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For the 30th anniversary of Milagro’s Dia de los Muertos festival, audiences will meet the creator of alebrijes, Pedro Linares, in a playful homage that celebrates his totemic creations. In this fantastical retelling, he attempts to trade his soul with La Muerte to save his brother but quickly learns that you shouldn’t gamble with death. Set in present-day San Luis Potosí, in Xochimilco in 1936, and in an afterlife that looks like a psychedelic Oaxacan jungle, young Pedro realizes the importance of his relationship with his pets as they rescue him from this near-death experience.
International playwright & director, Georgina Escobar is a Rhinebeck, MacDowell, Djerassi, Fornés, Clubbed Thumb, & La Mama Umbria Resident & Artist. The recipient of the Gotham & Variety Audio Award, the Kennedy Center’s National Darrell Ayers Award & an Outstanding Service to Women on the Border Award, her practice is deeply influenced by speculative futurism and science fiction told through a feminist perspective and the narrative expression of misunderstood sites of knowledge like memory, women, deserts, and la frontera (borderlands). Her work has been featured in the Kilroys List (StoneHeart), The Texas Review (Matted), Los Bárbaros | Lxs Bárbarxs (Pies Pa’Que), McSweeny’s Press (“I Know What’s Best For You”), New Passport Press (Cósmica, translation) and more. Her work has been produced across the USA, Canada, UK, Italy, México, and participated internationally in the ASSITEJ festival in Denmark and Sweden. Off Broadway credits include: Then They Forgot About The Rest (INTAR 2019), Sweep (Lincoln Center Director’s Lab 2016) Off-Off Broadway: Desaparecidas: The Musical (JACK, 2022). Her original work has been produced and developed at the Eugene O’Neill Theatre Center’s National Musical Theatre Conference, NAMT, INTAR, New York Children’s Theatre, Clubbed Thumb, Lincoln Center, Bushwick Starr (NY), Two Rivers (NJ), Milagro (PDX), Aurora Theatre (GA), Duke City Repertory (NM), and more.