The following are samples of my work from recent productions in New York, Mexico City, and Berlin.
(For a full list of credits click below to download my resume.)
The Medusa Moment
Maze Nightclub, Berlin
Two women in search of Medusa find her in fantasies that can freeze men to stone. They bark ancient curses of jealousy and visit the garden of petrified lovers. A devised theater work about lost love and all other personal rubbish.
Directed by Andreas Robertz
Father God, Mother Death
Downtown Urban Arts Festival, NYC
A poetic lamentation of a Mexican gay son mourning the loss of his mother.
Written by Mario Golden
Directed by Andreas Robertz
See the Theater Trailer here
Charlotte’s Song / El Canto de Carlota
Theater for the New City/Teatro Flamboyán, NYC, New York
A performance-based experimental work that explores a daughter’s reality of growing up with her schizophrenic mother and how that impacted her life and healing process. Staged in English and Spanish.
Written by Nancy Ferragallo
Directed by Andreas Robertz & Mario Golden
See the Theater Trailer here
Exile is My Home
Theater for the New City, NYC
Told as a sci-fi, post-apocalyptic fairy tale, this play tells the haunting story of Mina and Lina, a refugee couple from the Balkans traveling through the galaxy in search of a planet to call home.
Written by Domnica Radulescu
Directed by Andreas Robertz
See the Theater Trailer here
Deceit
Theater for the New City, NYC
One man, three lives – a story of deceit and how we enable the lies of our loved ones.
A dark Comedy written by Richard Ploetz
Directed by Andreas Robertz
Negative is Positive
Theater for the New City, NYC
Negative Is Positive is a full-length dramedy that centers on a newly married, upwardly mobile, interracial couple in New York City that appears to be leading an idyllic life until the wife takes an HIV test and is blind-sided by the results. Issues of trust, failed expectations, jealously, friendship, resentment, race, social class, and infidelity bubble to the surface.
Written by Christy Smith-Sloman
Directed by Andreas Robertz
Angel of the Poor
Exit Theater, San Francisco
This witty and insightful comedy tells the story of Marc Maló, a cut-rate undertaker that successfully runs a low-end funeral home and calls himself “Angel of the Poor”. Every time he and his wife show up at a celebration, somebody dies, so people begin to avoid his company and instead call him the “Angel of Death.”
Written by Clemens Berger,
Directed by Andreas Robertz
The Boxer’s Son
Theater for the New City, NYC
Mayito, an innocent young boy growing up in Mexico City during the 1970’s amidst family dysfunction and political violence, longs to meet his father, who abandoned him before he was born. His family conceals his father’s identity, instead spinning a destructive web of lies.
Written by Mario Golden
Produced by Mario Golden & Andreas Robertz
Directed by Andreas Robertz
See the Theater Trailer here
Birmingham Reunion
LaGuardia Performing Arts Center, NYC
In the turbulent summer of 2008 Arthur Holtzman, a longtime political and social activist, struggles to keep his 20 year interracial marriage afloat with Sylvia, an increasingly impatient lawyer. Neglect, mistrust, and resentment, rooted in the traumatic crucible of American apartheid and slavery, prove too formidable an opponent. This play was devised based on autobiographical material by an ensemble including actors who are descendants of slaves and slave owners. Together they examined how the history of the Trans-Atlantic slave trade, slavery, segregation, and desegregation in America affects them today.
Written by George E. Joshua
Produced and directed by Mario Golden & Andreas Robertz.
See the Theater Trailer here
Lunas’ Bracelet
Ehemaliges Jüdisches Waisenhaus, Berlin, Germany.
At a celebratory gathering one evening five German women discover inconsistencies in the story of a family heirloom. As they try to unveil the secrets and reconstruct the love story between Luna, a Jewish Argentinean, and a German woman, their own lives are turned upside down. This play and “Searching for a New Sun” were devised based on autobiographical material by an ensemble of actresses who are descendants of perpetrators and victims of the Nazi regime. Together they examined how this history shapes their most personal and intimate relations today.
Written by Mario Golden and Beate Haeckl
Produced and directed by Andreas Robertz & Mario Golden.
The Love of Brothers / Amor de Hermanos
Theater for the New City, NYC/Centro Cultural de la Diversidad, Mexico City
Two gay siblings venture into dangerous and uncharted waters as they reproduce scenarios of their childhood traumas in order to heal each other psychically, leading them to incestuous acts. Staged in English and Spanish.
Written by Mario Golden
Produced by Mario Golden & Andreas Robertz
Directed by Andreas Robertz
The Pillowman
Artheater, Cologne, Germany
Martin McDonaugh’s dystopian play about the freedom to tell our stories and the responsibility to live with its effects.
Directed by Andreas Robertz
See the Theater Trailer here
