Waiting for Da God?

  • Workshop production Posser Studio Theatre, Stanford University. February 5-7, 2004. Directed by Adelina Anthony.

Who Killed Yolanda Saldívar?

  • Staged Reading. “Lesbian Playwrights’ Festival” at The Magic Theatre, San Francisco. January 13 and 23, 2000. Directed by Irma Mayorga.

The Hungry Woman: A Mexican Medea
Commissioned by Berkeley Repertory Theater.

  • World premiere at Celebration Theater in Los Angeles. October 12, 2002. Directed by Adelina Anthony.
  • Staged Reading. “Plays on the Border Festival” at The Magic Theatre, San Francisco. December 4, 2000. Directed by the author.
  • Staged Reading. A Contemporary Theater, Seattle. May 21, 1999. Directed by Richard E.T. White.
  • Staged Reading. Brava Theater Center in San Francisco. June 10, 1997. Directed by the author.
  • Staged Reading. New Work Festival at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles. December 3, 1995. Directed by Lisa Wolpe.
  • Reading. Berkeley Repertory Theater. April 10, 1995. Directed by Tony Kelly.

Watsonville: Some Place Not Here
Winner of the 1995 Fund for New American Plays Award. Commissioned by Brava Theater Center, with support from the Rockefeller Foundation.

  • World premiere at Brava Theater Center of San Francisco. May 25, 1996. Directed by Amy Mueller.
  • Staged Reading at The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. February 19, 1996. Directed by Amy Mueller.
  • Staged Concert Readings at The Traveling Jewish Theater. June 5-6, 1995. Directed by Amy Mueller.
  • Staged Reading at South Coast Repertory Theater of Costa Mesa, CA. August 6, 1995. Directed by José Luis Valenzuela.
  • Opened at Frontera @ Hyde Park Theater of Austin, Texas. June 18, 1998. Directed by Rodney Garza.

A Circle in the Dirt
Commissioned by The Committee for Black Performing Arts, Stanford University.

  • World Premiere at Stanford University. November 29 - December 3, 1995. Directed by Roberto Gutiérrez Varea.

Heart of the Earth: A Popol Vuh Story
Commissioned by INTAR Theater, New York.

  • Premiered at the Public Theater in New York, September 14, 1994. Directed by Ralph Lee. A collaboration with composer, Glen Velez and visuals by Ralph Lee.
  • Opened at INTAR Theater of New York, January 10, 1995. Directed by Ralph Lee.
  • Opened at The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in January 1997. Directed by Ralph Lee.

Heroes and Saints
Commissioned by the Los Angeles Theater Center. Winner of the Pen West Drama Award and the Will Glickman Prize.

  • Premiered at The Mission Theater in San Francisco. Produced by Brava Theater Center. April 4 - May 17, 1992. Directed by Albert Takazauckas.
  • Opened at The Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center in San Antonio, Texas. October 23, 1992. Directed by Susana Tubert.
  • Opened at Borderlands Theater in Tucson, Arizona. August 18, 1993. Directed by Diane Rodríguez.
  • Opened at The Latino Chicago Theater in May 1994. Directed by Juan Ramírez.
  • Opened at The Miracle Theater in Portland, Oregon. October 21, 1994.
  • Opened at The Working Theater in New York City. December 7, 1994. Directed by Albert Takazauckas.

Shadow of a Man
Winner of the Fund for New American Plays Award.

  • Premiered at The Eureka Theater in San Francisco. A co-production with Brava! For Women in the Arts. November 10 - December 9, 1990. Directed by María Irene Fornes.
  • Opened at The Latino Chicago Theater on May 17, 1992. Directed by Carmen Aguilar.
  • Opened at The Miracle Theater in Portland, Oregon. May 1992.
  • Opened at Su Teatro in Denver, Colorado. January 1995.
  • Opened at The Cara Mía Theater in Dallas, Texas. May 23, 1996.

Coatlicue's Call/ El llamado de Coatlicue

  • Premiered at Theater Artaud in San Francisco. October 25, 1990. Conceived and performed by Guadalupe García. Directed by the author.

Giving Up the Ghost

  • Premiered at the Theater Rhinoceros in San Francisco. February 10 - March 12, 1989. Directed by Anita Mattos and José Guadalupe Saucedo.
  • An earlier version opened at The Front Room Theater in Seattle. March 8, 1987. Directed by Laura Esparza.
    Opened at the Diversionary Theater of San Diego. March 1998.