Performance Creation
Performance Installation, play production, playwriting, immersive theater arts, street performance, curation/scenography
Portal Juice- May 6 2018-
Art Klub New Orleans
An immersive performance installation piece in New Orleans Louisiana in which audience members navigated a labyrinth of triggers that explored human, machine, and animal qualities.
Read more about it here
Created by
Maya Pen and Cora Grove
Performed by
Daiqueri Jones, Maya Pen, Cora Grove.
Bawdy From the Border- November 2019, La Plante, Montreal
A performance series with presentations from community organizers, burlesque dancers, clowns, and puppeteers in support of asylum seekers/migrants/refugees, with a focus on raising money for a temporary migrant shelter in Tijuana, Movimiento Juventud.
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Curated by Maya Pen and Bettina Perez
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Poem written and performed by Maya Pen
Music composed by Dariel Peniazek
Performed by Sam Harris, Arturo Stable, Tim Brey
Philadelaphia Jazz Residency- Kimmel Center Philadelphia
This piece, "Our House"- June 2019, is a spoken word piece for migrant justice from a larger performance series--the Philadelphia Jazz Residency--in which Philadelphia jazz and Cuban rhythms were explored.
The Roots of Mardi Gras- March 2021
A "house float" / exhibition of the racist underbelly / the Black New Orleanians behind the creation of many white-washed and widely celebrated Mardi Gras traditions. This project was a commission from Tulane University.
Architects/conceptual designers: Brendan Surtain, Maddi Wells
Artists: Maya Pen, Sarah Bastacki, Langston Allston
Produced by Tulane University
One Fest- March 30 2018 - One Love New Orleans
An immersive theater experience featuring various artworks in the New Orleans community.
Performances written and directed by Maya Pen
Gallery curated by Maya Pen and Alia
Performed by Aakhu Dorman
Tongue in Cheek- December 16th 2017
Headlong Dance Studios, Philadelphia PA
With two looping performance pieces in two rooms of the space, an installation on the outdoor patio, and a large interactive gallery space in the main studio, this 48 artist show included bookmakers, sculptors, a self published book of Philadelphia poets, theater artists, industrial designers, mask makers---storytellers of all kinds.
Performances written and directed by Maya Pen
Gallery curated by Maya Pen and Mike Hoover
Stage managed by Cara Lisa Franz
Cash Operating Companions- 2016- present
New Orleans
An ongoing street performance project/social experiment created by Cora Grove, in which Maya Pen and Cora Grove perform a variety of characters on the streets of New Orleans, offering silent hand holding and active listening for $1 a minute.
The Agency- 2015
A two act play chronicling the experience of women in a dystopian future, in which men rent women to fulfill a variety of absurd roleplaying fantasies.
Written and directed by Maya Pen
Set design by Maya Pen
Costume Design by Alanna Lacy
Stage managed by Geaninna Riley
Produced by Marlene Goebig and performed by MyVision Theater Company
Muse- 2016, Temple University, Philadelphia
A one act play about the pretentious art scene in 1960s Manhattan art scene, and one man's obsession with the nonexistent subject of his work.
Written by Maya Pen
Directed by David O'Connor
Produced by Philly Young Playwrights