DULCCI

SYNOPSIS A young high school student from Chicago, after an encounter with Don Quixote, makes the decision to give her legal identity to her best friend, Dulce, who is undocumented and has no possibility of continuing her studies. This decision impacts the lives of her family and friends. Throughout the play, the main character will try to explain the reasons behind her decision. This play explores the encounters and disconnections between the individual and the community.

PLAYWRIGHT BIO
Raul Dorantes was born in Queretaro, Mexico, in 1968. He immigrated to the city of Chicago at the end of 1986. He was an active editorial board member of several literary magazines: Fe de Erratas, zorros y erizos, Tropel, and Contratiempo and a member of the editorial board of the digital magazine El Beisman. In 2007, together with Febronio Zatarain, he published a collection of essays titled Y nos vinimos de mojados with a prologue written by the well-known Mexican author Carlos Monsiváis. As a playwright, Raul Dorantes has created numerous plays some of those have been put on stage; two of them by Aguijon Theater Company: Hasta los gorriones dejan su nido (2008) and El lunes de Leon Rodriguez (2009). In 2010, his play De camino al ahorita was awarded the second prize of the national competition Nuestras Voces organized by New York based theater company Repertorio Español. Currently, Dorantes works as a professor of Latin American literature at Northeastern Illinois University.

Emily Masó was born in Chicago of Cuban immigrants. She grew up in a bilingual environment on the Northside of the city. In 2004 she received her Masters in Latin American Literature from Roosevelt University and shortly after began teaching Spanish as a new language and Latin American Literature at Northeastern Illinois University. In 2016 she joined Colectivo El Pozo as a translator of scripts (for subtitles) and as part of the technical team. Since 2018 she has been writing scripts collaboratively with Raúl Dorantes. Most recently she has begun producing films with Colectivo El Pozo.