Sin Muros: A Latinx Theater Festival

On a visit home to see her parents, Alma finds that, even though her father’s Alzheimer’s has gotten worse, her mother has fired the woman helping her and is refusing to hire anyone else.

Josie Nericcio (she/her) is originally from Laredo, Texas and now lives in Los Angeles. Her plays include Carlotta Learns to Whistle, El Arbol, 619 Hendricks, Easter Sunday at the Juarez Floral Shop and The Texas Ocean. Her play 619 Hendricks was selected for a staged production in the 2023 A-Tipíco Latinx Play Festival in Boston and a staged reading in Stages’ 2023 Sin Muros Festival. Her work has been featured in the TEATRX La Vida Es Cortos Festival, the Short and Sweet Festival and the Amapola Players Theater group. Awards include the Alleyway Theater’s Maxim Mazumdar New Play Award (one act), Best of Fest in the Short and Sweet Festival Latino Program, and Semi-Finalist for the American Blue Ink Award. She has a published book of poem/monologues, Rio Grande Anthology, and had poems published in Huizache: The Magazine of Latino Literature. She is a founding member of the playwriting group Collective Voz and the Assistant Artistic Director of the Amapola Players.

A writer sets off to investigate a developing story about orcas capsizing boats off the coast of Spain. There she meets a rebellious cetologist trying to evolve her own species into a new perspective, navigates her embodied history of language colonialism, and receives a visit from a distant ancestor who’s learning to forgive themselves. Meanwhile, not all orcas are free, and not all mothers are without anger.

ricardo pérez dávila (they/them) is an actor, playwright, educator. A graduate of the Yale School of Drama (MFA) and Tisch School of the Arts (BFA), they have performed nationally for TheatreSquared, Stages, TEATRX, Alley Theatre, HERE Arts Center, Ensemble Studio Theatre, Yale Cabaret, and others. Their television credits include: Dietland (AMC), New Amsterdam (NBC), Chicago P.D. (NBC), Alternatino with Arturo Castro (Comedy Central), and others. In addition to being an actor, they’re an emerging playwright whose work has been featured with the Sin Muros Latinx Festival (Stages, 2023), and been awarded as a finalist for the Eugene O’Neill Playwriting Conference (2024). a writer-in-residence at The Colony at Dairy Hollow and a 2025 Houston Arts Alliance grant recipient, Ricardo is also an acting/writing coach (@perezstudio), and an emerging evolutionary astrologer (@astrologia_crocodylia). If you’re interested in booking a session or for more info, DM them!

Terry and Kati live in Denver. It was love from the moment they met at Very Gay Beans Cafe.

The trouble is

  Five years have passed

    Now ten

      Now fifteen

        and time just keeps moving faster and faster.

When a tragedy takes place several miles from their home, Terry and Kati are finally forced to slow down to ask each other, how should a conversation be? That is, how can we establish a profound connection, which feels distinctly available after an act of violence, in our day to day?

Malena Pennycook (she/they) is a Latine writer and performer from Texas. Malena creates formally inventive theater about the strange experience of having a body. They are a 2023–2024 Playwrights Center Core Apprentice and Playwrights Realm Scratchpad writer.

Malena’s plays include How Should A Conversation Be? (Playwrights Realm, Princess Grace Finalist, O’Neill Finalist, Playwrights Center); Diving Board (Seoul International Theater Festival, Crashbox, Teatro Vivo, O’Neill Finalist); Below (Concord Theatricals/Sam French, Take Ten); Two Apprentices (The Kennedy Center KCACTF Latinx Playwriting Award) and their solo show Am I Busy Yet? (Cosmic Cherry Arts NYC, Oregon Fringe Festival).

As a performer and deviser, Malena has developed new projects with The Public’s Under the Radar, ZACH Theatre, Santa Cruz Shakespeare, Cloud Tree, Fresh Ground Pepper, Dixon Place, Shakespeare in the Square, Cape Fear Regional Theatre, The Brick and The Flea.

Malena is an alum of the New Harmony Project. She runs a DIY artist retreat in Austin called THE SPRINT. MFA Playwriting UT Austin. ​BFA Drama NYU Tisch Experimental Theatre Wing.

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