Where did we sit on the

bus?

.the companies.

Actors Theater of Louisville

Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center

Cleveland Playhouse

Marin Theatre Company

Denver Center For Performing Arts

Chicago Latino Theatre Alliance/

Steppenwolf 1700

Kravis Center (coming soon)

It’s a live-looping musical where one actor tells the story, plays every character, sings every song, and self-orchestrates the score—a metaphor for the immigrant experience: carving your own path and shouldering every responsibility to get the job done.

Reprising a role seven times—each time bigger and better—is a rare gift. This piece was my gateway to looping, composing, writing, sound designing, directing, and producing. It resonates so deeply, not only because I share so much with my best friend and the playwright, Brian Quijada, but because it demands every part of me.

Originally developed with Actors Theatre of Louisville—alone in my apartment, surrounded by instruments, C-stands, and tracksuits, with my director, and artistic twin Matt Dickson on an eternal Zoom call—this adaptation has traveled the country, growing funnier, more inventive, musically elaborate, and emotionally resonant with each pass.

What started as a pandemic dream—to make theater as captivating on screen as it is live—became an abundant journey beyond anything we imagined. And each time we return to it, we give it absolutely everything we have, as if it were the first and the last.

Where did we sit on the

bus?

.the companies.

What’s Live-Looping?

.the reviews.

.the archive.

.a dream.

.come true.