Reina
Created by Augusto Bitter
Direction and Set Design
by Claren Grosz and Augusto Bitter
Produced by Pencil Kit Productions and Buddies in Bad Times Theatre as part of the 2025 Genrefuck series.
Composition - Y Josephine
Performer - Jaime Lujan
Sound Designer - Mickey Rodriguez
Lighting Designer - Shawn Henry and Nathan Bruce
Stage Manager - Taylor Zalik-Young
Deaf Interpreter - Courage Bacchus
Deaf Consultant - Juan Jaramillo
Photo by Warren Kang
Teaser by Drew Berry
She taps her foot, in line for food. She gets elbowed in her kidney, she studies, she sips soup, she makes arepas, she puts on makeup. She studies, she sips soup, she makes arepas, she puts on makeup. She tugs on her Adam’s apple - can she remove it? - and flings her jaw across the room.
Reina envisions the many lives of the anonymous woman depicted on a bag of Harina P.A.N. corn flour. A movement-centric hybrid between theatre, dance, and performance art that resists categorization, it invokes and celebrates personal femininity through a collection of poems, stories and choreographies in conversation with music by Y Josephine.
Photo by Eden Graham
Photos by Eden Graham
“Working on Reina was nourishing. I love movement based work, and Reina is a piece built around the body. Augusto creates pieces that feel delicious to move through. It was downright pleasurable learning Augusto’s choreography alongside Jaime.”
Rehearsal photos by Warren Kang
