The debut festival year will share in CIRCA Pintig’s season theme of KAPWA, or kindred, as the festival seeks to connect our Kapwang Pilipino through new writing centered around the Filipino and Filipino American experience. The festival will present up to four evenings of  theatrical works from, up-and-coming and established Filipino playwrights, as well as readings and performances of the following works: 

Leaving Mother: Anak ni Tapia by Lani Montreal

Daryo’s All-American Diner by Conrad Panganiban (Chicago Reader’s Best New Play, 2023)

Krossroad the Musical by Foline Roos

The Butterfly of Chula Vista by Giovanni Ortega (Hear U.S. Now San Diego Rep Commission) in collaboration with PrideArts

View the playbill here!