Machu Picchu Play
“In the dream we shared no language, but I saw through your eyes while the world turned over.”
Written by Tyler Rocío Ecoña
Directed by Fernando Vieira
Staged Reading Presentation:
Thursday, June 11, 2026 – 6:00 PM
Tickets
General Admission - $10
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Location
IATI Theater - Mainstage
64 E 4th Street
NYC, NY 10003
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About
In a future where climate change has sunk the coasts and blood rains from the sky, a tour group climbs Machu Picchu, Perú despite an ongoing land dispute. Centuries earlier, on the same mountain, a third-gender oracle predicts the collapse of the Inca Empire and life as they know it. No one knows about the creature stalking the highlands in the shape of one 1924 Republican Senator of Connecticut, but they're about to find out. A speculative, surreal folk horror investigating the United States' role in the erasure of Indigenous trans history, and the ways we've survived what others call "apocalypse".
Language: English
Genre: Magical Realism
Playwright
Tyler Rocío Ecoña | United States
Tyler Rocio Ecoña is a Peruvian-American theatre artist & storyteller whose work draws from their Quechua heritage towards landscapes of Indigiqueer joy. They have been a resident at the VSA Playwright Discovery Program, a Silver Medal recipient at the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards, an intern at Cartoon Network Studios, and an apprentice at InterAct Theatre Company. They are a member of The Dramatists Guild & Latinx Playwrights' Circle. Ecoña was a 2025 finalist for Baltimore Center Stage's Trans History Project, and a new play of hers is forthcoming in Methuen Drama's Book of Trans Plays, Volume 3. Other works include: FELIPILLO (2025 Beacon Theatre Award, University of the Arts, Power Street Theatre) and UNFAIR ADVANTAGE (Philly Women's Theatre Fest, Bloomsbury). They are also an editor with Qhariwarmikuna, a multilingual literary magazine of queer/trans/Two-Spirit Andean art (@qhariwarmikuna). BFA: The University of the Arts.
Artistic Team
Fernando Vieira, Director
Multidisciplinary writer, director, and performer for both stage and screen. Directing credits include Las sirvientas, Los Nutcrackers: A Christmas Carajo, and Las MártirAs. Playwriting credits include Me voy porque puedo, Goodbye, Little George, and Anormales. In 2021, released the documentary Unlabeled and the digital collection Dos piezas teatrales de Fernando Vieira. In 2023, debuted the experimental film Frenetic Journey Toward Muddledness. This marks his fourth year directing for the Cimientos Reading Series. Holds an M.A. in Liberal Studies.
Andrés Gallardo Bustillo
Track 1
Rula A. Muñoz
Track 2
Flower Rios
Track 3
Anthony Cedeno
Track 4
Lorenza Bernasconi
Stage Directions