She also moonlights as the Producing Artistic Director of award-winning fringe company, Off the Grid Theatre. She is a proud Miami native and New World School of the Arts alum, and holds a BFA in Musical Theatre from The Boston Conservatory and MFA in Playwriting from Boston University. Plays include Our Dear Dead Drug Lord (world premiere Off-Broadway WP Theater/Second Stage developed at Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Off the Grid Theatre, and McCarter Theatre Center Kilroys’ List, featured finalist at HowlRound’s LTC Carnaval of New Latinx Work, Relentless Award semi-finalist, Bay Area Playwrights Festival finalist, 50PP’s Best Unproduced Latinx Plays, 50PP’s Best Latinx Plays for College) Laughs in Spanish (developed at Boston Playwrights’ Theatre and San Diego REP), Christina (developed at Cleveland Playhouse Roe Green Award Winner) and Chosen (BCA She Said Festival, Sanguine Theatre’s Playwrights’ Week). As sensitivities vary from person to person, if you have specific questions regarding content, please call us at (212) 541-4516.Īlexis Scheer was named Rising Theatre Star by Improper Bostonian in the Boston’s Best Issue and is currently featured on the Kilroys’ List and Remezcla’s 8 Exciting Latinx Playwrights. Please note: Our Dear Dead Drug Lord contains depictions of graphic physical and sexual violence. The cast includes Carmen Berkeley, Alyssa May Gold, Rebecca Jimenez, and Malika Samuel. Are they messing with the actual spirit of the infamous cartel kingpin? Or are they really just messing with each other? A rollercoaster ride through the danger and damage of girlhood – the teenage wasteland has never been so much twisted fun.īreakout playwright Alexis Scheer joins forces with Whitney White, who “expertly directed” ( New York Times) last season’s acclaimed hit What to Send Up When It Goes Down. In this fierce and feverish world premiere comedy from WP Theater and Second Stage, a gang of teenage girls gathers in an abandoned treehouse to summon the ghost of Pablo Escobar. Our Dear Dead Drug Lord isn’t for the faint of heart, but neither is coming of age.” –Raven Snook “Just when you think you know where the play is heading, there’s a disorienting coup de théâtre that leaves you shaken. They’re throwing quite a seance at the McGinn/Cazale Theater.” –Ben Brantley “Highly entertaining-equally funny and scary-the play starts off as a hoot and winds up a primal scream. Produced by WP Theater and Second Stage Theaterīy special arrangement with Benjamin Simpson and Joseph Longthorne