PLAYS
Selection of works
written by
Brandon Bautista
Vulgar title that deals with race
*Off-Off Broadway Performance, The Tank NYC, Winter 2024*Staged performance, May 2023, New York University *Concert Reading April 2023, The Kennedy Center, Washington, D.C *Staged Reading, Feb 2023, KCACTF, Boston, Massachusetts Synopsis
A group of workshoppers workshop a play about a GROUP of workshoppers workshopping a play about a gRoUp of workshoppers workshopping a play about…
In workshops or staged readings or classrooms or or or—what happens when playwrights of color need to stage their plays with only white actors in the room or or or—what happens when performers of color need to perform scenes with only white plays in the room or or or—
*Kennedy Center National Award Second-Place for John Cauble Outstanding Short Play Award
exhibition fil-o-pinos
*Stage Performance Fall 2022, New York University Tisch School of the Arts, Selected Student Works Synopsis
In 1904, the United States held the World’s Fair in St. Louis, Missouri.
One of the exhibits was a human zoo of my people.
Theatre is sort of an exhibit.
In an unnamed city in the Bay Area, California, a family of Filipino-Americans inherit a run-down restaurant, a suburban home, and a Filipina housekeeper. What happens when the establishment of a legacy clashes with the healing of another? exhibition: Fil-O-PiNOS is a new play by Brandon Bautista, exploring the ways that Filipinos live in art and are observed in life.
THE MULTIVERSE OF FRIENDSHIP
*Staged Performance, Spring 2025, NYU Playwrights Horizons Theater School Synopsis
In a Pho restaurant in Nowhere, California, Bo has a meeting with the Universe in search for his lost best friend, Trixie. Spanning multiverses where nuns rob the Smithsonian, cowboys search for the American dream, two high schoolers obsess over Vanessa Hudgens' The Princess Switch, and two best friends record a Wingstop mukbang and discuss a future that will never happen. A play on memorial grief, friendship, and…YOUR F*CKING MOM! AYYYYY!!!