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 MaturitÃ
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)