Pilloried continues to screen at festivals
The SoHo International Film Festival
The New York Short Film Festival
The Shorts Miami Film Festival
The Great Film Festival
The Los Angeles Independent Film Festival
Short Shot Festival
The New West International Film Festival
The London Film Club
The New York Lift-Off Film Festival
The Bushwick Film Club
synopsis
Once on the cusp of stardom, a talented New York City dancer watches her dreams unravel in the wake of rejection, near-breakthroughs, and a growing dependence on drugs. Now addicted and adrift, she’s arrested and given a brutal choice: cooperate with police as a confidential informant or face prosecution alone.
During a tense, late-night ride-along through the city’s underbelly, she finds herself trapped between two detectives and the weight of her past — silently reckoning with what brought her here and what little she has left to lose.
Inspired by The Throwaways, Sarah Stillman’s acclaimed New Yorker article investigating the lives of confidential informants, pilloried offers a searing, intimate portrait of a woman exploited by a system that promises redemption, but rarely delivers. In one suspended night, the film captures the aching disorientation of a fallen artist forced to risk everything for a second chance that may never come.
Replaced! written and directed by Jessica Lauricello
featuring
Padraig Bond
Luis Feliciano
Kristen Hoffman
Zoe Mintz
Jack Pappas
Annabella Pritchard
Pedro Vierre
Zach Wegner
-- garners great review in Thinking Theater
"Zach Wegner lends an even more unsettling edge..."
"When Paul(?) asks her character if she wants to go back to an earlier point when things were still just funny, it just underscores how we as a nation don't have that option; but at least we have shows like Replaced! as some consolation."
-John R. Ziegler and Leah Richards
Playwright & Director: Jess Lauricello (@jesslauricello)
Stage Manager: Hunter McIlvain (@hunters.horto)
Assistant Director: Noël Masal (@noel_m_)
Lighting Designer: Jack Jewell (@jadedbug)
Costume Designer: Jaixa Irizarry (@jinxyoureit)
Sound Designer: Chikako Murakawa (@chikakolaf)
Props Designer: Bella Saban (@atriumph4u)
Fight Choreographer: Zoe Kay (@_zoe.kay_)
The Silver Cord written and directed by Travis Burgess starring Braeson Herold wins Best Cast at The Autumn's Dawn Film Festival and is Official Selection at
The Houston Horror Film Festival
Rhode Island International Film Festival
The Ditmas Short Film Festival
Appeared in Padraic Bond's The Climate Fables at Under St Mark's Theater
featuring
Luis Feliciano
Sydney Gerlach
Zoe Kay
Jess Lauricello
Amanda Leske
Samson MacDermot
Jack Pappas
Claudia Zaijic
with stage management by Kat Sciortino
& photography by Nikolai Anton
The Silver Cord written and directed by Travis Burgess starring Braeson Herold is Official Selection at The Dumbo Film Festival & Kanab Film Festival
Just wrapped on The Silver Cord written and directed by Travis Burgess starring Braeson Herold
Pilloried selected at The Great Film Festival in Los Angeles & The Miami Shorts Festival 2025
Recently appeared in Blue Bloods on CBS as James Baxter in the episode Life During War Time with Bianca Horn, Bridget Moynahan, & Steve Shirripa
Just shot Goldbrick, a TV pilot produced by Good Bad Group written by Richie Radici directed by Liam Weil featuring Eleanor Pearson, Patrick Perih, Freya G, Quinn Jackson, Nathan Vancenti
Recently played Terry in Harold Pinter’s Party Time with The Hunter Theater Company directed by Jessica Lauricello, stage management by Hunter McIlvain, featuring Emily Blackburne, Pedro Vieira Costa, Hannah Hobbins, Felicia Kobylanski, Jaixa Lopez, Noel Masai, Zoe Mintz, Pricilla Prasad, Julia Rose
Appeared at The Brick Theater in Alex Aguirre's M3LTDOWN with Tatienne Hendricks-Tellefsen, Christian Prins Cohen, Zach Wegner, Nick Walther, Eliza Vann, Rosalie Neal, Cameron Russell, & Alex Aguirre
Workshoped Diane Davis’ Complicity at The Actors Studio with Grace Kiley directing
Appearing in Peter Anderegg's stage play Flight Delay with Ginger Grace & Stephen Bradbury; directed by Kelly Morgan & presented by Thisbe Theater Company
Seen here with Stephen Bradbury at The Tank
About to appear at The New Ohio with Eden Theater Company in Diane Davis’ Complicity directed by Illana Stein and featuring Katie Broad, Christian Paxton, Nadia Sepenswol, Toni E. Anderson, Christian Prinx Coen, Ben Faigus
Played William Andrew Jones’ take on The Devil in Satan & God at Theater Row alongside Jonathan Wong Frye
Shot a role in the independent feature Girl Clown written & directed by Crystal Faith Scott and featuring Braeson Herold
Appeared in a reading of Dianne Nora's In the Dark Times, Will There be Singing? directed by Jaclyn Biskup featuring Una Clancy, Nadia Diamond, Kirsten Fitzgerald, Danny McCarthy, Christopher Mclinden, Caroline Neff, Sadieh Rifai
Played Adam in the workshop production of Maya Macdonald's Raw Pasta in The Ice Factory Festival at The New Ohio Theater, directed by Jaclyn Biskup and featuring A.J. Ditty, Justin Fuller, Kieran Mulcare, Susan Louise O’Connor, Keola Simpson, Marquise Vilsón
In post-production for Pilloried directed by Hannah Wederquist-Keller featuring Allison Plamondon & Tony F Devito
Appeared as Peter in Tatienne Hendricks-Tellefsen & Julie Cohn’s web series Adult, directed by Cynthia Silver; pilot available at this link
About to work with The Hypocrites in Chicago in Hans Fleishmann’s re-imagining of Tennessee Williams’ The Glass Menagerie with Joanne Dubach and Kate Buddeke
Did a workshop of Terrance McNally’s Frankie & Johnny with John Druzba & Kolbe Handal at HB Studio for their art of directing unit run by Pat Golden
Performed as The Painter in Lynne Nottage’s Las Meninas directed by Jonathan Solari of New Brooklyn Theater featuring Kelly Campbell, Rance Nix, Toni Ann Denoble, Samantha Levitt, Arnaud Spanos, Anne Nanette Hudson, Kestrel Farin, and Christian Ryan
Worked on a reading of Estelle Bajou’s new stage play Poetry; directed by Vicroria Gruenberg featuring Frank Anderson, Biko Eisen-Martin, Joy Sudduth, Logan Rozos
Featured in the stage reading of Louris van de Greer's play Looking Glass at The South Oxford Space with Christopher McLinden, Tavish Miller, Samantha Morales
Workshopped Harold Pinter’s The Collection & Night School at HB Studio directed by Amy Wright featuring Paul Sheehan & Tatienne Hendricks-Tellefsen
