Dream Hou$e

Written by Eliana Pipes
Directed by Dylan Arredondo
Sep 11-Oct 5, 2025

Will death bring a family together or pull them apart? Two Latina sisters are appearing on an HGTV-style reality show to sell their family home, hoping to capitalize on the gentrification in their “changing neighborhood.” As they perform for the camera the show starts to slip into the surreal: one sister grapples with the turmoil of the family’s ancestral past and the other learns how much she’s willing to sacrifice for the family’s future. Dream Hou$e, which earned both the Kendeda Award and Steinberg Playwriting Award in 2021, is a crowd-pleasing comedy with a twist that asks: What is the cultural cost of progress in America? And is cashing in always selling out?

Meet the Artists

  • Eliana Pipes

    PLAYWRIGHT

    Eliana Pipes is a writer, filmmaker and actor based in her hometown of Los Angeles. Her plays include DREAM HOU$E (world premiere co-production Alliance Theatre, Long Wharf Theatre, and Baltimore Center Stage, published by Concord Samuel French); HOOPS (world premiere commission Milwaukee Chamber Theater); and BITE ME. She holds commissions from Two River Theater and South Coast Repertory. Her work has been developed or presented at the New York Theatre Workshop Dartmouth Residency, Playwright's Realm Scratchpad Series, South Coast Repertory Pacific Playwright’s Festival, NNPN National New Play Showcase, Old Globe Powers New Voices Festival, Fire This Time Festival, and Drama League DirectorFest. Her writing awards include the Dramatists Guild Foundation Fellowship, Alliance Kendeda Prize, Leah Ryan Prize, KCACTF Harold and Mimi Steinberg Award, National Latiné Playwrights Award, and Dr. Floyd Gaffney Award. As a filmmaker she's been awarded the Academy Gold Fellowship for Women through AMPAS, the WAVE Grant and Outfest x Colin Higgins Youth Filmmaker Grant. She was selected for the Orchard Project's Episodic Lab for her pilot THE YOUNG LORDS. BA English Columbia University, MFA Playwriting Boston University. www.elianapipes.com.

  • Dylan Arredondo

    DIRECTOR

    Dylan Arredondo is a DMV-based, Mexican-Japanese theatremaker concentrating on new work that defies form and prioritizes visual spectacle. As a director, his DC credits include: Flying V: Astro Boy & the God of Comics (Helen Hayes Nomination), Unexpected Stage: Fade; The Kaleidoscapes: TRACE; Rorschach: Klecksography (2020, 2023), 4615 Theatre Co.: Parlor Games. Associate directing: Spooky Action: Frontières Sans Frontières; Prologue: Monsters of the American Cinema; Rep Stage: Falsettos; Round House: Quixote Nuevo; INTAR: The Beacons. www.DylanArredondo.com @dmarredondo