Federica Borlenghi

“Building My Casa” by Braulio Brasilio
Produced by Teatro 220 at LaMama Downstairs Theater, January 23 – February 2, 2025

Three immigrants from different parts of Latin America share a small apartment in NYC. On their hidden rooftop, they discover the farewell letter from Antonio, a former tenant.

On that rooftop, they try to find solace while navigating the physically and psychologically taxing city that is New York. A city that consumes people’s lives and feels completely lonely despite being full of people from all over the world.

A play about identity, failure, memory, and the alienation that many Latin immigrants face. Featuring improv, music, magic and maybe a cat…

Directed by Federica Borlenghi
Performed by Braulio Basilio, Ursula Tinoco, Gilberto Gabriel, and Daniel Diaza
Sound Design & Compositions by Gilberto Gabriel
Lighting Design by Antígona González
Cat (Puppet) design and making by Mariana Garcia Tinoco
Translated to English by Ursula Tinoco
Assistant Stage Managment by Isa Criado
Associate Sound Design by My Lee

"Hasta que oscurezca" / "Until dark"
translated in Spanish and produced by Teatro Pùblico

Presented at El Bastion, San Juan, Puerto Rico, April 2024

Writing & Direction Federica Borlenghi
Associate Direction Isabel Criado
Dramaturgy Covi Loveridge Brannan
Featuring Gabriela Saker, Jeliannys Michelle, Raquel Vàzquez
Talk back host Aliana Margarita, founder of Con(Sentimientos)

When Cass is accused of a heinous crime, her sister Jackie - a promising criminal defense attorney - decides to take over the case without blinking. When Lisa, their third sister, shows up in town for solidarity, she realizes there is more to the allegations than what she was told.

Written by Federica Borlenghi, winner of the Et Alia Theater Lab 2023
An Et Alia Theater production
Co-Produced by Mo Shah & Kavita Shah
Associate Producer Covi Loveridge Brannan
Dramaturg Covi Loveridge Brannan
Stage Manager Skye Pallo Ross

Performed by Maria Müller, Giorgia Valenti, Luísa Galatti (alternate cast Covi Loveridge Brannan & Ana Moioli)

Costume & Prop Designer Federica Borlenghi
Dramaturg Covi Loveridge Brannan
Executive Director Maria Müller
Press Director Giorgia Valenti
Marketing & Development Director Luísa Galatti
Narrative Director Ana Moioli
Stage Manager Skye Pallo Ross
Associate Director Isabel Criado
Set & Props Designer Andrés López-Alicea
Associate Set & Props Designer Gilberto Gabriel
Composer/Sound Designer Stephanie L. Carlin
Lighting Designer Adrian Yuen
Associate Lighting Designer Em Stripling
Associate Lighting Designer Natalie Shipley
Production Electrician Jimmy Dewhurst
Electrician Parker Damm
Electrician Sydnee Peterson
Deck Manager Julia D'Angelo
Box Office Manager Ainsley Ellis
Social Media Associate Elisa Annenberg Paglia
Photographer Alexia Haick

"At the Barricades" is a new experimental documentary theater play that examines the international volunteers who traveled to Spain between 1936-1939 to fight against Fascism in the Spanish Civil War. Inspired by true stories of those who traveled to Spain in 1937 to join the anti-Facist forces as a framing, this play explores the integrated Lincoln Battalion to unpack the nature of resistance and solidarity. This unit fought alongside a range of foreign comrades in Spain in an international crusade against authoritarianism.

Presented on December 16th 2023 at Brooklyn Art Haus

Written by James Clements & Sam Hood Adrain
Performed by James Clements, Mahalet Dejene, Sam Hood Adrain, Andrés López-Alicea, Langston Reese, and Gabriela Saker

Stage Managed by Skye Pallo Ross
Production Designed by Adrian Yuen
Assistant Directed by Callie Fabac
Production Assistants Emmy Brett and Annabelle Mei

"At the Barricades" was made possible with funds from the Statewide Community Regrants Program, a regrant program of the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the New York State Legislature and administered by Brooklyn Arts Council.

Sabina (Sofia Dobrushin) and Christina (Catherine Bloom), two semi-estranged half-siblings, have just received the devastating news that their father is sick with an ambiguous illness. After traveling home to care for him, both grapple with reverting to childhood behaviors while processing their own latest traumas: Sabina is polyamorous and married in Bushwick, and Christina is an RA at her all-girls college, Barn-Yard. While cleaning their father’s home and stumbling upon relics from their childhood- aka- a copy of the American Girl Doll puberty manifesto, “The Care And Keeping Of You,” they reveal to themselves and each other all the things they wish they had known about growing up.

