A world premiere play by Nicholas Pilapil co-produced by Playwrights' Arena and Victory Theatre Center
LUCA & URI opens with a breakup between two men fiercely bound by love yet unable to hold on, tracing the fractured arc of their decade-long relationship in Los Angeles. As their dreams and desires pull them apart, their intimacy dissolves into quiet compromises and mounting silences, exposing the gradual erosion of self. Unfolding like a fractured memory through moments of tenderness, passion, and resentment, the play confronts the cost of staying, the quiet courage it takes to leave, and the heartbreak of loving someone so deeply you begin to disappear inside them.
- Starring: Kurt Kanazawa and Roland Ruiz
- Producers: Elmira Rahim and Maria Gobetti
- Scenic Design: Christopher Scott Murillo
- Lighting Design: Azra King-Abadi
- Sound Design: Jesse Mandapat
- Costume Design: Mylette Nora
- Dramaturg: Arnab Banerji
- Intimacy Choreographer: Giovanni Ortega
- Press Representative: Kiyomi Emi
- Press Photographer: Kelly Stuart
- Graphic Artist: Celina Taganas-Duffy
- Stage Manager: Letitia Chang