We are theatrical artists committed to examining our world through comedy, satire, language abuse and action.
Our first production in New York was "Dog Spelled Backwards Is Krishna" at Todo Con Nada in early 1997. At that time, the company was known as L'aardvarcchio Productions.
"Dog Spelled Backwards Is Krishna" returned for the First Annual New York International Fringe Festival in August, 1997 and again at Manhattan Theatre Source in May, 2000.
"L'aardvarcchio" was performed at Todo Con Nada in February, 1998 and at the Pantheon Theatre in August, 1998.
"Presumed Retarded" was performed at Manhattan Theatre Source in June, 2001.
"Film Noix" appeared at Under St Marks in December, 2004 and returned for the New York International Fringe Festival in August, 2006.
Several evenings of Ed Malin's short pieces such as Girl = Mass x Anorexia, Judge Yuri and Executioner, and many pieces from Spontaneous Combustion were presented at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe in May, 2005.
"Stofsyers en Babas", also from Spontaneous Combustion, was part of the Samuel French Festival in June, 2006.
"The Inconstant Infection" received a reading at Art for Change in Fall of 2005 and was performed as part of the New York International Fringe Festival in August, 2006.
"The Colossus of Rhode Island", a play with music by Ed Malin and Peter Dizozza, was performed at the Dramatists Guild Footlights series in 2006.
Ed's short play "Beginning, Middle and End" was part of the 2007 Samuel French Festival.
Ed colaborated with Peter Dizozza and Maria Micheles on "Oh Happy Three" in 2007. This featured Ed's plays "I Shall Not Be Suede" and "Judge, Yuri & Executioner". A second "Oh Happy Three" show followed in 2008, with Ed's plays "Tribes of Maronii", "The Return of the King", and "Abkhazia, God Bless You."
Ed has contributed two pieces to Brooklyn Playwrights: "The Pithecanthropist" in the 2007 Beyond Brecht Festival and "Sexy Monk" in the 2008 Confronting Chekhov Festival.
"American Jataka Tales" was part of the Manhattan Theatre Source Writers Group's Ingenius Festival in January, 2009 and the New York International Fringe Festival in August, 2009.
"Father Christmas" was seen in TestoGenius 2010, while "Mesculun Feminine" appeared in TestoGenius 2011.
"The Addicts", a gay Jews for Jesus play, had a reading at Manhattan Theatre Source in April, 2011. This was followed by a reading of "Inversion Of The Baby Snatchers" in the Planet Connections Theatre Festivity in June, 2011. "The Troubadour Struck By Lightning" had a reading at The Home Of in October, 2011. "The Color Brunette" was seen at Dixon Place in November, 2011.
