La Potencia

by Mel Nieves

Directed by Paula Pizzi

An aging super light-weight club fighter, Roberta “La Potencia” Montoya after a devastating knock-out at the hands of a faster and much younger, Terri “Sweet & Sour” Jones must come to terms with the realization that she has come to the end of the road of the only kind of life skill she’s ever known, but her long-time manager, Joe Pacheco might have other plans for her future; to squeeze out one more fight for one last big payday to pay off a life threatening debt.

In Da’ Boogie Down

by Mel Nieves

Directed and co-developed by Paula Pizzi

Three desperate inner-city teens, Wilton Fernandez, Yazmin Garcia, and Jamal Faulkner find themselves at a crossroads in their young lives and must choose which path not to take. For Wilton, it’s a return home to a family that fears him and the hope for them not to. For Yazmin, it’s a search for a place where she can feel safe, protected, and loved. For Jamal it’s simply looking for a place to belong and to find who his true self is, but at what cost? Because in the South Bronx for these three teens the struggle to survive where not living beyond today is just another heartbreak and gunshot away.

Kiss

A zoom play

by Diana Burbano
Directed by Paula Pizzi

All the bad things

follows Fernanda, who lives in a small Greenwich Village apartment with her sick mother and her unemployed husband when she learns of her brother-in-law's recent conversion to the Mormon faith and that her rent-stabilized apartment is about to become de-stabilized.

by Cusi Cram
Directed by Paula Pizzi

5 pieces from Halcyon days

by Tom Gilroy
Directed by Paula Pizzi

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