PLAYWRIGHT AND ESSAYIST
As a writer, Lucia’s work focuses on spotlighting young women, mental illness, queerness, and mixed-identities. In Northwestern’s creative nonfiction program, Lucia studied under Daisy Hernandéz, John Bresland, and Rachel J Webster. Currently, Lucia is working towards her playwriting certificate under the teachings of Laura Schellhardt and Julie Marie Myatt.
Published Work
Lucia’s poem, alicia, with love, was published in Helicon Magazine’s Winter 2022 issue.
the mad girls developmental reading, March 4, 2023.
LUCIA’S WORK
Plays in Progress
Mijita (full-length dramedy, 4f)
Hollywood actress, Carmen Diaz, earns a second act in her career when she is nominated for The Award, with help from her daughter-turned-manager, Camila. But when Carmen’s estranged mother arrives with news of a genetic illness, three generations of women must unite as their futures are thrown into orbit. Caretaking, cancer, and Kim Kardashian come together in Lucia Padilla Katz’s surrealist dramedy, Mijita.
SCRIPT UPON REQUEST
the mad girls (full-length drama, 3f, 2m)
Chiara and her best friend Margot await an already late Gus, Chiara’s boyfriend, on her twenty second birthday. Meanwhile, Gus spends an intimate night with his childhood best friend, Olivia. As the night progresses, Chiara’s mind jumps to the memories of high school with Gus, Margot, and Olivia: a sixteenth birthday, a trip to the mall, and a faded, violent memory with Gus. Relationship boundaries blur and storylines converge as Chiara comes to terms with a sexual assault. Skipping back and forth in time in a relationship-driven narrative, The Mad Girls looks at the origin of a partner rape in a post Me Too world.