COVID PROTOCOL: Please note that this performance will be presented at the Tank's in-person performance space at 312 W 36th St. All attendees and artists will be required to be vaccinated for Covid-19. Patrons will also be required to wear masks when not eating or drinking.

FEATURING

Luis Roberto Herrera

CREATIVE TEAM

Luis Roberto Herrera, Playwright

Scout Davis, Director

Patricia Majorie, Scenic Designer

Zack Lobel, Lighting Designer

Camila Ortiz, Sound Designer

Ashlee Reed, Stage Manager

Brittany Coyn, Production Manager

MEET THE TEAM

LUIS ROBERTO HERRERA

Performer and Playwright

Luis Roberto Herrera is currently a South Florida based Colombian-American playwright with a B.F.A. in Acting from the University of Florida and an M.F.A. in Playwriting from The New School. He was a resident playwright in the GREENHOUSE Residency at SPACE on Ryder Farm and a Fellow at Athena Theatre in 2019.He has had work produced at the FRIGID New York Fringe Festival and the Atlanta Fringe Festival. His full-length plays include; Poolside Glow, Born Still, SAA(not that one), Welcome We Are Now Closed, BLOOD ON THESE HANDS. He was most recently a part of the LatinX Playwrights Circle 2022 Mentorship Intensive, is a member of the 2022-2023 HOMEGROWN Playwright Residency with City Theatre, and was selected for the 2023 Valdez Theatre Conference Playlab.

SCOUT DAVIS

Director

Scout Davis (they/them) is a queer non-binary director of live communal performance works. Their recent directing credits include Everybody by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins (Seton Hill University), Small Mouth Sounds by Bess Wohl, Bugle Boy by Thom Henke, Ay Dias Chiqui by Jose Manuel Freidel, translated and performed by Gabriel Torres (Uncommon Voices with En Garde Arts), Scratched Record by Nay Harris (Art House Productions). Cinzano by Ludmila Petrushevskaya (Carnegie Mellon University), My H8 Letter 2 The G8 American Theatre by Diana Oh (Studio of Creative Inquiry at Carnegie Mellon University), Fever Dream: A Return Performance Ritual by Scout (The Wild Project, The Brick, UnCommonly Studio, The Sibiu International Theater Festival), Many Loves by William Carlos Williams (Atlantic Stage II-Atlantic Conservatory). Scout is an alumni of the inaugural class of the International Performance Ensemble program at Pace School of Performing Arts. Upcoming Scout will be directing Putting it Together by Stephen Sondheim at Pace School of the Performing Arts. Scout will be sharing upcoming new works, HOW TO EMBRACE FAILURE and Witch & The at The Tank and The Brick this Summer. Scout is a recent Graduate of The John Wells MFA Directing Fellow at Carnegie Mellon University. https://scoutfdavis.com

CAMILA ORTIZ

Sound Designer

Camila Ortiz is a sound designer and musician based in New York. Her recent projects include Kaneza Schaal's KLII (2022-23), Scout Davis's Doll Valley (2023), and EVERY VOICE (2022), an AR installation for the LA Philharmonic. As a solo artist under the moniker Otracami, she recently released her debut full-length, touching the stove coil (2023). The project builds on her catalog of earlier solo releases as Camila Ortiz, including Fall Apart (2017) and Carrot Flowers (2015), and also draws on the influence of her ongoing avante-pop collaboration with vocalist and composer Claire Dickson as Myrtle. Her songs have been featured by Under the Radar, Week in Pop, and NPR’s All Songs Considered.