Creating Conversations: A Fringe Artists Performance Series

Creating Conversations: A Fringe Artists Performance Series is a performance event to be held in the Black Box Theatre at the Schwartz Center for Performing Arts highlighting two performers: award winning artist Christopher Moncayo Torres presents “Habla y te Salvas: True Stories of a No-Sabo Kid from Queens and his Guayaco Dad” and broadway actor and Yale MFA graduate Arturo Luíz Soria presents his solo show “Ni Mi Madre.” This event has been programmed to highlight stories of artists from marginalized communities, and to allow Cornell performing arts students to engage in a dialogue with these artists, who write and produce their own work, in a talk-back / Q&A after the showings. Christopher Moncayo-Torres is an Ecuadorian-American playwright, teaching artist and live storyteller, born and bred in Queens, NY. He is the co-founder of Fail Better NYC, a BIPOC-CUNY centered community of multi-disciplinary art-makers who safely experiment together with their unfinished, messes-in-progress through free workshops. He produced and hosted the monthly live storytelling-workshop show, Fail Better Storytime. He is also a Moth StorySLAM winner who has been featured on The Moth Radio Hour podcast and he is currently one of their instructors. Arturo Luíz Soria is an Obie Award winning actor and writer with Brazilian, Ecuadorian, Italian, and Dominican roots. Arturo made his Broadway acting debut in The Inheritance (Tony Award for Best Play) and he was also seen off-Broadway in the World Premiere of Wet Brain (Playwrights Horizons) and the World Premiere of Hit the Wall (Barrow Street Theatre). His solo show, Ni Mi Madre, premiered at Rattlestick Theater and was nominated for a Drama Desk Award, Outer Circle Critics Award, a Drama League Award, and won the Obie Award for Best Performance. He was commissioned by Rattlestick Theater with the support of an NYSCA grant to write a follow up solo show called, Sin Padre.

Cornell Students Create Club | Website | View More Events

Contact the organizers