HomeMakers, a half-hour comedy pilot written by Christian Barillas, is one of the 25 scripts selected among a pool of almost 1,000. Humanitas honors and empowers film and television writers whose work explores the human condition in a nuanced, meaningful way.
Directed by Christian Barillas, the reading will be presented November 8 at 7pm at the Goodman Mainstage Hall in the Milwaukee Youth Arts Center (MYAC).
The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts hosted more than 125 outstanding theater students from colleges and universities across the nation as part of the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival (KCACTF).
LAPC Theatre will continue its 2022-2023 Season beginning March 24 with the Martyna Majok’s Ironbound, a darkly funny, heartbreaking portrait of a woman for whom love is a luxury—and a liability—as she fights to survive in America. Performances begin Friday, March 24 and runs through Sunday, April 2, 2023 in LAPC’s Dow Arena Theatre.
“Barillas skillfully hits every note of Cheche’s transformation from odd man out to determined innovator to tragic villain with calculated precision… In another play, perhaps he’d be the hero who overcame adversity to save the family business, but here, he spirals into actions so irredeemable that he almost single-handedly creates the need for Bay Street’s trigger warning on the ticket page.” - Dan’s Papers
“It is an incredible opportunity to do one of our modern classics.” Barillas said it has been “really gratifying also because it’s not the kind of role I am usually cast in. This is not how the (theater) community sees me, so it is a wonderful opportunity for me.”
“Authentically written, beautifully staged and artfully directed with lovely clever flourishes and gorgeous style… The performances are wonderful. Each and every one. These people all seem so real, so familiar, so truthful. Watching them all circle around each other, spiraling, pandering, clawing, It’s really excellent drama.”
Emmy nominations are a problematic barometer of LatinX progress because they lie at the very end of a long TV pipeline that narrows opportunities, actor Christian Barillas writes in a guest blog for ‘The Wrap’
Nadine Malouf and Christian Barillas, lead actors in "Yerma," joined Boston Public Radio for a weekly news quiz.
The play follows Yerma, a young wife compelled by the desire to have a child, and her journey of self-worth and legacy. "Yerma" is presented by the Huntington Theater Company through June 30.
“An absorbing dreamscape with a lyrical adaptation and translation… it approaches the incantatory cadences — and the life-or-death stakes — we associate with Greek tragedy.” - Boston Globe
“Barillas brings a ferocious intensity to his performance as Juan.” - Theater Mirror
“In my version, this is not only Yerma’s story but also the portrait of a marriage. Yerma and her husband, Juan, are equals who love each other very much, but feel very differently about having children. Yerma won’t dishonor Juan or her family, but the toll her desire takes is significant,” points out Lopez.
That trusty old maxim about good fences making good neighbors leaps to mind — along with a host of recent political headlines — while talking with playwright Karen Zacarías about her comedy “Native Gardens,” opening at Pasadena Playhouse next week.
In the new comedy for Netflix, “The Kominsky Method,” Michael Douglas (Sandy Kominsky) and Alan Arkin (Norman Newlander) star as two friends — a once-famous star and his longtime agent — tackling life’s curveballs as they navigate their later years in Los Angeles.