DISCOVERY

Adapted from & Inspired by Dario Fo’s Johan Padan and the Discovery of the Americas

Performed by Gustavo Pace Estefen

Written by Lou Liberatore & Gustavo Pace Estefen

Directed & Designed by Lou Liberatore 

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While searching for home, Johan falls in love with a witch, escapes the Inquisition, sails with Christopher Columbus, and lands in the New World. Based on Dario Fo's Johan Padan and the Discovery of the Americas, his DISCOVERY is one for us all. Who said it would be easy?

 

 

GUSTAVO PACE ESTEFEN (Playwright/Performer) is from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He graduated in Law at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio). He attended the Arts School of Laranjeiras (CAL), Rio, with an emphasis on Acting. He also attended two years of conservatory training at the American Musical and Dramatic Academy (AMDA) in New York and graduated with a Master of Fine Arts in Acting from The American Repertory Theater (A.R.T.) at Harvard University. He was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship for Theater/Acting.  

Gustavo is a recipient of the Portuguese-Brazilian Award at Lincoln Center for Achievement in Theater, Film and Television (2015). He is an award-winning actor that received the Brazilian International Press Award in 2013 for his achievement in Theater in the USA. He was recently nominated as Best Actor for the 2015 and 2016 editions. www.gustavopace.com

 

LOU LIBERATORE (Playwright/Director). Broadway: AS IS, BURN THIS (NYC/London), TONY, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Nominations. Off-Broadway: Masterworks Theater Company, Ensemble Studio Theatre, Circle Repertory Company, Peccadillo Theatre, the Vineyard, MTC, others. Regional: Theater J, Berkeley Rep, Westport Playhouse, Center Stage, Pioneer, Two River, The Alley, Steppenwolf, Mark Taper Forum, others. TV/Film: The Affair, For Justice (CBS Pilot), The Good Wife, Nurse Jackie, Sex and the City, Law & Order, others/ “Blood from a Stoner”, “Box”, “Mary and Louise”, “It’s My Party.” As Director: NAKED BRAZILIAN, DISCOVERY, Water w/ Lemon (TV Pilot). Education: Fordham University (Lincoln Center), William Esper. Member: EST, The Actors Center, Circle Rep.