Matthew B. Cullen Theatrical Research and Development LLC (mbc theatrical r&d) is a producing company dedicated to the development of new work by investing in a process focused practice.

The process is facilitated through a series of programs offered to artists. These programs are not limited to writers, but include directors, choreographers, designers, and devisers.

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Untitled Superhero Play

By Alexis Elisa Macedo

Coming from a long line of superheroes disguised as campesinos, Maricela dreams of the day she’ll have the superpowers her family has hidden. When Maricela is pulled from the fields into public school, her family fears their secret identities will be exposed as Maricela struggles to fight for what she believes is right in a world she doesn't understand.

PAYASITA

By Gretta Marston & Daniel Cano

PAYASITA is a bilingual musical clown piece about heartbreak, self-reconstruction, and the search for belonging. Payasita arrives onstage with only a suitcase and a fragmented sense of who she is. With the audience’s help, she retraces her past—where she came from, what she’s lost, and what it might mean to begin again.

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What Oppenheimer (2023) Did Not Show You

By Katsuto Sakogashira

Inverting OUR TOWNS three act structure, WHAT OPPENHEIMER (2023) DID NOT SHOW YOU follows a family navigating an ordinary morning on August 6th, 1945, Hiroshima. When that morning is quickly changed by an instant moment of death, the daughter, city, and country must learn how to heal and reconstruct.

The Beautiful Game

By Mario Vega

High School soccer prodigy, Estella Valencia, learns that her father bet her hand in marriage over a Chivas match decades ago. When her fiance shows up at her doorstep she has to help him assimilate while also getting ready for the Big Game (and the Big Dance & and the Big Test that precede it).