La Medea
2020 / Performed, shot, edited, and simulcast in real time

Declared as "mythology's 'Nasty Woman'” by VICE, LA MEDEA re-imagines Euripides’ myth into a Latin-disco-pop-feminist variety show. The pervasive figure of the dangerous immigrant woman who vengefully murders her own children is shattered in this genre-bending multidimensional dismantling that rejects the limited gaze imposed on her for centuries. At once a made for camera live streamed film and an immersive musical, LA MEDEA was originally performed, shot, edited, and simulcast in real time. In-studio audiences and at-home-viewers, commenting in the live chat, acted as the "Greek chorus," bringing the live vulnerability of theater to the screen. 

Reviews
Brooklyn Paper: Dancing queen: ‘La Medea’ turns tragedy into disco TV
A modern-day Medea is mythology’s 'nasty woman'” VICE Creators Project
“As if Terrence Malick had directed a selfie.” HYPERALLERGIC
“Travieso flipped the switch on Euripides to the story’s bluff.” BeLatina
“La Medea dates back to 2014, before the #MeToo movement took off, before our current president was elected into office, before Dr. Ford told her story on live television. And yet, its message resonates ever more profoundly now.” Artburst

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