THE LEAK
by FERNANDA COPPEL
FREE Staged Reading. To reserve a seat, please email us at info@colab-arts.org.
Sunday, February 21st at 7:30pm
coLAB Arts
49 Bayard Street, 3rd Floor
New Brunswick, NJ 08901
When a leak starts dripping in Lucia (single mother) and Drea’s (only child) modest Los Angeles apartment their first reaction is to ignore it. The dripping grows stronger and stronger as Lucia’s boyfriend Carlos moves in. Lucia’s sister, Cuca isn’t fond of Carlos because of his fascination with Drea. After the leak begins to drip blood, this family is left to deal with generations of secrets and the ghosts that live under our tongues.
Playwright Fernanda Coppel was born in Mazatlan, Sinaloa, Mexico, and raised in San Diego California. A poet and playwright, she received her MFA in Dramatic Writing from NYU with a concentration in Playwriting. Her thesis play, Chimi-Changas and Zololft was nominated for the Goldberg Award (2009) and won the Asuncion Queer Latino Festival at Pregones Theater (2009). She received NYU’s John Holden Playwriting Award upon her spring 2009 graduation. Fernanda is currently in the Lila Acheson Wallace Playwriting Fellowship Program at the Juilliard School.
Director Alex Correia is currently the Director in Residency for the INTAR Actors’ Collective where he directed 365 Plays/ 365 Days by Suzan Lori Parks and Thorny Bushes, a Staged Radio Novella, written by INTAR Playwrights Group. In INTAR’s New Works Lab he directed plays by Desi Moreno-Penson, Cusi Cram, Mando Alvardo, and Mariana Carreno. Some of his Directing Credits include: The Woman by Michael John Garces for the 24hr Plays Company; Dwarfs by Harold Pinter and Dutchman by LeRoi Jones at the Williamstown Theatre Festival Workshop; I Am Yours by Judith Thompson at Center Stage (NY); and Othello by William Shakespeare at the John Houseman Studio Theater (NY).
Producer Jeremy Karafin Is currently the Program Associate for DNAworks (Dialogue and Healing through the Arts). He founded and produced the first three seasons of the Kinetic Poetics Project, an annual spoken word and poetry festival on the west coast (now in its 7th season). He is also the producer for the show See Something…Say Something and Love Redefined. He has directed half a dozen productions including the world premiere of Kristina Goodnight and Darren Blaney’s What the Hell is Going on Here? Previously he was the Assistant Director of Student Media and the SCTV Broadcast Adviser at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He has worked with the Penguin Repertory Theatre, Houses on the Moon Theater Company, MADD Productions, Intangible Collective, Textbook Execution, Shakespeare Santa Cruz, Rainbow Theatre, Brooklyn for Peace and the Wild Project.
