current projects
73 seconds
May 2026
Conceived, written, and performed by Jared Mezzocchi
Directed by Aya Ogawa
A solo performance about the stories we inherit—and the ones we almost never hear.
In 73 Seconds, multimedia artist Jared Mezzocchi cracks open the quiet mysteries of his family’s past. What begins as a son’s attempt to better understand his mother soon spirals into a decades-spanning excavation of memory, legacy, and the fragile line between the personal and the cosmic.
Mezzocchi, celebrated for his genre-defining projection design and hailed by The New York Times as “a leader in the virtual world,” now steps into the spotlight. Using analog technology from the 1980s—overhead projectors, VHS camcorders, and tube televisions—he constructs a live documentary, blending intimate storytelling with lo-fi magic.
Directed by Obie Award-winner Aya Ogawa, 73 Seconds is an inventive, deeply felt new work that asks how we piece together the past—especially when it resists being remembered.
Developmental workshop supported by the David M. Milch Foundation at the Catskill Arts Center.
A day to remember forever
october 2026
Written by Chuck Mee
Directed by Anne Bogart
Presented in Partnership with En Garde Arts, Brooklyn Academy of Music, & Downtown Brooklyn Alliance
The turtle story
December 2026
Written by Bill Martin
Directed by Seth Bockley
A homecoming. A haunting. A choice.
When a soldier long presumed dead walks back into his family’s life, the reunion isn’t a miracle…it’s an aftershock.
In The Turtle Story, written by Bill Martin and directed by Seth Bockley, love, faith, and delusion collide as a veteran tries to heal the home he left behind. Set in the hills of Western Massachusetts, this new play moves between the real and the mystical. There, the woman who moved on faces a choice: protect her new life, or open the door to the past.
Uncommon Voices
Projects in development
objects of decadce
Created and written by Chisa Hutchinson
Taxilandia:
fort greene, bed-stuy, east new york
Created and Conceived by Flako jimenez
Spanglish Sh!t
Book and Lyrics by Samora La Perdida
Music by Josiah Handelman, Matthew Zwiebel, and Mobéy Lola Irizarry
Produced by En Garde Arts
The revolution will be bilingual.
Brujita, a trans Puerto Rican witch, is on trial at the Supreme Court. The charge? Conjuring a storm of reckoning to blow the White House straight off the map. Pleading innocence, Brujita’s fiery testimony becomes a journey through memory, myth, and migration—from the lush hills of Puerto Rico to the cul-de-sacs of suburban New Jersey.
As the courtroom drama unfolds, so does a deeper reckoning: with colonization, queerness, family, and the whitewashed ghosts of her past. Bold, bilingual, and fiercely funny, Spanglish Sh!t is a spellbinding new musical that collides political satire with Caribbean folklore, courtroom fantasy with deeply personal truth, and ancestral memory with radical imagination.
Samora la Perdida (she/they) is a trilingual creator and performer. She starred in the 2022 Off-Broadway productions of Soho Rep’s Notes on Killing Seven Oversight, Management and Economic Stability Board Members, Quiara Alegría Hudes’ My Broken Language at Signature Theatre, as well as Tina Landau’s A Transparent Musical at the Mark Taper Forum in 2023. Her TEDxTalk, “Do Latines Need to Speak Spanish? Finding Your Lost Mother Tongue,” features spoken word and music from her upcoming bilingual brujería musical: Spanglish Sh!t. Spanglish Sh!t has been developed with Berkeley Rep, NYSCA and En Garde Arts. Her queer Spanglish rap opera, pato, pato, maricón, debuted at Ars Nova ANT FEST in 2018. Its tour of tristate area public schools was documented in the BRIC TV series Going in With Brian Vines. la Perdida graduated from LaGuardia HS as a YoungArts Presidential Scholar in the Arts, and from Carnegie Mellon University with a dual degree in Drama and Global Studies.
Who cares?
Created and written by Camilla Madero
In her newest project, tri-lingual Argentinian American actress, playwright, and illustrator Camila Madero captures the delicate and vital realities of intergenerational friendship. Inspired by real life experience and testimony, Madero tells the story of the deeply human bond between Carol, who navigates the fog of dementia; Lonny, her fiercely devoted husband, battling his own health issues while bearing the burden of primary care-giving; and Dalia, a young woman who must navigate her artistic ambition through an eye-opening encounter with the realities of elders aging, friendship, and care in the U.S. today. As these three New Yorkers are drawn together by a serendipitous chemistry and a shared passion for beauty, humor, and language, Madero’s piece explores intergenerational friendship as a lifeline in choppy waters.