Marga Gomez’s Long Island Iced Latina & Samantha Chanse’s Lydia’s Funeral Video (excerpt)

Long Island Iced Latina is an intoxicating comedic memoir of her awkward adolescence in Massapequa, Long Island, mixing equal parts cultural confusion, chronic virginity, mother-daughter instability and a splash of polyester fashion to paint a sardonic picture of her uprooted life as the new brown girl in a white high school.

Lydia’s Funeral Video depicts a not so distant future when abortions are legal only within 28 days of conception. Lydia Clark-Lin is doggedly pursuing her career when a mysterious being claiming to be an hours-old embryo invades her dreams, announces that Lydia is both pregnant and dying and commands her to create a video to be screened at her funeral before terminating the pregnancy. A sold-out, full-length production of this play, directed by Wilma Bonet, premiered at the Dark Room in February.