Minna Lee

PlayLab 2025 Playwright

Minna Lee is a writer and animator who takes audiences into whimsical worlds full of queer joy and strange magic. They are a recipient of the Dramatist Guild’s 2024 Lanford Wilson Award, and Audrey Resident at New Georges, and a member of Ma-Yi Theater’s 2025 Writer’s Lab. Their work includes My Home on the Moon (World Premiere at San Francisco Playhouse directed by Mei Ann Teo; Winner of the Sam Francisco Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle Award for Best Original Script), ACTING STRANGER co-written and performed with Andrew Schneider and Fox Whitney (On the Boards and LA Performance Practice) and Last Gold (2025 New Georges Audrey Residency, 2024 National Playwright’s Conference Semi-Finalist). Their favorite bug is an orchid mantis.

Project: Heart of Parasite

Contestants of a reality dating show arrive at Morpho Manor hoping to find love in paradise, but that dream is quickly threatened by genetically modified insects who have overtaken the estate. Written by Minna Lee and directed by Francesca Sabel, Heart of Parasite is a rom-com thriller that scratches at the itch for connection, or maybe that’s just lice.

Daniela Gonzalez y Perez

PlayLab 2025 Playwright
PRR PRR PRR!! Daniela Gonzalez y Perez is a queer Puerto Rican playwright, screenwriter, actor, and teaching artist from Brooklyn. Recently a UCROSS fellow, were in Clubbed Thumb’s Early-Career Writer’s Group and mentored by David Henry Hwang, and in The Latinx Playwrights Circle’s Intensive Mentorship Program and mentored by Migdalia Cruz. Writing creds include a one act version of “LEARNING HOW TO SQUIRT” (First Call x Media Luna, Cosmic Cherry Festival), “HORNY LITTLE TREE FROGS” (Ya Tu Sabes Monologue Slam by Nosotros x NBC), “ALIEN STRIPPERS” (The 24 Hour Plays), “TINKERBELL & THE LOST GIRL” (Fucked-Up Play Fest!), and Fortway Media. Acting creds include Rattlestick Theater, INTAR Theatre, Ensemble Studio Theatre, Joe’s Pub w/ Hurray for the Riff Raff, The Tank, and Gallery Players. They hold a BFA in Acting from Brooklyn College, are a member of INTAR’s Unit 52 and The Latinx Playwrights Circle, and a teaching artist for Manhattan Theatre Club. Pan, mantequilla, y cafecito; we can change the world cada día un poquito. PRR PRR PRR!!
 

Project: Learning How to Squirt

A quirky queer aspiring sex therapist is on a mission to make herself squirt, but after 365 days of unsuccessful solo attempts, she forces herself to do the unthinkable…go on a first date. An exploration of consent, sensuality, and intimacy—where connection might be the key, or just another detour.

Jesús I. Valles

PlayLab 2025 Playwright

Jesús I. Valles (they/them) is a queer Mexican immigrant writer-performer from Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua/El Paso, Texas. Here, Valles wishes to echo Rasha Abdulhadi’s call to “you, dear reader, to refuse and resist the genocide of Palestinian people. Wherever you are, whatever sand you can throw on the gears of genocide, do it now. The elimination of the Palestinian people is not inevitable. We can refuse with our every breath and action. We must.” In solidarity with the people of Palestine, of Congo, of Sudan, of Cuba, with every political prisoner here and everywhere empire threatens life, with every student movement rebelling against their state everywhere.

Project: [Name Redacted]

On the night of [date redacted], [Name Redacted]’s daughter disappeared on her way home from work. Years later, [Name Redacted] has sworn revenge on the men who took her daughter. She’ll confront them one by one, through any means necessary, and with as many wigs as her suitcase will allow, on a mission that is part revenge fantasy, part drag cabaret, part glamour fit.

 


Class of 2023

The Hills by Jonathan Alexandratos

There Are Black Roses Under the Sea by Cris Eli Blak

The Great American Holiday Crafting Show by Jeffrey James Keyes

Class of 2022

1898 by Nelson Diaz-Marcano

do this in [x] of me by Kaela Mei-Shing Garvin

Radclyffe and the Archivist by Kairos Looney

Class of 2021

Teach by Karina Billini

Good Hair by Phaedra Michelle Scott

A Silkworm Play by Minghao Tu

Class of 2020

righteous kill, a requiem by Nissy Aya

Red Clay Halo by Andy Boyd

BUST by Zora Howard

Untitled Cruise Ship Horror Play by Molly Beach Murphy & Erica Mann

Nasty Yatra by Utkarsh Rajawat

Chava the Giant & the Oldest Bird by Ran Xia

Class of 2019

Society by Skylar Fox & Simon Henriques

When Bees Last Whispered by Sevan K. Greene

Office Comedy by Sukari Jones

Coop by Sam Max

The Ortiz Twins Are Coming Home by Andrew Siañez-De La O

Let’s Hex the President by Kristin Slaney

Class of 2018

Five Hundred by Rick Burkhardt

Bundle of Sticks by J. Julian Christopher

feminine octagon [or, aristotle can eat me] by Amy Gijsbers van Wijk

Earth is Greedy by Jae Kramisen

House of Telescopes by Kairos Looney

Rise of the River by Divya Mangwani

wyrd by Matt Minnicino

Class of 2017

Bruise & Thorne by J. Julian Christopher

Heart of Duckness by A.J. Ditty

The Holdfolk by Freddy Edelhart

The Troll King by Aeneas Sagar Hemphill

Wunderkammer by Francesca Pazniokas

Trick of the Light by Charly Evon Simpson

Class of 2016

Princess Clara of Loisaida by Matt Barbot

Hags, Mopes, and the End of All Existence by Jen Browne

The Mermaid Parade by Gina Femia

The Puppet Show by Reina Hardy

Cracks by Jacob Marx Rice

Girl Becomes Bone by Callan Stout

Eleven Shades of Blue by Amy E. Witting

Class of 2015

Let Me Be Frank by Salty Brine

Untitled Time Dilation Play by Colby Day

The Convent of Pleasure by Sarah Einspanier

The Serpent in Quicksilver by Adam Fried

Pilgrims by Claire Kiechel

Nostalgia is a Mild Form of Grief by Jerry Lieblich

Hiding in Sanity: A Tragicomedy by Rachel Music

Proximity by Jeremy Wine

Class of 2014

Optimism, Or by A.P. Andrews

The Great Molly by Colby Day

Tom’s Nightmare by Andrew Farmer

Show of Hands by Jessica Fleitman

Mystery of Fucking by Scott McCarrey

The Carrion Man by Alex Malcolm Mills

I’s Twinkle by Nate Weida