La Pittura

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Cassie Fisher, the newest artist-in-residence at the Powell-Gordon Institute for the Arts, has been tasked with giving a presentation on the works of Artemisia Gentileschi, the baroque artist who inspired her to pick up painting again after years away. But as Cassie makes her way through the selected paintings, familiar voices and feelings begin to resurface and she starts to lose track of whose story she's actually telling—Artemisia's or her own. La Pittura deals with memory, breaking cycles and how we put ourselves back together through art.

WINNER Audience Favorite of the 2026 Elgin Fringe

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“Amazing, beautiful, spare, and heartrending.”

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Production History

May 2025 Staged Reading, Skidmore College

October 2025 American Woman Workshop Program, Dramatic Question Theater

September 2026 Elgin Fringe Festival (Audience Favorite)

Directed by Hunter Wolf

Initial Advising/Dramaturgy by Dr. Lisa Jackson-Schebetta