In the summer of 2023 I was offered to play Benedick in Shakespeare’s comedy Much Ado About Nothing produced by Teatro del Cigno and directed by Ilaria Carmeli.

The Prince’s soldiers have returned to Messina after neutralizing an uprising led by the Prince’s brother, Don Juan. With the threat of rebellion extinguished, Claudio can focus on love as he is promised to the lady Hero, and Benedick can continue his battle of wits with Hero’s cousin, Beatrice. Meanwhile, Don Juan’s resentment will shape into a plan to ruin Claudio’s and Hero’s marriage.

In Winter 2020 I got the opportunity to work with Et Alia Theater, a wonderful company founded and ran by international womxn, on the play On How to Be A Monster, written by one of the company’s founding members, Maria Müller. The play was performed at The Tank in New York City, and directed by Federica Borlenghi.

 Four couples discuss very important issues as they meet for a dinner party, but one of the guests disappears. Will they find out where she went? Will they find out what that sound is? And, more importantly, who will be the winner of the extremely friendly competition they are in?

Everything is ready for Con’s play to begin as the audience members take their seats. In Aaron Posner’s modern adaptation of Chekhov’s The Seagull, the audience embarks in a journey in which love, fame, and family will be analyzed and broken down as the calm routine of this country estate is upset by the many love triangles formed after the arrival of Emma, Con’s mother, and Trigorin, a famous writer and Emma’s lover. When Nina, Con’s love, starts dreaming of the fame represented by the writer Trigorin and falls in love everything starts falling apart.

During a Sunday afternoon in an apartment in Brooklyn, 7 people’s lives intertwine after an accident occurred. Evan has just been stabbed, and his sister Ellen calls her best friend Tessa to her apartment for further help after Evan’s fiancé Diane tried her best to patch him up. Along with Tessa comes Stanley, her “best friend,” whose feelings for the girl will be made explicit throughout the play. In the meantime, Mirabelle, Evan and Ellen’s neighbor, and Jerome, Ellen’s boyfriend, come into play, both guided by their hearts. The audience, through the lenses of a twisted Aesop’s fable, sees their deepest instincts and insecurities arise as their attempts to get what they want make them move further and further away from stability.