juliany taveras

ELL, ELI, and ELLIE look different, sound different, maybe even smell different—but really, they’re one & the same. mind, body, spirit... OR, one that spins the thread, one that measures it, & one that takes off running with the scissors. you know, that sort of thing. anyway, dawn is breaking & it's two against one (or is it one for all?) as these three tackle what has become a dire issue in their relationship.

on the cusp of the 22nd century, in a city (or whatever it is that is left), a star-crossed, makeshift family of five is born. a meditation on how love & chaos behave when it feels like the world is falling apart, 'SYZYGY' is both a microscope on a handful of humans & a telescope on the world they struggle to survive in & care for. climate & cosmos; past & present; bodies & burdens; life & legacy—what does it mean for us if, in fact, the world has always been ending? how do we love? how do we fight?

sometimes running away means finding home, not leaving it behind. a coming-of-age journey that crosses borders & spans centuries, 'YAELIS' is a road trip, a fever dream, & an earth-shaking ancestral resurrection.

as kids growing up in new york city, nelly, alaida, and sol spent hot summer days daring, dancing, and documenting their way across boroughs, rivers, and storefronts. ten years later, time has seemed to warp everything, from their once-indestructible friendship to the landscape of the streets they used to call home. 'Desarrollo' is an unraveling—a discovery—of what happens to the people and the places we love when put under pressure; like film developing in the dark, their stories are ones of transformation, of capturing the moments that change us.

when we carry the pain of our histories and our loved ones in our blood, bruises are not so quick to fade. 'the anatomy of light' is a play about a young boy, a family, an island or two, and what it means to love and to lose. set in the brooklyn of the 21st century, it swims back and forth in time, exploring how there can be healing in the wake of broken bones, colorful bullets, and a mother gone—with fireworks bursting all the while.

a traverse stage. an afrolatinx ensemble of three (+1). a transparent wall. set in new york city, home of the neo-islanders, 'THE ORANGE LINE©' adapts the personal notebooks and legendary SAMO© graffiti of artist jean-michel basquiat as a means of exploring identity, art, and violence across time and space. through use of the phrases and poetics of basquiat's personal/street art—which have come to be perhaps just as widely known as his larger paintings—this one-act play unfolds as a conversation with the iconic black artist and the city in which he lived and died.