Costume Designer

Director

Playwright Ricardo Pérez González’s wickedly funny tragedy Don’t Eat the Mangos portrays life on his home island of Puerto Rico with compassion and humor through the saga of three sisters living just outside San Juan. As a hurricane approaches the beautiful island, secrets and ugly truths are revealed that cause the sisters to wrestle with how to stay true to their familia and homeland – and seek a satisfying revenge. Obie Award winner David Mendizábal returns from the acclaimed world premiere production to direct.

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Don’t Eat the Mangos

The Huntington Theatre

Don’t Eat the Mangos was developed, in part, at the 2019 Sundance Institute Theatre Lab.
Don’t Eat the Mangos was developed and supported through a partnership between The Sol Project and Magic Theatre.
Don’t Eat the Mangos was first produced as a National New Play Network Rolling World Premiere by the Magic Theatre (California).

Don't Eat The Mangos

Huntington Theatre Company

History meets hip-hop in Mexodus, an electrifying live-looping musical, composed in real-time by multitalented writer/performers Brian Quijada and Nygel D. Robinson. Mexodus explores the often-untold stories of the Underground Railroad that led south into Mexico. Don’t miss this groundbreaking, theatrical experience of resilience and resistance, celebrating the power of Black and Brown solidarity.

Mexodus

Berkeley Repertory Theatre

One of the most celebrated living writers of the Mexican-American experience, Octavio Solis pens a 21st-century tale inspired by John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath. William Joad has no heir to bequeath the family farm to — until he learns about Martín Jodes, a young Mexican-American migrant worker descended from Steinbeck’s protagonist Tom Joad. In a reversal of the Joads’ mythic journey, William and Martín embark on a road trip from California’s migrant farm camps back to Oklahoma, where they reckon with their brutal pasts and forge an unlikely bond. 

Mother Road

Peet's Theatre

An aristocratic Cuban family flees from Havana to Miami on the eve of Castro’s revolution, entrusting their mansion to their devoted cook Gladys who vows to protect it until their return. For forty years, she keeps her promise, enduring loss, upheaval, and the slow unraveling of a country’s dreams. But when the aristocrats’ daughter returns, Gladys finds she has sacrificed everything for a bond that has been forgotten. Berkeley Rep’s Associate Artistic Director David Mendizábal (All My Sons, Mexodus) directs Eduardo Machado’s sharp, funny, and quietly devastating play where two worlds are held in tension: the life carefully preserved, and the life that had to be lived.

Costume Designer, Director

David Mendizábal

Events

Upcoming events

Sep 4 - Oct 11, 2026

The Cook · Berkeley Repertory Theatre

Past events

Mar 26 - Apr 27, 2025

Don’t Eat the Mangos · Huntington Theatre Company

Mar 26 - Apr 27, 2025

Don't Eat The Mangos · Huntington Theatre Company

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