22nd Annual Black and Latino Playwright Celebration

For the past 22 years, we have brought two playwrights (one Black and one Latino) from across America to San Marcos, to work alongside guest directors, professional actors, dramaturgs and Texas State Theatre students to develop their new plays over the course of a week.

EUGENE LEE began working as an actor in the early 1970s and continues to appear on stage, in movies and on television. His acting credits include works at stages such as The Negro Ensemble Company of New York, True Colors in Atlanta, the Huntington Theater in Boston, Seattle Rep, Pittsburgh Playwrights’ Theatre, Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles and Crossroads Theatre in New Jersey. His writing credits include episodes of Homicide: “Life on the Streets” (Emmy nominated), “Walker, Texas Ranger”, “Michael Hayes”, “The Journey of Allen Strange”, “The Turks”, and the Morgan Freeman produced television movie, “Port Chicago”. His own characters come to life through his plays, including, East Texas Hot Links, which has been produced on stages from Los Angeles to New York and London’s Royal Court Theatre and is published by Samuel French play publishers. His other plays include Fear Itself, Somebody Called: A Tale of Two Preachers, Killingsworth, Lyin’ Ass and the musical, Twist. Most recently seen on Broadway in “American Son” with Kerry Washington and Stephen Pasquale and Jeremy Jordan in the fall of 2018 and in the Emmy nominated film adaptation of that play for Netflix and as General Mears in Showtime’s “Homeland” eighth season. Lee is Artist in Residence and Artistic Director of the Black and Latino Playwright’s Celebration at Texas State University. 

Playwright of The Brunch Crowd

Dillon Yruegas (he/él) is a queer trans mixed coahuiltecan/xicano theatremaker from his ancestral lands in Central Texas. He holds both a BFA in Theatre and a BA in Spanish from Texas State University. On stage, off stage, and online, he has collaborated with theatre companies and cultural institutions across Turtle Island. He is a steering committee member of the Latinx Theatre Commons. Recently, he was the Assistant Director for the Broadway Green Alliance, HowlRound Theatre Commons fellow, a part of Company One Theatre's PlayLab cohort, a selected playwright for both the TransTheatreFest-Madison and Boston Theatre Marathon, and a company member of the VORTEX Repertory Theatre.
www.dillonyruegas.com | IG: @dillon_the_pickle_