Exal Iraheta’s full-length play They Could Give No Name was part of Victory Gardens’ 2019 Ignition Festival of New Plays.

Exal Iraheta is a Salvi-American playwright and screenwriter from Houston, based in Chicago. He received an honorable mention for the 2019 Relentless Award, is a 2020 National Playwrights Conference finalist and a 2020 Judith Royer Excellence in Playwriting finalist. His short play Open Venas was produced in the 2019 Theater Masters’ Take Ten New York Short Play Festival and The Untold Collectiv’s 2019 Latinx Scratch festival in London, England. His full-length play Rules of a Closed Door was a semi-finalist for the 2019 Activate: Midwest New Play Fest. Recently, Exal was featured in the May/June 2020 issue of American Theatre magazine as part of its “People to Watch” list.