Todas las mariposas negras mueren en el mar
“Porque nosotras no escribimos, ya estamos escritas.”
Todas las mariposas negras mueren en el mar
(All Black Butterflies Die in the Sea)
Written by Heny Roig Monge
Directed by Antígona González and sarAika movement collective
Tickets
– General Admission - $35
– Seniors and Students - $30
• Fridays and Saturdays at 7pm
• Sundays at 3 pm
In Spanish with English supertitles
Ages: 16+
September 26 to October 5, 2025
IATI Theater
Mainstage Theater
64 E 4th St
NYC, NY 10003
ADA/Wheelchair Accessible
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About
Black butterflies fly over the ocean until they fall from exhaustion, their bodies washing up on beaches by the thousands. It's not the journey that kills them, it's having nowhere to rest.
Unfolding in fragments, Todas las mariposas negras mueren en el mar follows Ella, a thirty-year-old woman contemplating ending her life. Scenes of domestic happiness, psychiatric interviews, a phantom pregnancy, shared wounds… A chorus of women accompany Ella, representing different stages of her life through poetry, movement, and ritual.
Directed by Antígona González and sarAika movement collective, and written by Chilean playwright Heny Roig Monge. This visceral exploration of motherhood, mental health, and bodily autonomy asks: In a world that writes women's stories before they can write them themselves, what does it mean to choose your own ending?
Credits
Cast
Carmen Álvarez
Antígona González
Sandie Luna
Sonia Mera
Georgina Saldaña
Production Team
Matías Ulibarry, Technical Director
Valeria Llaneza, Stage Manager
Maria Luisa Portuondo, Scenic & Cotume Designer
Omayra Garriga Casiano, Lighting Designer
Nicole Fernández, Media Designer
Sophie Yuqing Nie, Sound Designer
Alejandra Díaz-Pizarro, Translator
Creative Team
Heny Roig Monge Playwright
Actress, Master in Arts (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile) with the research, Body: Territory of Resistance, examining limits and counter behavioral tensions in three contemporary Chilean plays. She holds a degree in Theater with a minor in Theater Pedagogy from the Universidad Academia de Humanismo Cristiano.
She has worked as an actress, teacher, playwright, theater director, manager, producer and stage researcher, developing her work in prominent spaces of the arts and culture in Chile and abroad, specializing in various instances of training and research related to the problematization of the politics and aesthetics of the body.
Co-Author of the book, Del grito a la creación: La disconformidad como alma de la dramaturgia, conversaciones con Juan Radrigán, through ediciones Cuarto Propio and included in the first online catalog of performing arts publishers in 2020 (Chile).
Antígona González Director
A seasoned Mexican performer, director, and producer. Her numerous collaborations with IATI Theater include winning "Best Director" at the 2023 Hola Awards for the critically acclaimed "Temporada de ciervos." Co-founder of "aguardiente," a community-focused art collective that utilizes field research and oral history in its projects. Co-creator of "Amarillo," "Baños Roma," and "Article 13" with Teatro Línea de Sombra. Her work includes collaborations with The Commons Choir, FABnyc, Superhero Clubhouse, Cie Carabosse (France), Downtown Art, and University Settlement.
sarAika movement collective Directors
Founded by queer immigrant women Aika Takeshima (Japan) and Sara Pizzi (Italy), sarAika movement collective is a New York City–based company dedicated to advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion in the dance world. Blending contemporary dance with multidisciplinary performance, their work explores urgent social issues and intimate personal narratives. Since its founding in 2021, sarAika has made a powerful impact, presenting over 50 performances in a single year. Notable milestones include their debut piece Stella, Come Home at HERE and The Brick (2022), performances at the Museum of the City of New York, a 2023 Spoke the Hub award, an international tour in Japan, and their selection as 2025 resident artists at University Settlement’s Performance Project. The collective also founded and organizes the Osaka International Contemporary Dance Festival. Looking ahead, sarAika has been commissioned by acclaimed Kyoto University professor and media artist Naoko Tosa for a performance at Japan Society in New York. They have also received invitations from IATI Theater, the International Human Rights Art Festival, and other major platforms for their 2025–2026 season.