Mara Vélez Meléndez
Biography
Mara Vélez Meléndez (she/they) is a playwright born and raised in Puerto Rico. Her Off-Broadway debut will take place in 2022 with Notes on Killing Seven Oversight, Management and Economic Stability Board Members, produced by Soho Rep and she will adapt the upcoming Spotify/Gimlet podcast, Case 63. Mara was a 2020-2021 Playwrights Realm Writing Fellow and is currently a member of Ars Nova's PlayGroup. Her work has also been developed at The Lark, Teatro SEA, Pregones/PRTT, The Latinx Playwrights Circle and Fresh Ground Pepper. Other plays include We Built Our Homes Near Kingdoms of Animals and Magic (The Lark's Playwright's Week, 2019 Rita & Burton Goldberg Playwriting Prize), ¡GARGOLA! (MCC LiveLabs) and Lajasarriba. Playwriting MFA: Hunter College.
Updated on 11/11/2021
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Representation
Kevin Lin, CAA (kevin.lin@caa.com)
Realm Developed Work
Lajasarriba
Writing Fellowship, 2020-21
Roberto Campero Benitez, Isabel’s grandfather and head of the absurdly conservative Campero family, is dead. In the span of one otherworldly funeral, demons are unearthed, tears are cried, history is encountered, the meaning of land is reconsidered, promises are never fulfilled, and goodbyes are said... or it could all be inside Isabel’s head. Lajasarriba is a ghost story of a colonized people and a myth about the souls that reside among the hills and valleys of the Puerto Rican countryside.
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