We were happy to participate in the LAB @ LWT (Long Wharf Theatre). Check it out to hear some songs from the show!

  • In 1987, Linda Ronstadt released Canciones de mi Padre, a pivotal album for the Mexican American community. The collection of traditional ranchera and classic mariachi songs immediately became a Grammy-winning, global smash hit, and with 2.5 million US sales, remains one of the best-selling, non-English language albums in the history of the US music industry. The album went Double-Platinum and Ronstadt won a Grammy Award for Best Mexican/Mexican-American Album at the 31st Grammy Awards. Even more importantly, for a generation of Chincano/a/es, this was one of the most impactful collections of music ever produced in the United States.

    Using this album as an inspiration, Canciones combines music, dance, personal narrative, broad international histories, and more to examine the role Mexican-Americans and Mexicans living in the US play in our current moment, and our unique place in the history of this country., and does so from a place of joy, love, and laughter, especially when it is hardest to do so. For us, this is the most Mexican thing we can do.

  •  Development History
    We're grateful to our many partners and artistic collaborators who have contributed their labor toward the development of Canciones!

    • Spring 2024. Staging Worskhop. Radical Evolution, hosted by PRTT. New York, NY
      The Team: Rebecca Martínez, Julián Mesri, Beto O'Byrne, Sara Ornelas, Meropi Peponides, Ruth Aguilar, Carlo Albán, Mayela Barrera, Kai An Chee, Alan Mendez, Marlene Montes, Celina Revollar, Cambria Martin, Naomie Saini

    • Winter 2024. Staging Workshop. Radical Evolution. Brooklyn, NY
      The Team: Rebecca Martínez, Julián Mesri, Beto O'Byrne, Sara Ornelas, Meropi Peponides, Carlo Albán, Jen Anaya, Valeria Ceballos, Tauren Hagans, Alan Mendez, Desiree Rodriguez

    • Spring 2023. Script Reading. Latinx Playwrights Circle. New York, NY.
      The Team: Galia Backal, Julián Mesri, Beto O'Byrne, Sara Ornelas, Meropi Peponides, Carlo Albán, Christin Eve Cato, Maribel Martinez, Brenda Orellana, Britney Quiroz, Jaymes Sanchez, Daniela Thome

    • Fall 2022. The LAB @ LWT. New York, NY and Online.
      The Team: Galia Backal, Julián Mesri, Beto O'Byrne, Sara Ornelas, Meropi Peponides, Xiaoqing Zhang

    • Summer 2021. Workshop. Sol Project. Brooklyn, NY.

    • Fall 2020. “Sol Listening Party.” Online.

    • Fall 2019. Workshop. Sol Project. New York, NY.

  • CANCIONES is made possible with funding by the New England Foundation for the Arts' National Theater Project, with lead funding from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and additional support from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation”

    This program is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in Partnership with the City Council.

    CANCIONES (working title) is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.

    This project is supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts.