New Roots Theatre Festival - Creators Lab Showcase

Creators Lab Cohort: Edith Castorena, Christina Li, Hasti Jafari, Maya De La Rosa-Cohen, Ashley S Raggs

SFBATCO’s 2024 cohort of creators - Maya De La Rosa-Cohen, Hasti Jafari, Christina Li, Ashley S Raggs, and Edith Castorena - present five original works developed in in SFBATCO’s incubation space for emerging creators. Excerpts from these unique pieces explore themes of family, heritage, San Francisco life, freedom, and more.

The First Three recounts a gay couple’s battle to become California’s first family to share equal parenthood. Homing Pigeons & Co follows two friends whose activism and differences become more disastrous with each passing day. In Clay Street, Chinatown, a Chinese woman learns freedom’s cost in 1850s San Francisco. Bay Dreaming tells the story of an African American girl in San Francisco losing her mother and her acting dreams. Finally, Named After My Mother explores fathers and lovers’ impact on three generations of San Francisco women linked by magic, fog, and one name.

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