsea’s Don’t Eat the Mangos. She has worked as an actor in Boston and beyond, including Hartford Stage, Alley Theatre, Teatro Marti, Apollinaire Theatre, Lyric Stage, The Huntington Theatre, Actors’ Shakespeare Project, Wellesley Repertory Theatre, Company One, Folger Theatre, 1st Stage. López-Ponce is a member of Actors’ Equity.
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Teatro Chelsea and The Huntington Collaborate On New Latine Play Reading Initiative

Teatro Chelsea and The Huntington announce a new Latine play reading initiative to collegially explore and celebrate the work of Latine writers with a series of play readings, conversations, and convenings in the coming year.

The two organizations launched this initiative with a reading of Jacuzzi by Cuban playwright and activist Yunior Garcia and translated and directed by Huntington Artist-in-Residence Melinda Lopez at The Huntington Theatre.

The Huntington and Teatro Chelsea have collaborated on past projects, including an online presentation in connection with Teatro Chelsea's production of Sonia Se Fue in 2020 and works included in The Huntington's audio play series Dream Boston, and look forward to deepening their relationship.

Teatro Chelsea

Teatro Chelsea celebrates Latin cultures, showcases and fosters local talent, builds community in Chelsea through arts engagement and collaboration, and is establishing a hub for Latin artists in the Boston metropolitan area. Teatro Chelsea creates theatre at the crossroads of languages, cultures, and histories that make up the Latin experience, and seeks to amplify and honor the voices that speak to these unique experiences.