Everyday Inferno Announces Creative Teams for Dreams of Malinche and Gabriel

Everyday Inferno Theatre Company is pleased to announce the creative teams behind the forthcoming exploratory workshop productions of Dreams of Malinche and Gabriel. Both plays will rehearse in-studio for two weeks, culminating in an invited workshop performance.

In Nora Sørena Casey's Dreams of Malinche, worlds collide in a powerful coming-of-age story about the complex friendship between two young women growing up in small town Ohio. On the verge of high school graduation, Emily, a first generation Mexican-American, and her best friend Sarah begin to realize how much their futures have been dictated by their pasts. Entwined with the story of Malinche, Cortez's translator and mistress during his campaign against the Aztec Empire, this story delves deep into the Hispanic experience in the United States, the indigenous stories of the Americas, and the intricate histories that bind us.

Director Estefanía Fadul is a Colombian-born, New Hampshire-raised, NYC-based director and producer. Directing includes: The House of the Spirits by Caridad Svich (SUNY Purchase), Cell by Cassandra Medley (Drama League DirectorFest), así van los fantasmas de méxico by Matthew Paul Olmos and El Laurel de Apolo by Calderón de la Barca (Repertorio Español). She will next be directing the new Spanish-language musical Óye Oyá at Milagro Theatre in Oregon, and is developing new work with writers Tatiana Suarez-Pico, Krista Knight, and ElisaBeth Frankel. She has worked as assistant director to Rachel Chavkin (CSC), Ed Iskandar (the Flea), Jo Bonney (MCC) and Elise Thoron (Public Theatre), among others, and assistant produced Washeteria at Soho Rep. Estefanía is an alum of the Drama League Directors Project and the Van Lier Directing Fellowship at Repertorio Español, a member of the Lincoln Center Theatre Directors Lab, and a New Georges Affiliated Artist. B.A. Vassar College.

Playwright Nora Sørena Casey's full-length plays include Take the Car (Williamstown Theatre Festival), The Genius Project (Dixon Place), and Not Afraid (PowerOut), about a death-metal blogger The New York Times called "the kind of weirdo we want to root for." A frequent collaborator with The Motor Company, her site-specific plays include Derek and the Sheep, Intimate Bar Plays, and Absolutely Somewhere. She is the 2016 and 2017 Playwright-In-Residence with Athena Theatre Company's Athena Writes. Dramaturgy projects include the development of The Universe is a Small Hat by Cesar Alvarez (Joe's Pub, Prelude 2013, Babycastles); workshops of an untitled play by Jackie Sibblies Drury (Lark Studio Retreat); The In-Between by Kareem Fahmy (Noor Theatre's The Myth Project), and contributing to The Civilians cabaret Let Me Ascertain You: Holy Matrimony! (Joe's Pub).

What even is gender anyway? In Gabriel, playwright Francesca Pazniokas' updated interpretation of George Sand's classic play, a bright, perceptive teenager feels trapped in the confines of society's unyielding approach to gender. His family wants Gabriel to be one gender, while her lover wants Gabriel to be another. A rarely-produced romantic drama of misgendering, female repression, and discovery of personal identity, Gabriel is primed to speak to our modern world and current political climate.

Director Lizz Hudman is a Company Collaborator with Everyday Inferno. Recent directing credits include Doppleganged and Alice Blue as part of If on a Winter's Night..., an all-female adaptation of Measure for Measure with WEBroadway's Women's Work Festival, Noteworthy: A Night of Female Songwriters, and assistant directing Everyday Inferno's The Roaring Girl.

Playwright Francesca Pazniokas is a writer and musician whose work has been produced and developed in New York, Chicago, London and Melbourne. Recent credits include Everlast at Source Festival, Goodnight at The Actors Theatre of Louisville (Heideman Award Finalist), Spider Ice Ghost Heart Sea at Pipeline Theatre Company's Matchstick series, and SERIALS at The Flea. She is a member of Exquisite Corpse Company's Spring Writer's Lab and Pipeline Theatre Company's 2017 PlayLab. Francesca holds a B.A. from Georgetown University and a Master's in Playwriting from Royal Holloway (University of London).

Everyday Inferno Theatre Company creates adventurous theatrical productions of new or rarely produced texts with a focus on telling women's stories in a unique, entertaining, and accessible manner. We embrace and exceed the limitations of low-budget theatre, exploring nontraditional spaces, stagecraft, and storytelling. We are committed to developing a diverse audience by producing work that is large in scope while keeping our production costs (and ticket prices) at a minimum. Through our work, we prove that stories focused on women can be universally enjoyable and relatable. For more information, visit www.everydayinferno.com

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