Paz Pardo

Using a combination of techniques stolen from sci-fi movies, experimental theater, and cooking blogs, Perpetual Motion weaves together English and Spanish, inviting the audience into an intimate experience in an alienated world. Staged in living rooms across the Americas, Perpetual Motion promises sci-fi expositions, gentle audience participation, and a brownie for everyone.

Duct Tape Girl & Fetish Chick Conquer the World is a cartoon whirlwind of earnest attempts at the impossible. Following the tumultuous relationship of Fetish Chick and her sidekick Duct Tape Girl as they fight villains, boredom, and audience-generated nemeses, this performance invites the question: given the choice, would you ever pick loneliness? A high-voltage immersive event featuring queer superheroes, audience participation, and bourbon. NYTheatre.com: "funny, tender...a supercharged story." Park Slope Stoop: "entertaining and evocative."

Ten years after tragedy drives a group of college friends apart, two are unexpectedly reunited. Ceci, fleeing a
broken relationship, tries to find a new home by moving in with Nina. But when their attempts to reconnect
uncover old wounds, Nina's repression is pitted against Ceci's self-destructive tendencies. RUBBERMATCH is an intimate exploration of complex, contemporary female friendships, examining questions of grief, sexuality,
and the pasts that haunt us. When can a friend's help become an act of violence?

Leah’s got writer’s block, Amber’s got ambition, Jake’s got it all (including your regular fear of slugs). Jake and Leah were hot-shot young poets when they left NYC for Jake’s professorship at Milton Tech, but now Leah’s working admin as Jake’s career skyrockets. So when fresh-faced Amber shows up, it’s only a matter of time before things get sticky. A play about threesomes, poetry, and slugs.

My father left Argentina in the 1970’s, a decade of coups and the beginning of the dictatorship. By the time I could speak enough Spanish to talk to my grandmother, her memories were moth-eaten by Alzheimer’s. I moved back to Argentina forty years after my father’s arrival in the US. What did my family miss in those four decades? What did my grandmother remember, before she forgot? A fragmented fable of identity, memory, and migration.

In this postmodern fever dream of Madame Bovary, Flaubert's 19th century protofeminist masterpiece collides with retro Americana and a future that's female. Emma Bovary's voracious desire cracks the facade of domestic life, unleashing a flood that challenges the constructs of femininity. Conceived by Valerie Redd for Wandering Bark Theatre Co.

PIONEERS OF THE FUTURE is a vicious romp through the politics of the personal. When Salome, daughter of two of America’s preeminent psychoanalysts, brings her new boyfriend Chuck home for Christmas, a lot more than figgy pudding awaits them. Granny’s gone senile. Mommy and Daddy want to talk about Salome’s vaginal lubrication issues. And Chuck may still be working for his old mentor Dr. Lester, an FBI man turned self-help guru with a plan to rid America of its scourge of intellectuals. A Christmas comedy about the impossibility of normalcy in the age of new normals.