MAY MASHUP

Welcome to An Unexpected Guest, a multi-genre mashup featuring playwriting, visual art, graphic art, and fiction by Peter Pasco, Sara Rockinger, Shane Rodriguez, and John Tiedemann.

"Covid in the Garden of Good and Evil" by Sara Rockinger

Graphic Art by Shane Rodriguez

MEET THE ARTISTS

Top Row: Peter Pasco, Sara Rockinger

Bottom Row: Shane Rodriguez, John Tiedemann

Peter Pasco

Peter Pasco is from the Bronx and graduated from NYU with a degree in literature and psychology which he promptly tossed aside to pursue a life as an actor. What a cliche, right?  Like a dummy he moved to LA and has worked in tv, commercials, films, and on himself.  In 2020 he worked on the world premiere of Tony Meneses’s play, “Twenty50,” at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts. In 2021 he was in the regional premiere of “Quixote Nuevo” by Octavio Solis at the Round House Theater in Maryland. In 2022, he was in the world premiere of “The Play You Want” at the Road Theatre in Los Angeles. During the start of the pandemic he started playwriting taking classes through Primary Stages; his first completed play was selected as a semifinalist for the O’Neill and the Blue Ink Award. He has had multiple works accepted into Workshop Theater’s writing intensives and he is part of IAMA’s Emerging Writers Group.  Recently, his play pitch was accepted into EST/LA’s Ignite Cohort.

Sara Rockinger

Sara Rockinger's visual art has been featured at the Textile Museum in Washington DC., in Fiber Arts Magazine, Surface Design Journal, Freestyle Machine Embroidery by Carol Shinn, and Dimensional Cloth: Sculpture by Contemporary Textile Artists by Andra Stanton, as well as TextileCurator.com, VisualArtSource.com, Colorado Public Radio, and on Fox News in Phoenix, AZ. Learn more @ www.sararockinger.com

Shane Rodriguez

Christopher Shane Rodriguez is a graduate of the Rocky Mountain College of Art + Design. He has worked as a freelance designer with performing arts organizations like the Pandemic Collective and Theater 29 of Denver, Colorado. Also has fulfilled customer service roles at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts and Hobby Center for the Performing Arts.

See his portfolio @ www.artstation.com/misterchristophershanerodriguez and his Redbubble store page @ /www.redbubble.com/people/mistershane-/shop

John Tiedemann

John Tiedemann is a writer, rhetor, and activist, who teaches in the University Writing Program at the University of Denver and co-founded the Community Writing Center at the Saint Francis Center and The Gathering Place.