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I am a conceptual performance artist that creates immersive dramatic spectacles, using the mystique of the fantastic and vérité. My postmodern theatre work is the result of mixed cultural experiences, with an analytic perspective behind nature, magical thinking, supernatural and universal existential thoughts. I incorporate into my work "art as a vehicle" to exaggerate everyday reality and blend together the real with fantasy, magic, myth and natural phenomena. I combine fantastic elements through a narrative of virtual images mingled with live action in the real space where the action is happening. My intention is to create equilibrium between the everyday real atmosphere and the magical one: imaginary characters doing mundane things and mundane characters doing unreal and fantastic things. To tell stories in the scenic space, I use my interdisciplinary art method. It contains written work, design, performing and visual arts with technology. I call my eclectic work, performance-art-cinema™ (Theatre-Media). I design the whole production and hand make the visual elements: costumes, masks and life-sized puppets characters as objects of art. I utilize recycled materials and found objects. As part of the visual concept, I create scenic virtual sets and multimedia video, shot with cinéma vérité techniques, documentary and film footage. My mise-en-scène connects the virtual narrative of moving images with a preconceived plot, and the spontaneous performance-art action. I direct the ensemble to blend in with the environment as a potent ingredient. Time and space become one, and the imaginary fourth wall is removed to engage the audience as a “real” witness of an "immersive dramatic spectacle".

– Roi Escudero

THE ARTAUD series © 2025 a ROI ESCUDERO performance-art-cinéma™ tale

QUOTES

“It's very unusual for a show's title to serve perfectly as a capsule summary of my review, but in this case it seems exactly appropriate.

This new multimedia show from the indomitable, surprising, and supremely talented "Bubi" Escudero is a trip and a half, in more ways than one. Bubi's imagination, vision, and humanity inform every moment of what @ trip! And yet here, more than in previous productions created by this actor-director-playwright-designer, the mark of many collaborators is enormously in evidence. It's an intriguing work of theatre.[…]

what @ trip! exemplifies what I love about the kind of theatre that Bubi creates: it's imaginative, it's gutsy, and it's utterly true to itself. There are no rules in a show like this, save to be ready to embrace whatever comes before you. Such courageous art is not so common these days, and has much to teach its audience and, I venture to guess, its performers as well.” –Martin Denton -nytheater.com

“Escudero makes us reflect. Original!” (what@trip!) -Mario Fratti - Playwright/Critic -American Oggi

“Roi “Bubi” Escudero’s artistic point of view and multimedia work is exceptional!” (what@trip!) –Fuera de Serie- Channel 56

“It is a potential masterpiece.” (what@trip!) - Jill Benezra - Artist and Art Advocate

After Charlie

“Roi Escudero—"Bubi" to anyone she's ever met and anyone who's ever seen one of her extraordinary shows—doesn't believe in walls. She's against barriers of any kind: artistic ones that would attempt to put any of the multitudinous disciplines that make up her work—music, dance, poetry, mime, mask, puppetry, fashion, architecture, video, and others…” “There's sure to be nothing quite like After Charlie elsewhere in the New York Musical Theatre Festival. Yet, for all its fantastical, convention- and genre-defying ways, this show is one of the most real and most grounded works of theatre I've seen in quite some time.” (After Charlie)

BUBULINA The 11th DIMENSION HEROINE a ROI ESCUDERO

performance-art-cinéma™ verite tale

The BUBULINOS © by Roi Escudero

ROI ESCUDERO is the Founder, Creative Producer/Lead Designer and Artistic Director

of the awards-winning ETdC Projects' Lab.

*ROI ESCUDERO's ETdC Projects' Lab PRODUCTIONS AWARDS NOMINATIONS and GRANTS include:

(2026) The ARTAUD Series and The BUBULINOS Series will be screened at International Festivals and streamed on digital platforms - Presented by ETdC Projects' Lab for its Online Series -

with the collaboration of Romanian artists at The University of Arts Târgu-Mures Romania -

ETdC Projects' Lab Presents

BUBULINA The 11th DIMENSION HEROINE

a ROI ESCUDERO performance-art-cinéma™ verite tale -

An interdisciplinary assemblage of multimedia-art-collage

Conceived, Created, Written, Designed, Edited and Directed

by ROI ESCUDERO The Persona behind the Mask

A remote ETdC Projects' Lab Production between

Târgu Mureș, Romania and New York City, USA

The GOLDEN HOUR of LIFE

Conceived, Created, Written, Designed, Edited and Directed

by ROI ESCUDERO

With IOANA TOMUȘCĂ as Colombina - RAISA SIMIONOV as Harlequin -

RAREȘ MATEIȚĂ as Pierrot - VLAD GRECU as Constantin The Peace Maker -

Narration Written and Performed by VALENTIN EWAN

Song: HOY - Lyrics - Music and performance-art by ROI ESCUDERO

Voice Coach: RUBEN CELIBERTI

ETdC Projects' Lab Production Team:

