cuomo

Performed at BOFFO Festival - August 2022

Makeup by Nina Carelli

In CUOMO, Tess Dworman performs a live reenactment of Andrew Cuomo’s first public remarks after resigning as governor of New York. In his speech, which was originally delivered in a Black church in Brooklyn, Cuomo seeks guidance from God to navigate his experience of being canceled after several women accused him of sexual harassment and the subsequent call for his resignation. Dworman inhabits the spell of Cuomo’s delusion and the poetry of his defensiveness as he wrangles his words and actions into a bewildering lesson on suffering, truth, and virtue.