Runs Feb. 27th – 22nd At the Magic Theater in San Francisco
Magic Theatre announce the cast and creative team for the company’s first production of 2020, the World Premiere of Ricardo Pérez González’s Don’t Eat The Mangos Directed by David Mendizábal, Don’t Eat the Mangos will perform from February 26 – March 22, 2020 at Magic Theatre’s Fort Mason location (Fort Mason, 2 Marina Blvd., Building D, 3rd Floor, San Francisco, CA 94123). Tickets range from $15 – $75 and are on sale now at MagicTheatre.org.
Writer Perez Gonzales is a queer PuertoRican writer with bacalao on his breath and Salsa on his hips, recently finished writing on the third season of Netflix’s Designated Survivor. After developing Don’t Eat the Mangos at Sundance, his play, On the Grounds of Belonging, about racially segregated gay bars in 1950s Houston, the first in a trilogy, premiered at Long Wharf fall of 2019. LongWharf has since commissioned him to write the second in the trilogy. He is also working on commissions for The Public Theater and Manhattan Theatre Club. Other upcoming projects include Orlando, a pilot with Nina Tassler about the Puerto Rican diaspora after Hurricane María.
Don’t Eat The Mangos takes place just outside of San Juan, where three sisters take turns caring for their ailing Papa. As a hurricane wreaks havoc, secrets are spilled and ugly truths emerge. Confronting their legacy, the sisters wrestle with what it means to stay true to self, familia, homeland and…how to best seek their revenge. Don’t Eat The Mangos is a wickedly funny drama.
Director David Mendizábal is an NYC based director, designer, one of the Producing Artistic Leaders of the Obie Award winning The Movement Theatre Company, and Associate Artistic Director of The Sol Project.
David attended New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts at Playwrights Horizon’s Theater School. He is the co-creator of el GALLO with designer Darrin George, has designed costumes for Bebe Zahara Benet (Season 1 Winner of RuPaul’s Drag Race), and was the Assistant Costume Designer for the Tony winning Peter and the Starcatcher and
?HAIR Broadway Revival.
Cast:
Yetta Gottesman ( I ) – Member of LAByrinth TheaterCompany and The Actors Studio. Credits at the LAByrinth include Where’s My Money? , Underneath My Bed by Florencia Lozano; Last Days of Judas Iscariot (WorldPremiere, The Public Theater written by Stephen Adly Guirgis / dir. Philip Seymour Hoffman).
Elena Estér (Yinoelle) – Elena is a native New Yorker is a salsera. Portuguese, French, basic MandarinChinese, and is just beginning German. She will also learn her nativeQuechua. Credits include Ageless atQuantum Dragon Theatre as “Olivia;” “Carla” in Custom Made Theatre’s In the Heights; and “Veronica” in The Motherfucker with the Hat.
Marilet Martinez (Wicha) – Marilet is one fourth of the ALTA (Alliance for Latinx TheatreArtists) award-winning, all Latina improv and sketch team Ratas de Dos Patas.Ratas has played festivals across the country and last year debuted their sold-out sketch show The Invocation of Selena
Wilma Bonet (Mami) – Acting credits includes, Little Erik at Aurora Theater, A Streetcar NamedDesire and Tanya Saracho’s The Tenth Muse both at theOregon Shakespeare Festival, Luis Alfaro’s Electricidad at the Mark Taper Forum and Jose Cruz Gonzalez’s September Shoes at the Denver Center Theatre Company, for which she received an award for outstanding performance
Julian López-Morillas (Papi) – Julian was for many years an actor and director with the Berkeley Shakespeare Festival. ppearances at Magic Theatre have included The WildGoose (1978), Jacques and His Master (1989)and TheAmerican in Me (2004)