Ignite
by Morgan McGuire
dir. Tara Cristina Elliot
as part of the Hunter MFA Playwrights Festival
Ana is perfect on the surface: popular, star student, cheerleader. When she starts questioning the point of it all, it sets off a catastrophic chain of events involving a glitter-covered apparition, a Christian Youth Group, and a murky new friendship.
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.
How to Defend Yourself at New York Theatre Workshop
by Liliana Padilla
dir. Rachel Chavkin, Liliana Padilla, & Steph Paul
“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
by Liliana Padilla
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
by Liliana Padilla,
dir. Marti Lyons
as part of the 43rd Humana Festival of New American Plays
co-world premiere with Victory Gardens Theatre