Artistic Statement

As an immigrant from Argentina raised in NYC, I have always lived between two worlds and two languages. This shared and thorny history between the US and Latin America – a legacy of dictatorships, economic imperialism, and disastrous neoliberal policies that I have inherited,– inevitably haunts my work. The only way I know how to exorcise these demons of history is to put them onstage. My plays juxtapose characters within their cultural legacies of colonization and nationalism that lie at the many-bordered heart of my “American” identity. To do so, I reach into the multiplicity of language and voice, the playfulness of ‘magical realism’ and the put the past and present in counterpoint with each other.

Julián Mesri

Artistic Statement

As an immigrant from Argentina raised in NYC, I have always lived between two worlds and two languages. This shared and thorny history between the US and Latin America – a legacy of dictatorships, economic imperialism, and disastrous neoliberal policies that I have inherited,– inevitably haunts my work. The only way I know how to exorcise these demons of history is to put them onstage. My plays juxtapose characters within their cultural legacies of colonization and nationalism that lie at the many-bordered heart of my “American” identity. To do so, I reach into the multiplicity of language and voice, the playfulness of ‘magical realism’ and the put the past and present in counterpoint with each other.