Special Events
Alebrije Workshops
Join Marilyn Cisneros Shawe in making your very own Alebrije! In this two-session workshop, you’ll repurpose cardboard, newspaper, and tissue to create your very own little alebrije to put on your ofrenda at home! Join for one or both sessions! However, if you only attend one session, you’ll want to do the prep or finish at home.
Admission for each:
Pay What You Wish from $5
Alebrije Workshop Session 1
Sun, Oct 12 from 12:00 pm to 1:45 pm
Follow along as Marilyn guides you through the steps of designing and constructing the base of your Alebrije! Use aluminum foil, craft wire, cardboard, and newspaper. You are welcome to bring some of your own carboard and newspaper from home so that your home paper materials can be repurposed too, or use the materials provided.
Alebrije Workshop Session 2
Sun, Oct 19 from 12:00 pm to 1:45 pm
Finish your Alebrije by ornamenting it with colored tissue paper and paint! Take your creation home to put on your ofrenda!
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Study Guide
Milagro is pleased to make our study guide available to all audiences.
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"¡Alebrijes! - A Día de Muertos Tale" – originally commissioned by Milagro and written Georgina Escobar – is a playful homage to the totemic creations of the original creator of alebrijes, Mexico City’s Pedro Linares, who in 1936 first created and named the surreal and imaginative “animal-like” creatures. A mythologized account of Linares’ life (and almost death!), this screwball comedy is about art’s capacity to transcend mortality. Audiences will follow Pedro on his nostalgic visit to Mexico City in 1936, discover his special relationship to his animal totems, and join him in his journey through a psychedelic Oaxacan underworld. When Pedro attempts to trade his soul with La Muerte to save his brother, he quickly learns that one shouldn’t try to strike bargains with Death. After Pedro’s alebrijes rescue him from his near-death experience, he realizes the importance of relationships, and he fulfills his artistic potential by creating something that becomes a cultural legacy. "¡Alebrijes!" celebrates the beauty and absurdity of life, art, and love, and invites us to consider that death is not a severance, but an evolution.
PLEASE BE AWARE:
This production uses strobe lighting effects. Viewers with photosensitive epilepsy or other sensitivities to flashing lights are advised to be cautious or contact front-of-house staff prior to entering the auditorium.
This production is the spotlight event in Milagro's 30th Annual Dia de los Muertos Festival. For more information, visit https://mintcream-leopard-837177.hostingersite.com/event/dia-de-muertos-3.
Georgina Escobar is a playwright, director, educator, and librettist whose internationally produced work bridges speculative fiction, feminist sci-fi, and musical narrative. Born in Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, México, and raised in a matriarchal family, her stories center women, the frontera, and the unknowable – blending memory, myth, and the complex to craft bold, imaginative worlds. Renowned for her boundary-pushing voice, Escobar’s work explores identity, cultural inheritance, and the human condition through a distinctly feminist and Mexican lens. Escobar’s Off-Broadway credits include Then They Forgot About The Rest (INTAR, 2019) and Sweep (Lincoln Center Director’s Lab, 2016); Off-Off Broadway credits include Desaparecidas (JACK, 2022). Her work has been developed and presented at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center, NAMT, Clubbed Thumb Winter Fest, Bushwick Starr, Two Rivers, Milagro, Aurora Theatre, and more. Escobar is also a boundary-pushing voice in audio and film. Her short fiction has been featured on Girl Tales Podcast (Musings) and Talking While Female (And Then I Hit the Glass, Audible), with the latter earning the inaugural Gotham & Variety Audio Honors Award. As a librettist, she is the book & lyric writer of Little Duende (with Robi Hager), and the book writer of Desaparecidas (music by Jaime Lozano, lyrics by Lozano & Florencia Cuenca). She is currently developing Frida (with Jaime Lozano and Neena Beber and director Diane Paulus), Ritchie (featuring the music of Ritchie Valens & Los Lobos), and Vinyl Cafe: The Musical (with Akiva Romer-Segal, Colleen Dauncey, and Jess Milton). As a writer in various writing groups and workshops, her work includes Project Y, Clubbed Thumb, La MaMa Umbria, and Fornés. Escobar is active in artist advocacy and community engagement. She serves on the boards of the El Paso Holocaust Museum and Marfa Live Arts, and on the advisory committees for the Latinx Theatre Commons and the Climate Commons for Theatre and Performance.
Juliana Morales Carreño is a Colombian theater artist in search of spaces of communion through multilingual theatrical language, ensemble work and creación colectiva. She is co-founder of Anfibia Teatro, a theater company based in Bogotá. She has worked in theater and opera as a director, actor, producer, and playwright. Some of her productions include Kilele by Felipe Vergara at Yale School of Drama (2025); Makanaky by Juan Pablo Herrera Montoya (PELZ), at UNATC “I.L. Caragiale” in Bucharest, Romania (2023); Solo Mia (2020) by Juanpablo Gómez at Teatro la Maldita Vanidad; As One (2022), winner of the Ópera al Parque 2021 Grant, where she was Pedro Salazar’s associate director; Gianni Schicchi by Giacomo Puccini and The Seven Deadly Sins by Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht directed by Pat Diamond at the Yale Opera in 2024. Same year in which she translated, adapted and directed Hamlet, princesa de Dinamarca at the Yale School of Drama. She studied History and Literature with an emphasis in theater studies at Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá and the M.F.A in Theater Directing at Yale School of Drama where she was awarded the Julian Milton Kaufman Memorial Prize in directing.
