Roi Escudero

ROI ESCUDERO is an award-winning conceptual performance artist who uses her background in visual arts and theatre to create post-modern theatrical works and immersive spectacles. Roi is a citizen of the U.S., born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Roi’s paternal grandmother, Reyes, a fantastic storyteller, opened the little girl’s imagination. Roi’s parents, art lovers themselves, sent Roi to learn art with the renowned visual artist Juan Battle Planas and dance with Natacha Albrich and Maria Fux. Roi stayed with Fux into adulthood. She learned Littérature Française and costume Design with Janette & Elvirette Kinot and her mother Nené Laplacette. She experienced the Instituto Di Tella’s art happenings. Pop artist Edgardo Gimenez, created a lithograph for Roi’s firth conceptual installation of performance-art at Nordiska: Los Que Se Disfrasan de Sol con Alfileres de Gancho. This lithograph is part of the MoMA’s New York collection. Roi continued her training in performance-art, writing and direction with Argentinian masters such as Carlos Gandolfo, Alberto Ure, Salo Vasochi, voice with Carlos Capdevila and film director Alberto Fisherman, who taught Roi screenplay writing. Her musical play Donald Sol y Luna Scored by Donald Mc Cluskey won el Gauchito de Plata. Odeon and RCA Argentina produced her songs and records. Roi learned experimental theater with Guliano Vasilico, in Rome, Italy. In the USA Roi studied TV production at H.S.B.H. Studio, Ca; Traveling Theater with Cuban director Osvaldo Praderes in NYC and attended The School of Visual Art, NYC. Renowned playwright Mario Fratti was her playwright mentor. Roi’s artwork including her performance-art plays and documentary-visual theatre have appeared at The Art Museum Council Gallery at the Los Angeles County Museum (LACMA), Los Angeles International Open Festival, The Charlie Chaplin Space L.A., The Contemporary Museum, Baltimore, The Spanish Institute NYC and other cultural institutions and art galleries. Roi is the creator of performance-art-cinema™, (Theatre-Media) an immersive work containing installation art, multimedia, cinéma vérité, and live performance. Her vision paved the way for multimedia-theatre through her award-winning and nominated Connected Series BUBULINOS’ DREAMS and the ANTONIN ARTAUD Series. In New York Roi Escudero’s theatrical work has been presented at the FRINGE Festival, FRIGID New York, The New York Musical Theatre Festival (NYMF), The Planet Connections Theatre Festivity (PCTF), Midtown International Theatre Festival, IATI Theater (Tertulias), American Theatre of Actors (ATA), Center for Remembering and Sharing (CRS), chashama Gallery and other events and site-specific installations, including The Indie Theater Fund. Roi creates theatrical installations for patrons of the art and art collectors. Her soft sculptures and puppets known as Bubi’s Dolls are part of international art collections, including those of Joan and Frederick M. Nicholas, Marcia Simon Weisman, Nancy Epstein, Count Giuseppe Panza di Biumo, Italian Designer Valentino and others.

ETdC PROJECTS’ Lab: Roi Escudero is the Founder, Creative Producer/Lead Designer and Artistic Director of the awards-winning ETdC Projects' Lab. ETdC Projects’ Lab’s productions and its artists in residence have received in total 31 PCTF award nominations, 13 of which became Award wins, including several for Outstanding Overall Production. ETdC Projects' Lab supports all the colors of the rainbow, its multilingual and multigenerational creative team gives opportunities to American artists to work with the community of International artists residing in the USA and beyond. The Lab collaborates with artists living in other parts of the world, networking art, culture and knowledge via technology and travel. The projects developed in the lab have an Eco-friendly and humanistic approach based in multiculturalism, ethics and aesthetics. Its objective is to promote cultural and creative integration through documentary theatre, performance-art, physical-theatre, visual art, video, music and dance. ETdC Projects’ Lab uses all these aspects to create immersive dynamic spectacles. The Artists in residence at ETdC Projects’ Lab come from: Argentina, Brazil, Peru, Japan, Romania, Russia, Puerto Rico, Republica Dominicana, Italy, France, Spain and the USA.

ETdC Projects’ Lab: AWARDS and NOMINATIONS include: The 11th DIMENSION which received a 2019 IT Award Nomination from the prestigious New York Innovative Theater Awards for Outstanding Performance-art Production. Roi also won for The 11th DIMENSION the 2018 Planet Connections Theatre Festivity AWARD for Outstanding Experimental Playwright, plus 3 NOMINATIONS: Outstanding Overall Production, Direction and Costumes Design. Flow (2016) won The Greener Planet Award for its use of recycled material in set and props, the PCTF AWARD for Outstanding Scenic Design and Performance-art-Multimedia-Projections. NOMINATIONS: Outstanding Direction, Costume Design. Artaud...mon mômo (2013) won the PCTF AWARD Outstanding Multimedia Event, Video and Projections. NOMINATION: Outstanding Direction. B=Essence (2012) NOMINATION: Outstanding Multimedia Event, Video and Projections. 11 Seconds of Ecstasy! (2010) won the PCTF AWARD for Outstanding Performance-Art-Multimedia Event, Use of Projections and Special Effects. NOMINATIONS: Outstanding Overall Production of a New Play, Direction, Sound Design and Antonin...mon Artaud at the MTF. Plays by Mario Fratti, Performed, Adapted, Designed and Directed by Roi Escudero; Cain (2017) won the PCTF AWARD for Outstanding Projections Design. NOMINATIONS: Outstanding Overall Production, Outstanding Playwright, Outstanding Direction. The Colonel’s Wife (2015) won the PCTF AWARD for Outstanding Overall Production. NOMINATIONS: Outstanding Direction of a play with Music Outstanding Lead Actress in a Play with Music, Outstanding Multimedia Performance-art and Video Projections. Roi also designed and directed Fratti’s play The Anniversary and Translated and Adapted La Matra India an award-winning Literatura Fantastica short story by Patricio Gonzales Novoa, The Matra India (2011) won the PCTF 2011 for Outstanding Performance-Art-Multimedia Event. NOMINATION: for Outstanding Overall Production of a Short Play. ETdC Projects' Lab also produced other plays by Roi Escudero: Antonin...mon Artaud, What a Trip!, After Charlie, Bubulinos Archetypes, Bubulinos Dreams and The Dimension of Progress. www.etdcprojectslab.org