“Women mariachis? It’s about time!” - Soyla, Act I, Scene V
Familia, amor and tradición are at the heart of this hilarious and
heartwarming new comedy about the freedom to dream big. Lucha spends
her days caring for her ailing mother, but longs to shake up her 1970s
home life. When a forgotten record album sparks her mother’s memory,
Lucha and her cousin strike upon a radical idea: to create an
all-female mariachi band. Infused with live mariachi music, this
“big-hearted, musical tug at the heartstrings” (Denver Post)
reveals how music and love can make just about anything possible.
EXPLORE THE 2019/2020 SEASON José Cruz González's plays include
American Mariachi (Denver Center Theatre Company, Old Globe Theatre),
Sunsets & Margaritas (Denver Center Theatre Company), September Shoes
(Geva Theatre), Curious (Teatro del Pueblo), Among the Darkest Shadows
(Wharton Center for Performing Arts), The Highest Heaven (Childsplay),
The Long Road Today (South Coast Repertory), The Astronaut Farmworker
(La Jolla Playhouse) and The Magic Rainforest (The Kennedy Center).
González has written for PAZ, the Emmy Award nominated television
series produced by Discovery Kids for The Learning Channel. His plays
have been published by Dramatic Publishing, University of Texas Press,
Smith and Kraus, Inc., Anchorage Press Plays, Inc., Playscripts, Inc.,
Lion and Seagoat Press, and Dutton Children’s Books. González was a
2016 PEN Center USA Literary Award Finalist, 2015 Orlin Corey
Medallion by the Children’s Theatre Foundation, 2012 Ann Shaw
Fellowship by Theatre for Young Audiences/USA, 2010 Kennedy Center
National Teaching Artist Grant, and is a member of the College of
Fellows of the American Theatre, John F. Kennedy Center for the
Performing Arts. He is a professor at California State University Los
Angeles and a member of The Dramatists Guild of America and TYA/USA.
He is a Playwright in Residence at Childsplay (AZ). Henry Godinez is
the Resident Artistic Associate at Goodman Theatre. As an actor,
Godinez appeared most recently in 2666 and the Goodman/Teatro Buendía
of Cuba world premiere of Pedro Páramo, and at Writers Theatre in the
title role of Quixote: In the Conquest of Self. He has also appeared
on television in Chicago PD, Above the Law, The Beast, The Chicago
Code, Boss and Chicago Fire. His Goodman directing credits include
Charise Castro Smith’s Feathers and Teeth, The Sins of Sor Juana and
Mariela in the Desert by Karen Zacarías; José Rivera’s Boleros for
the Disenchanted (and world premiere at Yale Repertory Theatre);
Regina Taylor’s Millennium Mambo; Luis Alfaro’s Electricidad and
Straight as a Line; The Cook by Eduardo Machado; Zoot Suit by Luis
Valdez; the Goodman/Teatro Vista co-production of José Rivera’s
Cloud Tectonics and the 1996–2001 productions of A Christmas Carol.
He also served as director of the Goodman’s Latino Theatre Festival.
Co-founder and former artistic director of Teatro Vista, Godinez is
the recipient of the 1999 Theatre Communications Group Alan Schneider
Director Award, the Distinguished Service Award from the Lawyers for
the Creative Arts and was honored as the 2008 Latino Professional of
the Year by the Chicago Latino Network. Born in Havana, Cuba, Godinez
is a professor at Northwestern University and serves on the Board of
Directors of the Illinois Arts Council and Albany Park Theater
Project.
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