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

Project: Learning How to Squirt

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.