Creative Producer: ROI ESCUDERO - USA - New York Production

USA Production Location: New York City - Co-Producer: VALENTIN EWAN

ROMANIA Production Location: Târgu Mureș Romania - Co-Producer: IOAN ARDELEAN

Assistant Director and Cameraman: VLAD GRECU

Aerial footage - The Ewan Gardens and Virtual Paintings - Oh God and Celestial Intruder

by JAMES EWAN

A remote ETdC Projects' Lab Production between

Târgu Mureș, Romania and New York City, USA

(2025) The making of SI LA PALOMITA - SI the Little Dove

The GOLDEN HOUR OF LIFE a performance-art-cinéma tale for the BUBULINOS Online Series

A remote ETdC Projects' Lab Production between Buenos Aires, Argentina and New York City, USA - With the Collaboration of La Banda Argentina

(2025) NOEL GUIGNOL a ROI ESCUDERO performance-art-cinéma™ tale

for the BUBULINOS Online Series

An interdisciplinary assemblage of multimedia-art-collage

Conceived, Created, Written, Designed, Edited and Directed

by ROI ESCUDERO - The Persona behind the mask
Narration Written and Performed by Valentin Ewan

(2024) BLACK BOX PIERROT a performance-art-cinéma™ tale for the BUBULINOS Series

Choreographed and Performed by GEORGE HĂDĂRIG - Assistant Director VLAD GRECU

TANGO BUBULINO Bubulinos - a tango cancion

Lyrics and Music by Roi Escudero and Emiliano Messiez

A remote ETdC Projects' Lab Production between Târgu Mureș, Romania and New York City, USA

(2024) ALUCINANTE a Roi Escudero Performance-art virtual Installation Created, Written, Designed, Edited and Directed by ROI ESCUDERO - Movement by IOAN ARDELEAN Performed by IOAN ARDELEAN and CARMEN GHIURCO - Music Performed by the TÍPICA MESSIEZ TANGO ORCHESTA - Music Directed by EMILIANO MESSIEZ Latin Grammy Nominee 2023 - Song – LOCA by MANUEL JOVÉS Assistant Director - DRAGOS STOENESCU Light and Soundboard – VLAD GRECU - SPECIAL THANKS TO The University of Arts Târgu-Mures, Romania – Presented at IATI Theater Tertulia 2024

(2023) ETERNAL RETURNING by Fredrik Brattberg - Directed by Ioan Ardelean, a production featuring a Roi Escudero performance-art-video produced by Valentin Ewan - Presented at North Theatre Satu-Mare, Romania and SI Ukraine Cooperation Program

Since 2022 to the present ETdC Projects’ Lab has developed Roi Escudero’s performance-art virtual series ARTAUD Marat and The Inmates of His Mind. The project is produced by Roi Escudero and Valentin Ewan with Movement by co-producer Ioan Ardelean - A remote project developed via Zoom at The University of Art Târgu Mures, Romania

(2022) L’ AMOUR FOU, a performance-art-cinéma-vérité-tale Written, Designed, Edited and Directed by Roi Escudero - Movement by Ioan Ardelean. In collaboration with ETdC Projects' Lab and Teatrul Național Aureliu Manea Turda, Romania - A Virtual adaptation of ARTAUD MARAT award winner of Excellent Experimental Play FRIGID New York 2020

(2022) A FAMILY ALBUM: Two short plays by Fredrik Brattberg: A Winter Journey and Eternal Return, directed by Ioan Ardelean. The production contains two video-art pieces by Roi Escudero. These were shown at the iconic Teatrul National Aureliu Manea Turda, Romania

(2022) SISYPHOS a performance-art virtual tale, written, designed, edited and directed by Roi Escudero. A remote project developed via Zoom and sponsored by The Network of Ensemble Theaters NET/TEN Fall Virtual Exploration Grant. The piece utilized performance-art, dance, music and technology. Choreographed and performed by Antonio Fini. Music composed and performed by Daniel Meron, piano and synthesizer. Technical director, Valentin Ewan

(2021) Two video-art pieces directed and edited by Roi Escudero, for two short plays by Fredrik Brattberg: A Winter Journey and Eternal Return for a theatrical production A FAMILY ALBUM: directed by Ioan Ardelean, and artists in residence at ETdC Projects’ Lab. These pieces premiered in Romania at the iconic Teatrul National Aureliu Manea Turda, as part of its repertoire. The production had the support and backing of Leah and the Norwegian Playwrights Association and ETdC Projects' Lab, USA.

(2021) UNDER The TURHEY OAK TREE, a Roi Escudero video-art tale. It was made possible by the New York City Artist Corps Grant. Partnered with New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA), the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs (DCLA), and with support from the Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment (MOME).

