More About Andrew Rincón, Playwright for I WANNA F*** LIKE ROMEO & JULIET

Pork Filled Productions launches our Unleashed 2019 Staged Reading Series with I WANNA F*** LIKE ROMEO AND JULIET by Andrew Rincón. Performing March 25, 2019 at UHeights, 7:30pm – PWYC.
ABOUT THE PLAY: The world is thrown into chaos as Cupid rips off her wings and gives up on love. But Saint Valentine has a plan to bring her spirits back up; and it involves mending the relationship between two men. From outer space to Hackensack NJ, this is a Queer love story of epic proportions that investigates the shame and joy within Queer love of color.
 
ABOUT THE PLAYWRIGHT: Andrew Rincón’s plays have been developed with Rising Circle Theatre Collective, The Amoralists Theatre Company, and The 24 Hour Plays. Andrew is the winner of the 2019-20 New Light New Voices Award for I WANNA F*CK LIKE ROMEO & JULIET. He was one of six playwrights in Wright Club, The Amoralist’s Theatre Company’s yearlong playwright development program (’15-’16). He was a member of INKtank Lab for Playwrights of Color (2017) and the 2017 Maria Irene Fornés Playwriting Workshop (Chicago). He is winner of the 2019 Chesley/Bumbalo Grant for writers of Gay and Lesbian Theatre (2019). Company member of Unit 52 at INTAR.
We asked Andrew, “What inspired you to write this play?”:
AR: The play originally began as a one – act that was very different than the play is now, it was a silly comedy about fetish and heartbreak. In 2017 I fell in love for the first time – and experiencing that (the joy, vulnerability and the pain in that) prompted me to shape the play into the longer piece it is now. It’s a play, at it’s heart, is investigating the battle in how Queer people of Color learn to love others, and themselves.
PFP: “What kind of theatre excites you?”
 
AR: Magic, epics, work that lives in vulnerability (whatever that means for the artist creating it). Things that pull all my heart strings – make me laugh, cry, yell in rage. I want to feel it all.”
Join us to hear Andrew’s play!
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