dir. Carrie Hobson & Michael Yates
“Win or Lose,” Pixar Animation Studios’ first-ever original long-form animated series, follows the Pickles, a co-ed middle school softball team, in the week leading up to their championship game. Each episode offers a look inside the off-the-field life of a character—a player, their parent, the umpire—revealing their funny, emotional and always relatable point of view in a unique visual style.
“Ariana Mahallati as Mojdeh seems innocent, wide-eyed"
- Tim Teeman, The Daily Beast
“Mahallati gets touchingly starry-eyed”
- Jackson McHenry, The Vulture
“[S]trong, funny work from […] the show’s innocent, Mahallati. “
How to Defend Yourself at Victory Gardens Theater
dir. Marti Lyons
co-world premiere with Actors Theatre of Louisville
“Ariana Mahallati, who created this good-humored and totally engaging coed in Louisville, again plays Mojdeh. […] Ms. Mahallati is impressive".
- Colin Douglas, Chicago Theatre Review
“Many of the other characters in the play are less self-assured, but Andrea San Miguel and Ariana Mahallati also are able to show us not just the realities but the potential. They both are moving.”
- Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune
How to Defend Yourself at Actors Theatre of Louisville
as part of the 43rd Humana Festival of New American Plays
dir. Marti Lyons
co-world premiere with Victory Gardens Theatre