About this Event
BAAD! The Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance proudly presents Los Nutcrackers: A Christmas Carajo, written by BAAD! Co-Founder and Executive Director Charles Rice-González, and directed by Nicco Diaz. This year marks the play’s 22nd year at BAAD!, and the first time that Diaz helms the work. The play interweaves two holiday classics, The Nutcracker and A Christmas Carol, to create a queer, Latinx play about a couple who go on a psychedelic trip through their lives one Christmas Eve.
The play features an exciting and talented cast of Latinx actors to be announced soon!
Charles Rice-González has written several plays including Pink Jesus, The Artist and I Just Love Andy Gibb published in Blacktino Queer Performance: A Critical Anthology (Duke Press) and produced at Pregones Theater. His lauded debut novel, Chulito, is about a 16-year-old, Latino tough boy coming out in the South Bronx, and he co-edited the anthology From Macho to Mariposa: New Gay Latino Fiction. He has published over two dozen works and has won several awards including the 2014 Emerging Writers Award from the Lambda Literary Foundation, the 2022 PEN America Writing as Activism Fellowship, a 2022 MacDowell Fellowship where he was named a James Baldwin fellow and the 2024 etras Boricuas Fellowship. He received an MFA in Creative Writing from Goddard College.
Nicco Diaz is an award-winning Afro-Boricua playwright, poet, actor, teaching artist, and cultural producer from the Bronx and East Harlem. His multidisciplinary work celebrates queer identity, Afro-Caribbean heritage, community, and radical joy. He is the founder of iconicco. productions, creator of Poetry & Potions Open Mic, and recipient of FUERZAFest's Outstanding Achievement in Playwriting Award. A recipient of the 2026 Bronx Cultural Visions Fund, Nicco is currently developing his original one-person show, Worth the Wait (o ten paciencia puñeta), slated to premiere in 2027.
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BAAD! Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance, Westchester Avenue, The Bronx, NY, USA, United States
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