Jared Mezzocchi
73 Seconds
Artist Residency: December 15 – 23, 2025
Work-in-Progress showing: December 22, 2025
A solo performance about the stories we inherit—and the ones we almost never hear.
In 73 Seconds, multimedia artist Jared Mezzocchi cracks open the quiet mysteries of his family’s past. What begins as a son’s attempt to better understand his mother soon spirals into a decades-spanning excavation of memory, legacy, and the fragile line between the personal and the cosmic. Mezzocchi, celebrated for his genre-defining projection design and hailed by the New York Times as “a leader in the virtual world,” now steps into the spotlight. Using analog technology from the 1980s—overhead projectors, VHS camcorders, and tube televisions—he constructs a live documentary, blending intimate storytelling with lo-fi magic. Directed by Obie Award-winner Aya Ogawa, 73 Seconds is an inventive, deeply felt new work that asks how we piece together the past—especially when it resists being remembered.
Artist Bio
Jared Mezzocchi is a two-time Obie Award-winning theatre artist, working as a director, multimedia designer, playwright, and actor. Based out of New York, Mezzocchi’s work has appeared at notable theaters nationwide, including Geffen Playhouse, Vineyard Theatre, The Kennedy Center, Playwrights Horizons, TheaterWorks Hartford, Arena Stage, Woolly Mammoth (company member), and many more. In 2016, he received the Lucille Lortel and Henry Hewes Award for his work in Qui Nguyen’s Vietgone at the Manhattan Theatre Club. In 2020, the New York Times spotlighted his multimedia innovations alongside the pandemic work of four other theatre artists, including Andrew Lloyd Webber and Paula Vogel. In 2023, his digital production of Russian Troll Farm won Mezzocchi his second Obie. Most recently, Mezzocchi directed The Wind and The Rain: a Story about Sunny’s Bar at En Garde Arts and Vineyard Theatre which was performed on a barge in NYC and called “Highbrow Brilliant” by New York Magazine. Mezzocchi is a two-time MacDowell Artist Fellow, a 2012 Princess Grace Award winner, and recently celebrated his retirement at The University of Maryland, where he taught in the MFA Design program for the projection and multimedia track, a curriculum he created. Jared received an MFA in performance and interactive media from Brooklyn College and a BA in theatre and film from Fairfield University.