Buenos Aires New York
In Motion
a series of works by Romina Paula
April 17-May 2, 2026
FIRST LOOK SERIES@ THEATERLAB
work in progress presentation
April 25, 2006 at 2:00pm & 7:30pm
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TORN PAGE
April 29, May 1 & 2, 2026 at 8:00pm
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SHADOWS, OF COURSE
by Romina Paula
Translated by April Sweeney and Brenda Werth​
a new English translation in progressreading + moderated discussion with Romina Paula
April 20, 2026 at 6:30pm ​
CREATIVE TEAM
Romina Paula
Playwright & Director
Romina Paula is an Argentine artist who thrives in diverse creative roles as playwright, film actor, theater director, filmmaker, and novelist. Her plays include Sombras, por supuesto (2023), Cimarrón (Rewilding, 2016), Fauna (2013), El tiempo todo entero (The Whole of Time, 2009), Algo de ruido hace (The Sound It Makes, 2008). In 2019 Paula made her debut as filmmaker with De Nuevo Otra Vez which won the San Sebastian Film Festival Horizontes Award.
Paula has published four novels, ¿Vos me querés a mí? (2005), Agosto (2009), Acá todavía (2016), Hija biográfica (2025), and a collection of short stories, Archivos de Word (2021). Her novel Agosto was translated into English by Jennifer Croft and was published by The Feminist Press at CUNY (2017). Fauna and Other Plays was published by Seagull Books (2023) and translated into English by Jean Graham Jones, April Sweeney, and Brenda Werth.
BEN BECHER
PERFORMER
Ben Becher was born and raised in New York, where he’s worked in downtown and Off-Broadway theater, including Tis Pity She’ a Whore, Letters to Sala, and The Whole of Time, which received a Drama Desk Award nomination. Regionally, he performed in Sam Shepard’s Curse of the Starving Class at Long Wharf Theater. He has trained in the US, UK and Argentina. On screen, he’s appeared in Before You Know It (Sundance), American Thief (Amazon), and I Need Your Love (Tribeca, Slamdance Jury Prize). His television credits include Law & Order: SVU, and he recently wrapped the feature The Down.
Denise Groesman
Performer
Denise Groesman is visual artist and actor from Buenos Aires who studied at the National University of the Arts (UNA). She has participated in group exhibitions and fairs in Argentina, Chile, France, and the United States. Groesman’s solo exhibitions include: Isla Flotante (2012/2014), Otero (2015), Big Sur (2017), UV Estudios (2018), Teatro Nacional Sarmiento (2018), El Bucle - Rosario (2019), Moria Galería (2019/2022) and Móvil Arte Contemporáneo (2021). In 2020 and 2022, she curated and produced “El sol por atrás" Art Festival at Parque los Andes, Buenos Aires. For over ten years, she has been teaching art classes in her studio and in the park. In film and theater, she has worked with Lola Arias, Agostina Lopez, Paula Hernandez, Agustina Munoz, Mariana Oberstern, Romina Paula, among others.
Jose Scaro
Performer
Josefina Scaro is an Argentine actress, dancer, and producer based in New York whose work spans film, television, and theater across Latin America and the United States. She made her North American film debut in American Thief (2021), which screened at international festivals and is now available on Amazon Prime. Her recent screen work includes the feature films Farewell (dir. Teresa Costantini) and Legal (dir. Daniel Arango), both set to premiere in 2026. Her work has received international distribution across platforms including MUBI, Hulu, Apple TV, and Cine.ar, among others. In theater, she recently starred in the 2025 Drama Desk nominated Off-Broadway production The Whole of Time, directed by Tony Torn. Through her collaborations with the Segal Center and Torn Page, she contributes to ongoing artistic exchange between Latin America and New York.
April Sweeney
Performer
April Sweeney is an actor and theater director whose work has been seen in theaters and festivals in Europe, Latin America, and the U.S. Over the last two decades she’s worked in regional theater, a national tour, off-Broadway and downtown NYC. As a director she has created intimate chamber and site specific works, a four episode transmedia performance memoir with Sauda Jackson, staged new and old plays in the U.S. and abroad, and created theater with communities in Argentina and Bolivia. Her work has been supported by the National Endowment of the Arts, National Endowment of the Humanities, New York State Council of the Arts, and the New York City Women's Fund for Media, Music, and Theatre. April is a Professor of Theater at Colgate University.
Brenda Werth
Translator
Brenda Werth is Associate Professor Latin American Studies and Spanish at American University. Her research interests include Latin American theater, performance, documentary film, feminist movements, memory studies, and translation. She is co-editor with Katherine Zien of Bodies on the Front Lines: Performance, Gender and Sexuality in Latin America and the Caribbean (2024). She is also co-translator (with April Sweeney and Jean Graham-Jones) and co-editor (with April Sweeney) of the anthology, Fauna and Other Plays by Romina Paula (2023). Her book, Fictions of the Real: Synergies Between Screen and Stage, is forthcoming with The University of Michigan Press (2026).