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Playwright
eppchez! is a Quaker, gender-expansive, Cuban & Jewish theater maker, vocalist, and designer. Eir positive obsessions include crushing white supremacy, co-creating liberated futures, belting surprisingly evocative lyrics, moving like a creature, and the design needs of gender-expansive people. In 2016 eppchez started up Alma's Engine; a process-focused production company/creative ministry developing eir new work across a variety of mediums—spreading whimsical and earnest dis-ease. Ey has self-produced 5 original plays through Alma’s Engine and collaborated as a writer, performer, and/or deviser with Philly companies such as Pig Iron, Simpatico, The Bearded Ladies Cabaret, Swimpony, and Applied Mechanics among others. eppchez has institutional connections to Wesleyan University (BA in theater & creative writing), Headlong Performance Institute, Play Penn (where ey is currently a member of The Foundry an emerging Philly playwright’s group), Azuka Theatre’s New Pages writer’s group, and Green Street Friends Meeting where ey worships on Sundays a few blocks from eir home in Philly’s Germantown neighborhood.