When Lucia, a Mexican-born novelist, gets her first TV writing job, she feels a bit out of place on the white male-dominated set. Lucia quickly becomes friends with the only other Latino around, a janitor named Abel. As Abel shares his stories with Lucia, similar plots begin to find their way into the TV scripts that Lucia writes. Fade is a play about class and race within the Latinx community, as well as at large, and how status does not change who you are at your core.

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Lucia: A Mexican-born novelist newly hired to write for a television series in Hollywood. She is bright, tenacious, but also grappling with insecurities as a new writer and the challenges of being the only Latina in a predominantly white, male writer's room. While initially appearing somewhat naive and prone to assumptions based on shared ethnicity, she can also be manipulative and ambitious. Her initial experiences are marked by navigating the codeswitching between Spanish and English and the pressures of being perceived as a "diversity hire."

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Abel: A Mexican-American janitor working in the same Hollywood studio. Born and raised in Los Angeles, he's proud of his Mexican heritage and comes from a working-class background. He is initially guarded and aloof but beneath that facade lies a compassionate and passionate individual with an honorable yet painful past. He's a former Marine and has experienced incarceration, carrying the weight of his personal history. 

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