(2021) The NET’s Summer Virtual Exploration Grants. Performance-art, Dance and digital technology. Partner: Dancer Choreographer Antonio Fini

(2021) Above All, a performance-art video for Tertulia 2021 at IATI Theater Written, Designed, Edited and Directed by Roi Escudero. Movement by Ioan Ardelean. Present in collaboration with ETdC Projects and Teatrul Național Aureliu Manea Turda. - A Virtual adaptation of ARTAUD MARAT

(2021) AVOBE ALL, created, written, designed and directed by Roi Escudero. With movement by Ioan Ardelean, Produced by ETdC Projects’ Lab. A virtual performance-art-cinema™(Theatre-Media) for Tertulias 2021 at IATI Theater. Performed by Ioan Ardelean as Artaud, Roi Escudero as Madame Nebunie La Folie and Valentin Ewan as The Voice of The Ghost of Dr. Ferdière. Creative Team: Playwright/Director/ Roi Escudero: Production Designer-mise en scène: scenic design, costumes, mask, objects of art, and multimedia video concept, designed, realized and video editing. Valentin Ewan: Producer/dramaturg/stage manager/videographer/ multimedia technical director.

Award Winner for Excellent Experimental Award, given by FRIGID New York 2020 presented by FRIGID and ETdC Projects’ Lab. 2020 in the winter.

(2020) ARTAUD MARAT, a Roi Escudero Performance-art play cinema play, winner of The Excellent Experimental Award FRIGID New York

(2020) The presentations at The Medicine Show Theater 03/21/2020 to 04/12/2020

and at the Municipal Theatre Baia-Mare, Romania 02-09/2020 were delayed due to Covid-19 to 2022

(2019) The 11th DIMENSION which received a 2019 IT Award Nomination from the prestigious New York Innovative Theater Awards for Outstanding Performance-art Production.

(2018) Roi also won for The 11th DIMENSION the 2018 Planet Connections Theatre Festivity AWARD for Outstanding Experimental Playwright, plus 3 NOMINATIONS: Outstanding Overall Production, Outstanding Direction and Outstanding Costumes Design.

(2016) Flow won The Greener Planet Award for its use of recycled material in set and props, the PCTF AWARD for Outstanding Scenic Design and Outstanding Performance-art-Multimedia-Projections. NOMINATIONS: Outstanding Direction, Outstanding Costume Design.

(2013) Artaud...mon mômo won the PCTF AWARD Outstanding Multimedia Event, Video and Projections. NOMINATION: Outstanding Direction.

(2012) B=Essence NOMINATION: Outstanding Multimedia Event, Video and Projections.

(2010) 11 Seconds of Ecstasy! won the PCTF AWARD for Outstanding Performance-Art-Multimedia Event, Use of Projections and Special Effects. NOMINATIONS: Outstanding Overall Production of a New Play, Outstanding Direction, Outstanding Sound Design and Antonin...mon Artaud at the MTF

Plays by Mario Fratti, Performed, Adapted, Designed and Directed by Roi Escudero;

(2017) Cain won the PCTF AWARD for Outstanding Projections Design. NOMINATIONS: Outstanding Overall Production, Outstanding Playwright, Outstanding Direction. The Colonel’s Wife (2015) won the PCTF AWARD for Outstanding Overall Production Revival/Adaptation/Sequel. NOMINATIONS: Outstanding Direction of a play with Music Outstanding Lead Actress in a Play with Music, Outstanding Multimedia Performance-art and Video Projections. Roi also designed and directed Fratti’s play The Anniversary

Translated and Adapted La Matra India an award winning Literatura Fantastica short story by Patricio Gonzales Novoa, The Matra India (2011) won the PCTF 2011 for Outstanding Performance-Art-Multimedia Event. NOMINATION: for Outstanding Overall Production of a Short Play.

ETdC Projects' Lab also produced other plays by Roi Escudero: Antonin...mon Artaud,

What a Trip!, After Charlie, Bubulinos Archetypes, Bubulinos Dreams and The Dimension of Progress.

Picture 1) © The 11th Dimension by Roi Escudero - A post-modern performance-art cinéma ™ vérité tale. told in the 11th Dimension.

Picture 2) In the picture: Roi Escudero as Mrs. Mind and Cesar Valderrama as B2

© The Bubulinos - Collage by ROI ESCUDERO © VIDEO - ALUCINANTE a ROI ESCUDERO Performance-art virtual Installation - Created Written-Designed-Edited and Directed by ROI ESCUDERO © Music Performed by the TÍPICA MESSIEZ TANGO ORCHESTA - Music Directed by EMILIANO MESSIEZ Song – LOCA by MANUEL JOVÉS

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