Books published by Nopassport

AMERICAN JORNALERO: This new play by playwright Ed Cardona Jr., premiered at INTAR in New York City in May 2012, focuses on the plight of a group of day laborers/jornaleros in Queens. A portrait of the intersecting transient lives in the search for a daily wage in a land of many compromised American dreams. A compassionate, clear-eyed and illuminating look at lives and people too often ignored in the US landscape, AMERICAN JORNALERO is a vibrant play.

Envisioning the Americas: Latina/o Theatre & Performance gathers five plays by five of the US' most daring Latina/o dramatists: Migdalia Cruz, John Jesurun, Oliver Mayer, Alejandro Morales, and Anne Garcia-Romero. With a preface by Academy Award-nominated screenwriter and multiple award-winning playwright José Rivera, edited with an introduction by Caridad Svich. A sensual, provocative collection destined to stir things up theatrically in American theatre. Cigarettes and Moby-Dick by Migdalia Cruz Liz One by John Jesurun Dias y Flores by Oliver Mayer Marea by Alejandro Morales and Land of Benjamin Franklin by Anne García-Romero Introduced and Edited by Caridad Svich

AMERICA DREAMING is a collection of distinctive plays by playwright Chiori Miyagawa with an introduction by dramaurge Emily Morse that illuminates a unique theatrical vision of how America dreams itself anew.

WOMAN KILLER is US-based Asian dramatist Chiori Miyagawa's take on an ancient story of revenge, murder and ghosts. With an introduction by feminist scholar Sharon Friedman and afterword by scholar Martin Harries, Miyagawa's WOMAN KILLER is a porvocative text that explores the psychology of a society broken by lies and betrayals.