khristián méndez aguirre

The Civilians hosts an annual play development group, titled the R&D group. I was selected to be part of this year’s cohort, from a pool of over 200 applicants. You can find out more about the program here, and I have pasted the full list of participants, finalists and semifinalists below.

The play I’ll be working on, 111 Fires and 1 Flood at the Guatemalan Natural History Museum (working title) will be presented at a reading in NYC in June. It is the final instalment of my “tree-logy”, which began with my translation of Estado Vegetal by Manuela Infante (2023), and continued with the original adaptation Beto, Beto el Abeto (2023).

(copied from Extended Play):

The members of The Civilians’ 2024-25 R&D Group are Khristián Mendéz Aguirre, Bazeed, Lyndsey Bourne, Ash Marinaccio, Francisco Mendoza, and Camille Simone Thomas.

Finalist Projects were proposed by abigail jean-baptist, Carsen Joenk & Molly Bicks, Marina Carlstroem & Penelope Gould, and Miranda Cornell.

Semifinalist Projects were proposed by C. Meaker, Dan Hasse, Danny Bryck, Durra Leung, Dustin Chinn, Gursimrat Kaur, Jaymes Sanchez, Joey Merlo, Laura Neill, Liz Peterson, Luz Lorenzana Twigg, m, Max Keane, Phanesia Pharel, Philip Santos Schaffer, Ruth Geye, and Savannah Reich.

The page of the full history of the R&D group is here.