Auditions for The Chrysalis
Location: MN — Twin Cities Metro
Type: Call for Submissions
Categories:
Theater / Performance
Deadline: 01/28/2025
Open to artists statewide
Paid opportunity
The Chrysalis (a play in English) is a family drama set in 1990s Puerto Rico during the tumultuous AIDS epidemic. American pharmaceutical companies on the island were reaping tax-free profits by making life-saving AIDS medications that most Boricuas (Puerto Rican natives) could not afford. The father (Eduardo) has to weigh the advantages of working for the Americans against the costs to his family after Raul’s friend faces exile, conversion therapy, and fatal illness and everyone in the family has to face difficult questions at the very heart of their identities.
Written by Miguel Fiol
Directed by Joe Moses
Miguel Fiol is a Puerto Rican playwright and activist who works on behalf of the Puerto Rican people on the island and in Minnesota. Miguel is the founder of The Fiol Family Foundation, which supports historical, cultural, and scientific activities to improve lives on the island and diaspora. Miguel makes several trips to Puerto Rico each year to deliver medical care and supplies in his native Ponce.
The Chrysalis has been recognized as a promising new work by the Miranda Family Foundation National Playwriting Competition in New York City and by Teatro del Pueblo in St. Paul.
Joe Moses helped usher The Chrysalis from Miguel’s initial novel translation into English in 2012, serving as editor, to the stage adaptation serving as dramaturg and development coordinator.