American Jornalero

American Jornalero focuses on the plight of a group of day laborers (Jornaleros) on a street corner in Queens, NY waiting for news of work and for their luck to change. This vital new play places a literal fence line through the center of contemporary dialogue on labor and immigration—and asks whether it’s a divide that can ever be scaled. It is a portrait of the intersecting transient lives in the search for a daily wage in a land of many compromised American dreams. American Jornalero is a compassionate, clear-eyed and illuminating look at lives and people too often ignored in the U.S. landscape.