Beheading Columbus

Directed by Melissa Crespo

Advance Gender Equity in the Arts (AGE), in partnership with Profile Theatre, presents a staged reading of Beheading Columbus by Diana Burbano. Diana Burbano is an inaugural AGE Legacy Playwright Grant recipient.

Synopsis: Beheading Columbus follows two sisters down a trail of DNA deception and makes them face race and colorism in the Latinx community and in their own family. Lana is white passing, Susi isn’t, and that's been a point of conflict their whole life. Through DNA testing they discover that Lana has a white father. The DNA test also reveals that Susi, who is mixed race, has the genes for the Alzheimers that is destroying their mother. Add to that, they discover that the previously unknown other father is a fertility doctor who has sired at least 40 mixed race children. Through love and a massive sense of humor, the sisters work at decolonizing themselves from the inside out.

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