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Lori Felipe-Barkin

2025 Resident Playwright at Conference

Lori Felipe-Barkin is a playwright, performer and voiceover artist based out of NYC and Miami who works in English and Spanish. She is the Page 73 Fellow for 2025 and is part of their 2025 Writers Group. Flor Underwater, her three-act play, received a developmental reading at The Flea. It was also selected for the 2020 Play Penn New Play Conference, received an Honorable Mention for the 2021 Terrence McNally Award, and was a finalist for the 2023 Risk Theatre Award, the 2023 Austin Film Festival Playwriting Competition, and the 2024 Royer Award. She has had play readings at Playwrights Horizons for Out There in the West, and at INTAR Theatre and Iati Theater for Ama. Egg. Oy Her short play, The Peepholeman, premiered at BAM as part of the 2024 Weasel Festival. She holds an MFA in playwriting from Brooklyn College.

History at PlayPenn

2025

Ama. Egg. Oyá.

Ama. Egg. Oyá. follows Ama, a determined woman in Hialeah, Florida, on her relentless journey to motherhood. Weaving together Santería, the pulse of modern-day Miami, and the rich rhythms of Cuban culture, this powerful story explores infertility, faith, and the deep longing for creation.

2020

Flor Underwater

In Florida the water is rising, the climate is changing, and Flor and her children are looking to get theirs before it all goes to shit.

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