Friday, May 13, 2022, 2:30 PM
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Sunday, May 15, 2022, 2:30 PM

by Julián Mesri

Directed by Rebecca Martinez

An intrepid and revealing look at intimacy, revolution, and global identity, set within the paper-thin walls of a telo, a pay-by-the-hour sex hotel in the heart of Buenos Aires, three pairs of people across three eras of Argentine history find themselves torn between the personal and political in a perpetually changing and increasingly dangerous world. Repressed gay lovers in a tango bar, two sisters planning a terrorist attack, and a random hookup in the middle of an economic crisis are woven together in a narrative that crosses generations. Accompanied by a dynamic score that brings together tango, cumbia, and Latin rock, Telo connects the revolutions--big and small--of the past with what we face in the world today.

Cast

Christian Guerrero - LALO
Paula Rosen - MARTA
Maya Quiñones - PAULA
Elijah Moloney - CHARLI
Isaiah Garcia - NERO/FEDE
Madeline Jewell - EMI/DOLORES
Matt Pinto - STAGE DIRECTIONS

Creative Team

Producer Sean Anthony Chia
Dramaturg Annie Wang
Production Stage Manager Tesia Childs

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About the Artist

Julián Mesri is a New York-based Argentinean-American composer and writer who makes multilingual plays and musicals in the US and around the world. Recent work includes music directing/arranging Songs about Trains with Radical Evolution/Working Theater and Brian Quijada’s Somewhere Over the Border at Syracuse Stage. He is a current member of the Public Theater Emerging Writers Group and received a 2020-2021 EST/Sloan Commission. Upcoming work includes Favaloro (EST /Sloan First Light Festival). Mesri has been an Emerging Artist of Color Fellow at NYTW and a Van Lier fellow at Repertorio Español.

www.julianmesri.com