Reformed Cuomo (2025)

Public performance in Union Square and Washington Square Park on election day 2025.

Special FX makeup by Nina Carelli

Photos by Tess Dworman and Amelia Golden

Film by Jack Meriwether

Reformed Cuomo was a public performance that took place on November 4, 2025—NYC’s mayoral election day.

In this performance, Dworman resurrected her Andrew Cuomo character, this time imagining a world where he comes to his senses. Seated in meditation at Union Square and Washington Square Park, Dworman donned Cuomo’s signature “I work for the people” polo shirt as well as the blanket draped over his shoulders in the viral paparazzi photos taken at a low point of his demise.