Playwright Matthew Paul Olmos, director Lee Sunday Evans, and composer Marios Aristopoulos will develop So Go the Ghosts of Mexico, Part II, a theater work for five women playing men who run two warring Mexican drug cartels, highlighting the U.S.’s role in a culture of escalating destruction.

Matthew Paul Olmos
Matthew Paul Olmos was born and raised in Los Angeles to a police officer and labor/delivery nurse. He is a three-time Sundance Institute Fellowship/Residency recipient (2014 Lab, 2013 UCROSS, 2009 Time Warner Storytelling Fellow), New Dramatists Resident Playwright, the 2012 Princess Grace Awardee in Playwriting and was recently named by Sam Shepard as the inaugural recipient of the La MaMa e.t.c.'s Ellen Stewart Emerging Playwright Award.

Lee Sunday Evans
Lee Sunday Evans is a director and choreographer. Her upcoming projects include A Beautiful Day on the Banks of the Greatest of the Great Lakes by Kate Benson (New Georges in association with Women’s Project). As the resident director for CollaborationTown, Evans conceives and directs original works of ensemble-based devised theater.

Marios Aristopoulos
Marios Aristopoulos is a composer and sound designer from Athens, Greece. He moved to New York City in 2012 and has since worked with many great directors and playwrights such as Neil LaBute, Fred Berner, Tina Howe, Wendy Kesselman, Matthew Paul Olmos and Lou Moreno.
Composite Slide and Upcoming page photos: Olmos by Chantel Cherisse Lucier / Evans by Andrew Kluger / Aristopoulos by Javier Mateo