Wednesday, Sept. 4
5:00pm-7:00pm PST
8 weeks

In “Writing Teosintes,” participants will draw inspiration from teosinte, the wild ancestor of maize, as they collectively work on a script (theater / film / TV) that, in Cazares’s own words, “Meta would immediately flag, cancel, and ban.” The goal will be to create an alternate cultural canon uncensored by Zionism. 

“Writing Teosintes” will be limited to twelve participants. Those interested should fill out the application form by August 25, and will be notified of results by August 30. If accepted, participants will be asked to pay the workshop fee (sliding scale $600-$1000), 100% of which will be donated to Khalid's family in Gaza.

Victor Cazares is American theater’s first living dead playwright. With the support of principled theater workers, teaching artists, Gen Z playwrights, as well as family and friends, Victor underwent a 5-month HIV med strike to force New York Theatre Workshop (their former artistic home) to call for a ceasefire and condemn the Israeli genocide of of Palestinians. The NYTW refused to take a stand against genocide and ultimately preferred the death of the only Indigenous playwright it has ever produced in its season. Victor grew up in the U.S.-Mexico border and now haunt New York from their garden in Portland. They are supposedly repped by an agent at CAA that earnestly shares Ritchie Torres’s zionuts posts and has not spoken to them since mid-October.