The Roadrunner New Mexico Theater Festival is a staged reading festival of new plays by New Mexico playwrights.
In 2021, the top 3 winning plays will be produced in May, streaming online.:
May 14 shatteRED, by Damon Carbajal, directed by Talia Pura
May 15 Good Blood, by Ned Dougherty, directed by Angela Wilson
May 16 Hunker Down, by Robert Benjamin, directed by Duchess Dale
FREE. For Zoom registration:
shatteRED: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_5eevLilYScOoqmyuZvcN5g
Page-Turning Day: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_NXz4YJzsQSyy8ArWoSjSoA
Hunker Down: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_MebjpYslRai9PuFRnRynqA
For submission guidelines, click here.
TO DONATE IN SUPPORT OF THE FESTIVAL:
FRIDAY, May 14, 7:30 pm
shatteRED
By Damon Carbajal
Directed by Talia Pura
CAST:
Joe Gallegos, Rick Vargas, Tyler Nunez,
Mark Westberg, Lucas Corvatta, Noah Simpson
Zoom Master: Paola Martini
SATURDAY, May 15, 7:30 pm
Page-Turning Day
By Ned Dougherty
Directed by Angela Wilson
CAST:
JEANNE Nora Brown
FRAN Debbie Doggett
BARRY Scott Brocato
KRIS Tara Levine
SHEILA B.J. Stokey
MAGGIE Catherine Fridey
Zoom Master: Paola Martini
SUNDAY, May 16, 2:00 pm
Hunker Down
By Robert Benjamin
Directed by Duchess Dale
CAST:
Bari Carolyn Wickwire
Kevin Colin Morgan
Zoom Master: Paola Martini
In shatteRED, Rafa learns to love himself after a turbulent relationship with his partner Pablo. The play follows the scattered memories of Rafa as he attempts to put the pieces of his life back together after he realizes that his match with Pablo is not a match made in heaven but a case of toxic love.
Damon R. Carbajal (he/him/el) is a gay, queer, Chicanx playwright, educator, scholar, and activist from Las Cruces, NM. His work focuses on centering lost voices with an emphasis on LGBTQIA+, Chicanx and LGBTQIA+ Chicanx voices. His works include “at the interSEXtion of being GAY and CHICANX: Un Trío de Poemas” featured in Chamisa: A Journal of Literary, Performance, and Visual Arts of the Greater Southwest and “Radical Drama as Educational Catharsis” in Luminous Literacies: Localizing Teaching and Teacher Education. shatteRED is his first major theatrical work and he is excited and honored to premiere the work in the Roadrunner NM Theater Festival. He holds an M.A, in Chicana/o/x Studies, graduate certificate in “Race” and Social Justice, B.A. in Secondary Education, and a minor in theatre from the University of New Mexico. ¡Sí Se Puede!
After the death of their matriarch, a family gathers around a table to figure out how best to remember her.
Ned Dougherty is a playwright, poet and teacher living in northern New Mexico. His plays have been developed or supported by AboutFace Theatre (Dublin, Ireland), ForgeFuel (NY), The Playwrights Workshop (LA), Ironweed Productions (Santa Fe) and in his adopted home of Taos, NM at the Taos Center for the Arts and Metta Theatre. His full length and one act plays have been selected for festivals internationally and produced on stages in the Southwest US. As a teacher, he is a two-time Fund For Teachers Fellow and was the 2014 New Mexico Charter School Teacher of the Year. He earned his MFA in Playwriting from Augsburg University in 2019.
Hunker Down is a romantic comedy about an older woman and man coping with the Covid isolation and loneliness.
Robert F. Benjamin is a late-blooming New Mexico playwright, following a physics career. His plays are mostly about aging with grace, courage and humor. His full-length plays produced in New Mexico include: Parted Waters, Salt and Pepper, Not Quite Right, Still in the Game, Simple Gifts and Time Enough. Also productions of twenty shorts plays, a short film and an operetta. He's senior author of Spills and Ripples, a children's science book. Benjamin is a proud member of the Albuquerque Theatre Guild and was recently honored as a Living Treasure in Los Alamos County.
