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Theatre Stuff

As a playwright, Antonia's work has been featured at theatres around the country including Yale, Rice University, Middlebury College, Boston University, and a month-long run at the New Repertory Theatre in Massachusetts. In recognition of her work at the intersection of art and activism, Antonia was invited to serve as a mentor for Glamour's College Woman of the Year program.

Antonia's plays are known for using comedy and deep research to make difficult topics accessible even to the most reluctant audiences. Whether performing solo theatre about sexual violence for college athletes, or using storytelling as a bridge between people of different faiths, she is deeply interested in the power of humor to foster empathy and invite difficult conversations.

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Post Traumatic Super Delightful

The lives of survivors, perpetrators, and bystanders weave together in a wickedly funny and piercingly insightful one-woman show about a community trying to heal after a sexual assault. Post Traumatic Super Delightful (PTSD) is a groundbreaking theatrical program about the sexual assault crisis on college campuses. The play began its development with All For One Theater‘s SoloLab and Works In Progress Series and made its world premiere at The Kraine Theater in New York City in the 9th Annual FRIGID New York Festival. PTSD has been on a national tour of colleges, including Middlebury College, Goshen College, and Rice University.  PTSD has subsequently been featured in Marie Claire Magazine, worked with Glamour Magazine’s Top Ten College Women Program, and been the keynote speaker at the Minnesota Association for the Treatment of Sexual Abusers conference.

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“PTSD is singularly successful in creating a profoundly therapeutic and empowering theatrical experience that evokes laughter, sympathy, and healing – all within the span of 60 minutes …The key to the show’s success lies in the kind of laughter that the show inspires. The humor of PTSD is rooted in identification with the genuine honesty and unrelenting humanity of the show’s four characters … All four of the unnervingly realistic characters are performed with clearly distinct voices and personalities by the playwright, Antonia Lassar.”
– Steve Schonberg of Center on the Aisle

“Lassar, a gifted physical comedian and incisive feminist-playwright, isn’t afraid to upend our perceptions of how assault reverberates for survivors, perpetrators, and bystanders alike … Director Angela Dumlao hones Lassar’s every comedic beat into an astonishingly expressive pantomime that both investigates the issue at hand and has the audience in stitches …

Post Traumatic Super Delightful is a play that demands to be heard at schools, crisis centers, and theatres across the country. Lassar knows the sexual assault crisis on today’s campuses won’t be easily solved; the belief in live theatre’s ability to enlighten and heal is what fuels her superbly astute show.”
– Jack Smart of Theatre is Easy (naming PTSD a “Best Bet”)

“[Post Traumatic Super Delightful] is a profound piece about healing and finding the humor in life, after sexual assault. The play needs to go on tour to EVERY SINGLE college/university in the country. It is beautifully written and performed and the direction is crisp and fresh.”
– Susanne Pinedo of Pinedo Public Relations

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God Box

God Box is a solo theatre piece about the tension of how religion is passed on, and sometimes isn’t. The show toured for over 8 years, including to Yale, Rice, Boston University, and the acclaimed New Repertory Theatre in Massachuetts. Antonia has performed God Box for interfaith audiences in churches, synagogues, colleges, and living rooms. The show was directed by Christine Hamel during its month long equity run at The New Rep.

“The storytelling was so good that it immediately made me think of the legendary Sholom Aleichem...This play is not only technically brilliant, but also emotionally and spiritually rich... If you can find your way this weekend to Watertown and New Rep's Black Box Theatre, you just may have a spiritual experience."

-White Rhino Report

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