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About Me.

Catalina Cofone Polack (1995) is an Argentinian artist based in Brooklyn, New York.

Cofone Polack is a trilingual actress born in New York, raised in Buenos Aires where she was educated following an italian School. Cofone Polack has received a Literature Laurea (Universidad de Buenos Aires,2019).

Her professional artistic training includes artists from Argentina and USA: Julio Chavez, Ricardo Bartis, Ellen Lauren, Claudia de Serpa Soares, Pippin Parker, Jane Ira Bloom, among others.

Cofone Polack engages in art work through a transdisciplinary experience that explores socio political and psychological entities through a feminist lens. Cinematic devices examine the five senses in an embodied game of mechanisms.

Her work includes performances as well as short film and TV series productions as an actress, director, writer, and producer.

Recent works include 'The Sin', Bruno Walter Auditorium, Lincoln Center (2024); 'Divina Catharsis: Performance', Consulate General of Argentina, New York (2024); ‘What lies behind the revelry’, Automatic Slims, New York (2023); ‘Mannes Sounds Spanish Golden Age’, New York (2022); ‘Planners’, Star + (2023); ‘I Ching’, Buenos Aires (2021-2022); ‘Y a otra cosa mariposa’, Buenos Aires (2021-2022);‘Maria Chiquita’, Buenos Aires (2020); ‘Cocottes de Carnaval’, Buenos Aires (2019); ‘Aventura de un miope’, Buenos Aires (2016); ‘Pulcinella’, Barcelona (2016). Upcoming: 'Sin', Bruno Walter Auditorium, Lincoln Center (writer, director and performer); ''Threads on Fire'', New York Summer Theatre Festival (Director and performer).

A graduate student of the Contemporary Theatre and Performance MFA program at The New School. In 2023 she founded `Surrender ArtHouse´ a production company based in New York.

Performances in New York

May 2024

Bruno Walter Auditorium, Lincoln Center

New York

Writer and Performer of The Sin

Directed by Jane Ira Bloom

March 2024

Consulate General of Argentina, New York

 

Director, Writer, Actress of Divina Catharsis.

Produced by Surrender Arthouse

September 2022- November 2022

House of Redeemer

New York

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Actress of Mannes Sound Festival: Spanish Golden Age

Directed by Pavlina Dokovska and Stephen Brown-Fried

Performances in Argentina

January 2021- May 2022

Teatro Border

Buenos Aires

Actress  of 'I Ching' by Catalina Piotti

March 2019- August 2019

'Pasillo al Fondo', Buenos Aires

Teatro Talia, Mercedes

Actress and Producer of 'Cocottes de Carnaval' by Leandro Airaldo

May 2016- November 2016

Theater of Julio Chavez

('Baal' Productions)

Buenos Aires

Director, Writer, and Actress of 'Aventura de un miope' and Actress of 'María Chiquita' by Julio Chávez

Academics

School of Drama, The New School  New York (USA)— Master Program

August 2022- Present

MFA in Contemporary Theatre and Performance

Universidad de Buenos Aires (Buenos Aires)— Literature Degree

March 2013- December 2018

Literature Diploma (Major in Theatre)

Scuola Italiana Cristoforo Colombo (Buenos Aires)— Diploma di Maturità

March 2001- December 2012

Liceo Scientifico

Artistic Training

March 2012- March 2020

Escuela de Entrenamiento Julio Chavez — Prof. Julio Chavez (Stanislavsky Tecnique)

March 2021-July 2022

Timbre 4 — Prof. Claudio Tolcachir (Viewpoint Tecnique)

March 2019- December 2019

Sportivo Teatral — Prof. Ricardo Bartis (Meyerhold Tecnique, Clown)

Professional experience

September 2022- Present

School of Drama, The New School (New York)

Drama Production Assistant for The School of Drama (The New School)

January 2020- February 2022

De Norte a Sur - International newspaper

Writer/Reviewer of 'Los colores de la literatura' (Interviews with Writers, Literature and Theater reviews)

March 2017- March 2020

Theatre Festival, Estudio de Entrenamiento actoral Julio Chávez (Buenos Aires) 

Production Assistant at Theatre Festival (Season 2017,2018,2019)

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