JULIO AIN’T GOIN’ DOWN LIKE THAT

by C. Julian Jiménez DRAMA

13

ACTORS (DOUBLING, GENDER-NEUTRAL CASTING ALLOWED)

It is the morning after the brutal murder of Julio Rivera, a gay Puerto Rican man in Jackson Heights, Queens. The murder became the first gay hate crime tried in New York State during the 1990s. In JULIO AIN’T GOIN’ DOWN LIKE THAT, the community reacts and is taken on a journey of self-discovery by a fabulously unapologetic queen personifying the beauty and brutality of Jackson Heights.

C. Julian Jiménez (formerly known as J. Julian Christopher) is a Queer, Puerto Rican and Dominican playwright. Playwriting awards include: New Dramatist Residency, 2019/2020 Rita Goldberg Playwrights’ Workshop Fellow at The Lark, Pipeline Theatre Company PlayLab, Public Theatre Emerging Writers Group, and Best New Work Motif Award. Productions include: MAN BOOBS, NICO WAS A FASHION MODEL, and BUNDLE OF STICKS. He is a co-producer and co-writer of the hit web series, Bulk.