Seuls en Scène 2020 presents “A Conversation with Pistes Playwright Penda Diouf & Director Aristide Tarnagda”

Photo courtesy Penda Diouf

PENDA DIOUF is an actor, playwright, and dramaturg with Senegalese-Ivorian roots. She lives in France.

Photo of Aristide Tarnagda by Sophie Garcia.

ARISTIDE TARNAGDA is an author and winner at the Avignon Festival, a director, and a comedian. He studied at Jean-Pierre Guingané’s Théâtre de la Fraternité. In 2013, he directed his own play And if I was going to kill them all Ma’am? on a mainstage at the Avignon Theatre Festival, while another of his plays, Red Earth, was included in the Off-Festival. He is the Artistic Director of the Récréâtrales Festival, one of the largest Pan-African performance festivals, based in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso.

AMELIA PARENTEAU is a freelance writer, translator, and theater maker based in New Orleans. An alumna of Sarah Lawrence College, she has worked with TCG, Ping Chong + Company, The Lark, The Civilians, the French Institute Alliance Française, Voyage Theater Company, and The Park Avenue Armory in New York, People’s Light in Pennsylvania, the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center in Connecticut, and Théâtre du Soleil in France. Productions: Woke (2020, Colorado); America is Hard to See, Life Jacket Theatre Company (2018, HERE); (Projection) (2017, Dixon Place); Liminal (2015, New York International Fringe Festival). She is a member of the FENCE International Translation Network, ATLAS, and TCG, and her work has been published online in Asymptote Literary Magazine, Contemporary Theatre Review, Culturebot, and Extended Play and in print in American Theatre Magazine.