FEMPATHS
= an upcoming kaleidoscopic cabaret fantasia through trans expression performed by Mari Mo. Using found texts from Marsha P Johnson, sexual assault survivors’ rights activist/performance artist Emma Sulkowicz, Kim Petras, 12 y/o transboy Ari Bowman as well as my own works, Fempaths broadens the understanding of the trans experience as well as expands the narrative of what a trans story can be. From “heros” to “whores”, Fempaths loudly demonstrates the radically different paths trans people forge in America today. We are never just one thing (and neither is cabaret).
* Preview recorded live February 2023 at The Duplex NYC.
Being Ariodante
= a new opera directed by Mari Moriarty & written by Jonathan Dawe. The opera premiered May 2022 at The Italian Academy of Columbia University, NYC.
Jonathan Dawe’s new opera explores the intersections between gender, sexuality, and ability in contemporary Glasgow. He pays homage to the romance of Handel’s 18th century opera while forcing audiences to reckon with the randomness and brutality of living in today’s world. The story is told in Italian, English, and American Sign Language and follows the twenty-something opera-obsessed Ariodante as he fights to live a life different from the character of Ariodante in Ariosto's Orlando Furioso that he's convinced he's destined to play. Featuring deaf and hard of hearing artists on and off the stage, Being Ariodante represents a new wave of what contemporary opera can be.
