The next phase was choosing the finalists and then workshopping the winning plays with a director, dramaturg, and cast. This allows the playwright to listen to feedback and decide whether or not to accept suggestions and incorporate any changes. Finally, the plays are performed as free public readings. This all happened within the span of a couple of months, a process that seems really fast.
Winning playwright Rodriguez agrees. “I think organizations like CLATA have done a good job of trying to bring Latine artists together not just through production, but also through development and programming that highlights artists that haven’t quite found their footing or that highlights a new play. I think it’s important that they are ambassadors for culture.”, is a drama he wrote five years ago about a family of devout Jehovah’s Witnesses in which one of the members is queer.
Rodriguez says that while writing the play was part of a healing process, he also “really had to focus on empathizing and really try to write a play that’s balanced in terms of being truthful to spiritual devotion and people’s faiths and also being true to the side that I was coming from, someone who did feel victimized by the faith in some ways. It was hard. It was hard to write that play, but I’m glad I did.
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