Chris has been working as a playwright for the past several years, with several shows having been performed throughout New York City and receiving acclaim. Some of those can be sampled here.
#daddy
#daddy takes place in a New York City apartment, where a gay father and his Queer son navigate the ups and downs of living under the same roof. For an LGBTQ+ kid raised in a conservative world, having a Queer parent feels like a dream come true… until cultural and generational tensions spark unexpected friction. With a diverse, colorful cast and sharp comedy, #daddy is a vibrant, heart-driven journey through love, identity, and the complexities of family.
The show premiered in The Hispanic Federation’s 2025 edition of its Queer Arts Festival, where it won “Best Play”. The play is currently being distributed by Tiny Scripted. A script for perusal is available here.
Believe in Stupid Sh*t
This deeply personal one-person show reflects on beliefs that we hold dear, but may in fact be quite silly, without being a measure of our intelligence or value. In fact, it’s the opposite, because we’re smart, we can keep finding smart reasons to hold on to beliefs that we got to through not-so-smart means. The piece in turns resembles a TED talk, a stand-up routine, a cabaret show, and simply a man telling his story.
The show premiered in The Hispanic Federation’s 2024 edition of its Queer Arts Festival, where it won the “Abniel Marat” award for “Best Playwright”. Samples from the script are available here.
“The Gulf of Misunderstanding, or, North and South America Looking at Each Other”
The year is 1917. With the start of World War I, Chilean writer Sebastián Herrera finds himself trapped in the United States. A stranger in a strange land, he writes home to his wife to complain about this odd country.
Unbeknownst to him, his letters are intercepted by wartime censor miss Mabel Jones. She recognizes that the missives aren’t incendiary enough to be censored, but her intense patriotism leads her to do the unthinkable: she writes a response defending her country and
attaches it to the original letter.
What follows is a remote exchange between two strangers from opposite sides of the world until a chance encounter makes them face each other for the first time, or, North and South America looking at each other.
The show is currently unproduced, but was a semi-finalist for the The International Human Rights Art Festival in its 2026 edition. A sample of the script can be found here.
“Enter, pursued by a bear”
“Exit, pursued by a bear” is perhaps William Shakespeare’s most famous stage direction. In the third act of “The Winter’s Tale”, seemingly out of nowhere, Antigonus gets chased away by a bear, presumably eaten. Never to be seen again.
The apparent randomness of this action probably served a practical purpose: Shakespeare’s company most likely had a bearskin they wanted to use. The bear was therefore originally (and most usually, even today) played by an actor in a bear costume. So, what if the bear wasn’t a bear at all? Or, rather, a bear like the kind you’d find at Rock Bar on a Thursday night instead of a forest in Bohemia?
“Enter, pursued by a bear” tells the love story of Antigonus and “The Bear” (really a man) and the struggle of two lovers to understand each other when one of them is a stranger in a strange land.
The show is currently unproduced, but was a semi-finalist for the Cry Havoc’s “Brave New Work” in its 2026 edition.
Chris Browne Valenzuela 