Theaterlab presents Let Me Cook For You, Orietta Crispino’s solo series examining a collage of inherited myths and apocryphal histories, melding the intoxicating act of storytelling with the ritual of preparing food. The piece is part of Theaterlab’s Fall Season – Eat Your Heart Out, which celebrates the ephemeral cycle of performance that echoes itself with each iteration, and feeds the audience something different each time. After all, you can’t eat the same apple twice.

Writer/Performer Orietta Crispino’s acting credits include The Library (Crossing the Line Festival, FIAF); In the House of My Beloved (WP Theater); Broken City: Wall Street (Pop UP Theatrics); Dancing, not Dead (The Internationalists);Dante’s Inferno (Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum), and Snow in the Living Room (Theaterlab).Director

Barbara Rubin has cultivated a career as an inventive director of contemporary and classical theatre in New York and abroad. She has created work in Europe and in her native South Africa, in regional theaters such as McCarter and the Long Wharf, on Broadway and Off, in venues such as WP Theater, Second Stage and Signature Theatre.

THEATERLAB (Presenter) curates and presents new, experimental and hybrid work for theater as well as the visual arts. The company has a longstanding relationship with international artists of note, showcasing their work to New York audiences. Theaterlab serves the NYC performing arts community through a number of developmental programs including Hotel New Work, the Solo Sunday Series, and the TLAB SHARES program. Recent productions include ReutShemesh’s Wildwood Flowers, Nicole Renaud’s The Inflatable Salon, French POV#1–Body (Jacques Perdigues, Karine Laval and Pierre Kaufmann), Megan Metrikin’s Finding Fellini, Tjasa Ferme’s Wild Child in the City and Orietta Crispino’s Three Sisters Come and Go and Snow in the Living Room. For more information, visit www.theaterlabnyc.com.