New Carpa Collective

@ Phoenix, Arizona

American Pastorela: The Road To Impeachment (New audition dates added) Bato Hernandez gets a Tweet while sitting on his porch in Altar, Sonora. Congress is launching impeachment hearings in D.C. This reminds him that he met a guy named Sergei at a bar months earlier who handed him a flash drive, saying only, "Study this. It’s about our cray cray friend in America," b...

“Miranda’s Curse” Written by Anna Flores () & James Garcia (). Directed by Maria Amorocho.

Opens May 13th at Herberger Theatre KAX for Lunchtime Theatre .

“Miranda’s Curse” Written by Anna Flores () & James Garcia (). Directed by Maria Amorocho.

Opens May 13th at Herberger Theatre KAX for Lunchtime Theatre .

One Lawyer, One Day, 194 Felony Cases The Constitution guarantees poor defendants a lawyer. It doesn’t say the lawyer will have enough time to actually work their cases.

This year we have decided to focus our performances on the current prison and justice system here in America. We hope to start a discussion about incarceration, deportation, separation, parole and reform. Join us this First Friday as we kick off our residency with with an interactive performance. We hope to see you all there. Admission is free.

“Those of us who hope to be their allies should not be surprised, if and when this day comes, that when those who have been locked up and locked out finally have to chance to speak and truly be heard, what we hear is rage. The rage may frighten us; it may remind us of riots, uprisings and buildings aflame. We may be tempted to control it or douse it with buckets of doubt, dismay or disbelief. But we should do no such thing. Instead, when a young man who was born in the ghetto and who knows little of life beyond the walls of his prison cell and the invisible cage that has become his life, turns to us in bewilderment and rage, we should do nothing more than look him in the eye and tell him the truth.”

- Michelle Alexander, “The New Jim Crow”