West Coast Premiere
by Brian Quijada
music by Marvin Quijada
directed by Raymond O. Caldwell
Fly Me to the Sun, written by two-time Jeff Award-winner and two-time Drama Desk nominated playwright Brian Quijada and featuring remixes and beats by Marvin Quijada. Producing and recording a late night variety show, two brothers discover the beauty and flaws of the American dream through the eyes of their Salvadoran grandmother. Puppets, music and live cameras create a unique and timely theatrical adventure.
Box Office:
323-663-1525
Show Days: 11 - Curtain
Dark Days: 11 - 6pm
Closed Tuesday
Preview: Aug 3, 4, 5
Open: Sat Aug 6
Close: Sun Oct 12, 2pm
Fridays & Saturdays 8pm
Sundays 2pm
Pay What You Want Mondays 8pm
BRIAN QUIJADA is an Emmy-nominated playwright, actor, and composer whose original work has been developed and produced all across the country. His hip hop solo show Where Did We Sit on the Bus? has been produced at Ensemble Studio Theatre (Drama Desk Nominations in Solo Performance and Sound Design), TeatroVista (Jeff Award in Solo Performance and Sound Design),Victory Gardens, City Theatre Pittsburgh, Geva Theatre, Boise Contemporary, 1st Stage, Colorado Springs Performance Arts Center, and a digital production at Actors Theatre of Louisville (Drama League Nomination). His Theatre For Young Audience play Kid Prince and Pablo premiered at The Kennedy Center in 2019. Most recently, his Cumbia Hip-Hop Musical Somewhere Over the Border had a critically-acclaimed rolling world premiere at Syracuse Stage, Geva Theatre and TeatroVista.
His plays have been developed at The Kennedy Center, Ars Nova's Antfest, Victory Gardens’ Ignition Festival, New Stage and Film’s Powerhouse Festival, Pittsburgh CLO’s Spark Festival, and the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center’s National Musical Theatre Conference.
Commissioning institutions include A.R.T.in Boston, 1st Stage, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Woolly Mammoth, Hero Theatre and The Kennedy Center.
Brian’s original song “The Always Song” was Nickelodeon’s 2021 Hispanic Heritage Month Song.
As an actor, his work has been seen on the stages of Roundabout Theatre Company, The Public Theatre, Playwrights Realm, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Victory Gardens and more. On TV, Brian has been seen on Blue Bloods, Search Party and Manhattan Love Story.
As an educator, Brian has served as an adjunct musical solo performance professor at Harvard University and has taught solo performance, social justice, verse writing, and devised theatrical looping master classes for Carnegie Mellon University, Point Park University, University of New Mexico, KCATCF, Western Washington University.
Quijada is a two-time Jeff Award winner in Chicago and a two-time Drama Desk nominee in NYC. He is a proud member of The Ensemble Studio Theatre in New York City.