Manifest Destiny is a darkly comic and genre-blending new play by Chilean writer Manuel Ortiz that reimagines Hamlet through the eyes of a queer immigrant in New York City. When a man’s long-dead father returns demanding vengeance, he’s drawn into a surreal, politically charged world where real-life Cold War conspiracies, including a 1970s assassination in Washington D.C., collide with soap-opera theatrics and satirical game shows. Rooted in the haunting legacy of Chile’s dictatorship and shaped by a uniquely queer perspective, the play blurs fact and fiction to examine justice, memory, and the ghosts that bind two nations. This is the second chapter in Ortiz’s American Mythology trilogy, following the acclaimed American Dream.