By Mara Vélez Meléndez
Directed by Javier Antonio González
Early one morning, Lolita, a young Boricua trans woman arrives at a suspicious (let’s say evil) Wall Street office with a mission: to take down all seven members of the Puerto Rico Oversight, Management, and Economic Stability Board. Much to her surprise, the receptionist who welcomes her has, more than a story to tell, a show to put on. A revenge saga giving existential drag extravaganza, Mara Vélez Meléndez’s savagely funny play takes aim at the unelected officials who think they know what’s best for the people—and for our own bodies—and the elected ones who appoint them.
Production support for Notes on Killing Seven Oversight, Management and Economic Stability Board Members is provided by Yale’s Binger Center for New Theatre.
Meet the Artists
Creative Team
Mara Vélez Meléndez
Playwright
Mara Vélez Meléndez
Mara Vélez Meléndez she/her is a playwright born and raised in Puerto Rico. Her Off-Broadway debut took place in 2022 with Notes on Killing Seven Oversight, Management and Economic Stability Board Members, produced by Soho Rep and The Sol Project. Mara was a 2023 MacDowell Fellow, a 2020-2021 Playwrights Realm Writing Fellow, and a member of Ars Nova’s PlayGroup. She also adapted the Spotify/Gimlet podcast, Case 63, starring Julianne Moore and Oscar Isaac. Other plays include Baby, I Fell In Love With The Computer (2023 Ars Nova Out Loud), This Is Not The Oxcart (Clubbed Thumb Biennial Commission Finalist), and Thelma and Louise and the Time Machine (2022 Breaking The Binary Theater Festival). Playwriting M.F.A.: Hunter College.
Javier Antonio González
Director
Javier Antonio González
Javier Antonio González is a playwright, director, and filmmaker who has served as the founding artistic director of CABORCA. Some of their authorial work with the company includes Lying Lydia; Distant Star (adapted from Roberto Bolaño’s novel); Zoetrope; Open up, Hadrian; Barceloneta, de noche; FLORIDITA, my Love; and their first feature film, The Entitlement. In 2016, they directed their original translation of A Midsummer Night’s Dream in San Juan, Puerto Rico, for Teatro en el Parque. Their work has been published in the anthologies Plays and Playwrights 2011 (New York Theatre Experience), Encuentro: Latine Performance for the New American Theater (Northwestern University Press), and in the journals Revista Conjunto (Casa de las Americas, Havana), The Puerto Rico Review, and Los Bárbaros (Spain). Javier holds a B.A. from the University of Puerto Rico and an M.F.A. from Columbia University School of the Arts. They were a Van Lier Directing Fellow and a member of the Public Theater’s Emerging Writers Group. Recent directorial work: Electra and the devised work Inspired by French Cinema at Barnard College, The Lower Depths at NYU, and Iphigenia Among the Taurians at The New School.