Paz Pardo

Paz Pardo

Paz Pardo is stepping out into the wide world with a newly minted MFA from Michener Center for Writers at The University of Texas at Austin. Plays include Movimiento Perpetuo/Perpetual Motion, which she has performed in 11 cities in three countries; Duct Tape Girl and Fetish Chick Conquer the World (BootStrap Theater Foundation, New York City); Rubber Match (RED CARAVAN, NYC) and Milton, MI (Bay Area...
Paz Pardo is stepping out into the wide world with a newly minted MFA from Michener Center for Writers at The University of Texas at Austin. Plays include Movimiento Perpetuo/Perpetual Motion, which she has performed in 11 cities in three countries; Duct Tape Girl and Fetish Chick Conquer the World (BootStrap Theater Foundation, New York City); Rubber Match (RED CARAVAN, NYC) and Milton, MI (Bay Area Playwrights Festival Finalist, 2016). Most recently, YOU/EMMA (conceived by Valerie Redd, written by Paz Pardo) premiered at IRT with Wandering Bark Theatre Co. in New York City. Translations with Enrique Lozano include the English translation of Mosca by Fabio Rubiano and the Spanish translation of Arreglando al Rey Juan by Kirk Lynn. Her writing has appeared in the Brooklyn Review, Encountering Ensemble (ed. John Britton) and Howlround. B.A., Stanford. Fulbright Award, Buenos Aires, 2012.

Plays

  • Milton, MI by Paz Pardo
    Recommendations: 1
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    Cast: 
    4–10
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    Genre: dark comedy, drama + 1 more
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    Keyword: poet, polyamory + 1 more
    Genre: dark comedy, drama, experimental
    Keyword: poet, polyamory, writers
    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.
  • Ciertas astillas/Certain Shards by Paz Pardo
    Recommendations: 1
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    Cast: 
    4
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    Genre: drama, experimental
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    Keyword: migration, Alzheimer's Disease + 4 more
    Genre: drama, experimental
    Keyword: migration, Alzheimer's Disease, latinx women, identity, argentina, Immigrants
    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...
    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.
  • YOU/EMMA by Paz Pardo
    Recommendations: 1
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    Cast: 
    1
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    Genre: adaptation, experimental
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    Keyword: Flaubert, Madame Bovary
    Genre: adaptation, experimental
    Keyword: Flaubert, Madame Bovary
    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 by Paz Pardo
    Cast: 
    5
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    Genre: comedy, dark comedy
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    Keyword: christmas, psychoanalysis + 1 more
    Genre: comedy, dark comedy
    Keyword: christmas, psychoanalysis, anti-intellectualism
    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...
    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.
  • Perpetual Motion/Movimiento perpetuo by Paz Pardo
    Cast: 
    1
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    Genre: dark comedy, experimental + 1 more
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    Keyword: aliens, alienation + 1 more
    Genre: dark comedy, experimental, science fiction
    Keyword: aliens, alienation, audience engagement
    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 and Fetish Chick Conquer the World by Paz Pardo
    Cast: 
    3
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    Genre: adventure, drama + 3 more
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    Keyword: queer, Lesbian + 2 more
    Genre: adventure, drama, experimental, immersive, science fiction
    Keyword: queer, Lesbian, superhero, audience engagement
    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,...
    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."
  • RubberMatch by Paz Pardo
    Cast: 
    2
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    Genre: drama
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    Keyword: queer, closeted + 1 more
    Genre: drama
    Keyword: queer, closeted, LGBTQ
    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...
    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?