Cold War

Written by Fermin Rojas

Augie, a Cuban-American playwright who grew up in the 1960’s, and his husband are about to embark on a summer reunion with their longtime friends in the Catskills to celebrate Augie’s commission of a new play. But when Augie receives some life-altering news his doomsday clock begins ticking ever closer to midnight, threatening the end of his career, relationships, and memories.

Fermin is a producer/filmmaker, actor, writer and co-founder of DKR Films. DKR’s award-winning documentaries include Alumbrones, The Black Mambas and King Philip’s Belt : A Story of Wampum, which screened at The Smithsonian Institute’s National Museum of the American Indian. Narrative film credits include executive producer for The Ali’i King, written and directed by Christine Kunewa Walker. He has authored numerous ten-minute plays, books for musicals and monologues for the stage. Along with husband Jay Kubesch, Fermin produced Cuba’s first and only gay men’s singing ensemble Mano a Mano.

The Truro Playwright Collective is a group of established, local playwrights who present staged readings of their full-length works once a month from October through March.

Funding in part by the Arts Foundation of Cape Cod