Dept. of Performance, Play & Design at UCSC

This documentary-style play, based on Helen Thorpe’s bestselling book, follows four Latina teenage girls in Denver—two of whom are documented and two who are not—posing difficult yet essential questions about what makes us American.

Guided by Assistant Professor LisaMarie Rollins, the festival is student-run with student playwrights, directors, actors, dramaturgs, etc.

Two nonbinary cowboys, Gus and Billy, are down on their luck and traveling through the Wild West in Them Cowboys, an award-winning script written by UC Santa Cruz student Chris Hernandez.