Created & performed by Cathering Bloom & Sofia Dubroshin
Directed by Federica Borlenghi
Styled by Federica Borlenghi
Costumed & Props by Catherine Bloom, Federica Borlenghi & Sofia Dubroshin
Presented at ARS NOVA - CAMP Residency 2023
Facilitators Matt Gehring & Mahayla Laurence
Lighting designer Kent Sprague
Stage Manager Emma Sonricker
Photographer Danny Bristol

by Federica Borlenghi, commissioned by and presented at Italytime Cultural Center, June 2022.

This sensorial play is a community-based experiment, exploring the experience of international women living in New York City. Investigating themes of language, cultural expression, and familial separation, this piece invites audiences to consider what it means to exist between places called "home".

Curator, Writer, Producer & Costume Designer Federica Borlenghi
Dramaturg, Producer & Director of Sustainability Covi Loveridge Brannan
Co-Producer Vittorio Capotorto
Lighting Design Adrian Yuen
Choreography Julia d’Angelo
Movement Direction Clara Wiest
Music Direction & Composition Judette Elliston

by Federica Borlenghi, presented at Cleo Parker Robinson Dance Denver thought the Fringe Festival, June 2021

Synergy is an original one-act drama that reflects on the intricacies of sisterhood while testing its ties and boundaries.

Lighting Design and Photographs curtesy of Denver Fringe

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by Maria-Luiza Müller, presented at The Tank, February 2020
John, Clara, Ron, Lara, Don, Tara, Sean and Sarah are four couples who like to discuss important issues such as global warming, planned parenthood or starvation in Africa. Or do they? They might have more urgent things going on. Some might say they’re in competition, but they would surely disagree with that, because they’re very good friends! Halfway through the night, Tara disappears. Will they find her? And what is that sound, anyway?

Producer Et Alia Theater
Stage Manager Kendall DuPure
Lighting Design Katherine Teed Arthur
Sound Design Austin Pogrob
Styled by Federica Borlenghi
Photography by Pranav Kothary

by Carolina de’ Castiglioni, presented at Alchemical Studios, December 2019.

Three women, the Moire, are responsible for each individual's life, represented by a string. Sýrma is a short play set in this kind of universe, where everyone has the illusion of being a decision-maker, while in reality, they are unable to choose their destiny. Everyone, except for one young woman. Sýrma, a unique contemporary myth, inspired by greek mythology and Dante's Divine Comedy.

Producers Carolina de’ Castiglioni & Federica Borlenghi
Stage Manager & AD Jessica Ashleigh Pomeroy
Movement Director Clara Wiest
Lighting/Projection Design Ali Cronin
Composer Baptiste Harcolle
Costume Designer Federica Borlenghi
Photographs by Pranav Kothary

by Covi Loveridge Brannan, presented at Italytime Cultural Center in December 2018

In Cold War-era American suburbia, two housewives clash over issues of cultural identity, gender, and fertility in a world where the concept of the "Ideal Woman" is as ready-made as a Betty Crocker cake mix.

Creative Producer Federica Borlenghi
Executive Producer Covi Loveridge Brannan
Lighting Design Isobel Dever
Costume Design Federica Borlenghi
Photography Mitchell Matacia

by Covi Loveridge Brannan, premiere production at “HERE, an evening of short plays” at Italytime Cultural Center, December 2018.

In this tender life bite, three sisters ebb and flow by the seashore

Creative Producer Federica Borlenghi
Executive Producer Covi Loveridge Brannan
Lighting Design Isobel Dever
Costume Design Federica Borlenghi
Casting Director Federica Borlenghi

by Covi Loveridge Brannan, reprised and presented as official selection of Winterfest 2019. Best Short Play and 3 Best Actress nominations.

In Cold War-era American suburbia, two housewives clash over issues of cultural identity, gender, and fertility in a world where the concept of the "Ideal Woman" is as ready-made as a Betty Crocker cake mix.

Producer Covi Loveridge Brannan
Lighting Design Isobel Dever
Costume & Set Design Federica Borlenghi
Photography Federica Borlenghi

By Donna Latham, Rising Sun Performance Company Summer Residency, Governors Island, 2019

by Colette March, presented at ASI Studios in May 2019 by HERE WE GO Festival

Lighting Design Isobel Dever & Mitch Hooover
Composer Austin Pogrob
Costume Design & Casting Federica Borlenghi
Photography Emma Bjornsen

by Emily Hupp, official selection at Summerfest 2018

Stage Manager & AD Jessica Ashleigh Pomeroy