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Frikination development in 2025

In February 2025, UrbanTheater Company produced a staged reading of frikiNation funded by the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events's New Play Residency Grant

Photo by Patrick L. Pyszka, City of Chicago

upcoming public performances in NYC:

A concert reading:

April 26, 2025 at 7:30pm & April 27, 2025 at 2:00pm

At Brooklyn Art Haus, 24 Marcy Avenue

Presented as part of Carnegie Hall's Nuestros Sonidos Festival

Produced by Rula A. Muñoz and Krystal Ortiz

In partnership with The Sol Project, The Movement Theater Company, Musical Theatre Factory, and National Queer Theater

Tickets & more info here!

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A workshop production:

June 24-28, 2025

At HERE Arts Center, 145 6th Avenue

Presented in National Queer Theater's seventh annual

Criminal Queerness Festival

Directed by Rula A. Muñoz

Music Directed by Jaime Cepero

Updates here!

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GOODMAN NEW STAGES RESIDENCY COMMISSION

Since September 2024, I have been a part of the Goodman Theater's New Stages Residency developing a new musical called (Fruit)ion with my co-writer, Satya Jnani Chavez. In August 2025, there will be a free public staged reading of our first draft at the Goodman Theater.

© 2018 Krystal Ortiz

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