Desi Moreno-Penson

DESI MORENO-PENSON is a playwright/actor based in New York. Her play, BEIGE, was selected as a finalist for the 2016 Eugene O'Neill National Playwrights Conference. Another play, COMIDA DE PUTA (F%&king Lousy Food) was selected as a finalist for the 2014 O'Neill NPC. The same play received Honorable Mention on The Kilroys List for 2015, is the winner of the 2013 MultiStages New Works Contest sponsored by MultiStages Theater Company and received a NYC production in April 2015. MFA in Dramaturgy and Theatre/Literary Criticism from Brooklyn College, semifinalist for the 2007 Princess Grace Award for emerging artists, she has won two playwriting fellowships, as well as an acting fellowship, from the Bronx Council on the Arts. Selected plays: DEVIL LAND (HotINK Theatre Festival, NYU-Tisch, Urban Stages (professional workshop), world premiere @2007 SPF Summer Play Festival, directed by Jose Zayas, NY, Midwest premiere at Urban Theater Company, Chicago, IL),GHOST LIGHT (59E59 Theatre, NY), 3 TO A SESSION: A MONSTER'S TALE (Teatro Coribantes, San Juan, PR, selected as Best Play at 2005 Downtown Urban Theatre Festival @Cherry Lane, and part of the 2004 New Works Lab @INTAR, NY); LAZARUS DISPOSED (14th Annual Int’l Women’s Playwriting Festival @Perishable Theatre, Providence, RI), SPIRIT SEX & COMIDA DE PUTA (Both short plays presented as part of the 2009 & 2011 Going To The River/The River Crosses Rivers Festival @Ensemble Studio Theatre, NY). Two performance monologues, "A Latina Prepares," and "Don’t Knock It ‘Til You Try It," were presented as part of a solo show, DOS MUJERES, produced by terraNOVA Collective (NYC) for the 10th Annual soloNOVA Arts Festival. An excerpt of "A Latina Prepares" was featured in the documentary film, “THE THEATER OF RICE AND BEANS” (Tribeca). Her plays DEVIL LAND, GHOST LIGHT, LAZARUS DISPOSED, and 3 TO A SESSION: A MONSTER'S TALE are all published through Broadway Play Publishing and SPIRIT SEX was selected as part of the short plays anthology "THE BEST TEN-MINUTE PLAYS OF 2010" published by Smith and Kraus. Desi is represented by Bret Adams, Ltd. (NYC).