2026 Amplify Reading Series Festival
~ November 20-21, 2026 ~
Two Days | Four Plays
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In Case of Bruising
by Kamila Boga
directed by Veronica Burt
dramaturgy by Sarah Showich
Regina
by Bernardo Cubría
directed by Jessica Kubzansky
dramaturgy by Margaret Shigeko Starbuck
The Ballad of the Unfallen
by Maggie Lee
directed by Amy Poisson
Marble Rooftop
by Eliana Theologides Rodriguez
dramaturgy by Avis Zane
Meet the Playwrights...
Kamila Boga (she/her) is an LA & NYC-based director, playwright, and actor. Fueled by the belief that creatives are first responders, she develops and directs expressive, ensemble-driven work that turns tension into art. Her plays have been developed by Rogue Machine Theatre, Ashland New Plays Festival, Boise Contemporary Theater, The Road Theatre, Eight Ball Theatre, Breaking & Entering Theatre Collective, Horizon Theatre, Williams College, and Dartmouth College. Kamila recently graduated from Columbia University with a B.A. in Creative Writing and a minor in Drama and Theatre Arts. She is thrilled to be a part of UC Santa Barbara’s LAUNCH PAD Festival and grateful for the opportunity to collaborate on new work.
Bernardo Cubría is a Mexican writer/director. His play Crabs in a Bucket won the 2024 Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Writing. The Play You Want premiered at L.A.’s Road Theatre in 2022, garnering Cubría a Stage Raw Award and a Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle nomination for Playwriting. In 2019, Cubría was nominated for the Ovation, Stage Raw, and Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Best Playwright awards for The Giant Void in My Soul. Other playwriting honors include the Smith Prize for Political Theater. He has served as a chair for the Dramatists Guild National Playwrights Fellows in 2025 & 2026. Cubría was also a 2023 Sundance Screenwriters Lab Fellow for Kill Yr Idols, which he co-wrote, and was a writer on Seasons 3 and 4 of Apple TV+’s Acapulco.
Maggie Lee (she/her) is an award-winning Seattle playwright who creates imaginative worlds on stage in genres like science fiction, fantasy, and horror, with productions in Seattle, New York, Seoul, Minneapolis, and San Francisco. Her work includes Songs of the Moon (book writer, The 5th Avenue Theatre Educational Touring Company commission), Once More, Just for You (Seattle Public Theater; 2024 Gregory Award Winner, Outstanding Original Script), And So That Happened (book writer, The 5th Avenue Theatre commission), The Sunless Scar (ACT Theatre Young Core Company commission), Sheathed (Macha Theatre Works; 2019 Gregory Award Winner, Outstanding New Play), The Tumbleweed Zephyr (Pork Filled Productions; 2016 Gregory Award Nominee, Outstanding New Play), The Flight Before Xmas (Seattle Public Theater commission, Macha Theatre Works), and The Clockwork Professor (Pork Filled Productions). In 2021, she was a Hedgebrook writer-in-residence and a Jack Straw Artist Support Program residency awardee. She is currently a Resident Playwright at Seattle Public Theater, a board member of Rain City Projects (an organization supporting Pacific Northwest playwrights), and a member of the Dramatists Guild. Her plays are available on New Play Exchange and published by Mneme Press. She holds a BA in English from the University of California, Berkeley.
Eliana Theologides Rodriguez (she/her) is a writer and dancer whose plays include Indian Princesses (2026 Off-Broadway Premiere at Atlantic Theater Company, 2025 World Premiere at La Jolla Playhouse), Poor Queenie (2025 World Premiere at Subtext Studio), Marble Rooftop (2024 O’Neill NPC Finalist), and We Are Angels, Just Like You!(24/25 Clubbed Thumb ECWG). Eliana is a proud member of EST/Youngblood and an alum of the Playwrights Realm Writing Fellowship, the Terrence McNally New Works Incubator, Clubbed Thumb's Early Career Writers Group, and the Bonnie Hammerschlag National Capital New Play Festival. Additional honors include: Craig Noel Nomination for “Best New Play”, Ollie Award Nomination, Weissberger/Harris Award Runner-Up, Susan Smith Blackburn Nomination, and the John Golden Award for Excellence in Playwriting. She is currently under commission at South Coast Repertory. www.elianatheologidesrodriguez.com
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