La Lengua produces contemporary theater with a pan-American perspective. Plays are mainly in Spanish (but also in English, bilingual and Indigenous languages of the Americas) while striving to offer opportunities for, and promote the work of, Spanish-speaking and bilingual artists in our community to normalize the use of languages other than English in the arts.

We commission playwrights to create original plays (e.g., Las Azurduy, 2022) or bring new plays to US audiences (e.g., Doméstica Realidad, 2023); we run a playwright residency every two years to develop short plays about the legacy of colonization in connection with other topics written in any of the languages of the Americas, which we then present in a live festival (Historias de Descolonización, 2022, 2024); we organize events, and produce media content, to showcase Spanish-speaking/multilingual artists and foster language justice (e.g., Festival, 2022 and 2024; Paradi$e, 2024).

We make a priority of offering paid professional opportunities at every stage of the process to Spanish-speaking artists, while producing high-quality original work.