Mia Gomez-Reyes (she/her) is a Latina playwright, stage manager, and arts educator based in Austin, TX, whose work explores grief, mothers & daughters, and how we love humans in all their ways. Her plays have been featured in UT New Theatre and Horizon Theatre New South Young Playwrights Festival. She was a finalist for the Playwright’s Center Core Apprenticeship and the Austin Emerging Arts Leaders program. B.A. Theatre & Dance, UT Austin (2022).
Plays
girls will imitate, girls will learn. what are you teaching them?
A women and her friend discuss the implications of the flowers that have begun to grow out of her hair.
When Maria Benavides Ramirez dies, her six children find themselves under the same roof once again, and it’s driving them all mad. Worse yet, they cannot find the will. The siblings begin their search, remembering special moments with their mother and with each other, until the unexpected comes and they must reckon with not the family they wish they were, but the family they are. Pray for the Notary explores the complications of grief, jealousy, loneliness, and what it means to truly be a family.
Successes
Pray for the Notary was presented a Staged Reading during Teatro Vivo's Austin Latinx New Play Festival 2024.
mirror, mirror was presented as a Staged Reading during the 2023 UT New Theatre Festival at the University of Texas at Austin.