“I try to not take myself too seriously”
Part 1: “I’m here”
What happens when a child’s resilient spirit breaks right through the binary chains of intolerance defying the most ingrained platitudes?
We are in Midtown. The time is now. We see Luciano standing on a bare stage. He is very still, too upset to move, as though if he did, the whole world would collapse around him. Slowly, very slowly, his left foot goes back and his right foot goes forward and then back and then forward, and he begins to dance, whispering some internal tune that only he can hear. The stage starts turning revealing Annarella in her kitchen. She's wearing an apron with an arsenal of pockets. Everything everyone needs in this story comes in and out of those pockets. Everything…
Hopping on Rooftops
Written by Paula Pizzi-Black
Think you know your neighbors? Think again. With a heatwave gripping the city, a group of tenants find themselves locked out of their apartment building. As they wait for help, rising temperatures and flaring tempers bring out the best and worst of these motley strangers in this vibrant comedy about life, our day-to-day grind and the inevitability of chance.
LA ULTIMA
MANO
(a short film)
Written by Paula Pizzi-Black, based on a story by Ed Trucco
The Morning When
A zoom play
Written by Paula Pizzi-Black
pAtAville,
a staged cartoon.
Written by Paula Pizzi-Black
