Dillon Yruegas
he/él
New York, NY
Dillon Yruegas (he/él) is a queer trans mixed coahuiltecan/xicano theatremaker from Central Texas currently residing in New York City.
Biography

Dillon Yruegas (he/él) is a queer trans mixed coahuiltecan/xicano theatremaker from his ancestral lands in Central Texas. He holds both a BFA in Theatre and a BA in Spanish from Texas State University. Currently, he is Program Administrator of Career Development & Experience at The New School and a steering committee member of the Latinx Theatre Commons.

Recently, he was the Assistant Director of the Broadway Green Alliance, a HowlRound Theatre Commons fellow, a part of Company One Theatre's season 21 PlayLab cohort, a selected playwright for both the TransTheatreFest-Madison and Boston Theatre Marathon, and a company member of the VORTEX Repertory Theatre.

On stage, off stage, and online, Dillon has collaborated with American Indian Community House, Avante Theatre Project, Austin Scottish Rite Theatre, Capital T Theatre, De Corazón Consulting, Fresh Ink Theatre, Generic Ensemble Company, Ground Floor Theatre, Kalpulli Ayolopaktzin, History Matters, the Indigenous Cultures Institute, Inkwell Theatre, the Latinx Playwrights Circle, New Native Theatre, NYU Steinhardt, Parity Productions, the PlayGround Experiment, Primary Stages, Sparkhaven Theatre, Teatro Vivo, and telátulsa.

Plays

FULL LENGTH VERSION: Always wanted to know how transgender people of color go about their daily lives? Spoiler alert: they don't talk about ~the surgery~ or anything else that the Cis seem to be so obsessed about; they go to brunch and drink too many mimosas, just like you! In The Brunch Crowd, four twenty-something queer trans artists meet at their favorite Mexican brunch spot in heavily gentrified Austin, Texas.

Cast:
FLOR: trans woman of Afro-Mexican heritage. DALLAS: trans man of color. Q: Black or Afro-Indigenous non-binary person. ERIK/LA BRUJA-JA: non-binary person of Indigenous Texan/Mexican heritage. ASHLEY: white questioning cis woman.
by Dillon Yruegas

Always wanted to know how transgender people of color go about their daily lives? Spoiler alert: they don't talk about ~the surgery~ or anything else that the Cis seem to be so obsessed about; they go to brunch and drink too many mimosas, just like you! In The Brunch Crowd, four twenty-something queer trans artists meet at their favorite Mexican brunch spot in heavily gentrified Austin, Texas. (A ten-minute version of an in-development full-length)

Cast:
FLOR: trans woman of Afro-Mexican heritage. DALLAS: trans man of color. Q: Black or Afro-Indigenous non-binary person. ERIK/LA BRUJA-JA: non-binary person of Indigenous Texan/Mexican heritage
by Dillon Yruegas

Yasmine, a young mixed Indigenous Mexicana, questions the teachings of her family's Catholic faith and explores her gifts as a curandera. For audiences of all ages. Bilingual (Spanish and English).

Cast:
YASMINE: late teens-early 20s. Mixed. Femme. Bilingual. LA CURANDERA: 40s-80s. Indigenous Mexican. Femme. Bilingual. ABUELITA: 60s-70s. Indigenous Mexican. Straight. Cis woman. Spanish speaking only. MAMÁ: 40s-50s. Indigenous Mexican. Straight. Cis woman. Spanish speaking only. FATHER: 40s-50s. White. Straight. Cis man. English speaking only. Can be double cast with one of the VENDORS. PRIEST: 30s-60s. Bilingual. Can be double cast with one of the VENDORS. VENDOR 1 & 2.

Successes

The Brunch Crowd (10 minute version) was selected for the Boston Theatre Marathon XXIII.

Solo play, no soy de aquí ni de allá is selected for the 2021 Trans AND Festival at Ohio State University.

The Brunch Crowd (10 minute version) was selected for the 2021 TransTheatreFest (UWisconsin-Madison)

"Dillon, thank you so much for sharing your work with us. Our Play Selection Committee members were wildly impressed by the sheer quality of your work and it's reinvigorated us to keep putting in care and love and effort into TransTheatreFest. Truly, thank you."

Guthrie Theatre: Playwriting for Native Writers facillitated by Marisa Carr.

Company One Theatre Season 21 PlayLab cohort