BUILDING by Colin Quinn and Vincent Piazza
Join us on July 7 & 8, 2026 for BUILDING, an immersive theatrical experience created by Colin Quinn, Vincent Piazza, and John Fitzgerald with an original score by composer Oliver Mayo. Set against the 60th anniversary of the breaking ground of the World Trade Center, BUILDING transforms Pioneer Works’ Main Hall into an experiential portrait of 1970s New York through live performance, architectural environments, projection.
Part theater, installation, and social landscape, BUILDING presents a series of interconnected stories and monologues performed by an ensemble cast including Florencia Lozano, Kathrine Narducci, Joe Perrino, Vincent Piazza, and Julia Randall, inspired by the labor, humor, tensions, and ambitions surrounding one of the city’s most consequential civic projects. Audiences are invited to move through a living environment populated by crane operators, office managers, food vendors, security guards, developers, and other workers whose lives became intertwined with the rise of the Twin Towers.
Combining archival material, spatial audio, live environmental effects, and cinematic storytelling, BUILDING operates simultaneously as theater, installation, and social landscape. Rather than reconstructing the World Trade Center itself, the work considers the labor, contradictions, aspirations, and emotional residue embedded within its creation.
BUILDING is co-presented by Pioneer Works and Cultural Counsel. BUILDING is created and directed by Colin Quinn,Vincent Piazza, and artist and creative technologist John Fitzgerald, whose immersive work has been presented at Cannes, Sundance, Tribeca, and BAM. Production design is by Lavinia Jones Wright, with original score by Oliver Mayo. The project is produced by Adam Abdalla.
About the Creators
Colin Quinn is a comedian and writer who was born and raised in Brooklyn, NY. He's been on MTV, SNL, Comedy Central. But his passion was and is for the people of New York both native born and immigrant. To listen to and tell their stories while making people laugh is his only hobby.
Vincent Piazza is best known for his portrayal of gangster Lucky Luciano on the critically acclaimed HBO series Boardwalk Empire, directed and executive produced by Martin Scorsese. He later starred as Tommy DeVito in Clint Eastwood’s Jersey Boys. Additional screen credits include the IFC thriller Centigrade, as well as Paramount+’s Tulsa King opposite Sylvester Stallone. Beyond acting, Piazza has increasingly expanded into producing and immersive storytelling projects that blur the boundaries between film, theater, and live experience. His recent work includes the original feature screenplay Midge, co-written with Terence Winter (The Wolf of Wall Street, The Sopranos), alongside collaborations with Francesco Saviano and Adam Abdalla, including the forthcoming documentary On the Line, set to premiere later this year.
John Fitzgerald is an artist and creative technologist whose large-scale immersive works explore the evolving relationship between humans, machines, and imagination. Blending cinematic storytelling, spatial computing, live performance, and installation, his projects create transformative environments that examine how digital systems shape the ways we see, feel, and connect. His work has premiered at Cannes, Sundance, Tribeca, and BAM, and he has led creative projects for Google, Apple, Samsung, MIT Media Lab, MoMA, World Expo Dubai, and The New York Times. Fitzgerald is co-founder of the experiential studio Sensorium and currently serves as Innovation Director of ONX Studio in New York.
Adam Abdalla, is a producer, cultural strategist, and the President and Founder of Cultural Counsel. Working across film, live performance, contemporary art, and experiential programming, he develops interdisciplinary projects that blur the boundaries between exhibition-making, sport, music, and storytelling. Recent projects include ON THE LINE, a documentary developed with Vincent Piazza and Francesco Saviano; This is Buzz (2026), a documentary exploring the radical legacy of MTV’s cult 1990 series Buzz, for which he served as an executive producer; and PRODUCE, a new wrestling and performance platform presented at Pioneer Works. He is also the creator of Game Time Sessions, a sports and culture conference series developed in collaboration with major museums and cultural institutions, as well as the curator of House Show, the first expansive American museum exhibition examining the relationship between contemporary art and professional wrestling, opening at the Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg in 2027. Collaborators and clients have included A24, Creative Time, Netflix, Prada, Thom Browne, the Ford Foundation, the Mellon Foundation, and the Whitney Museum of American Art, among many others. He currently serves on the boards of the New Art Dealers Alliance and Independent Curators International, as well as the advisory board of Southampton Playhouse.
Francesco Saviano is a director, producer, writer, and cinematographer, and the founder of the Brooklyn, New York–based production company Unarmed Media. His narrative and documentary films have appeared in top festivals including the Tribeca Film Festival, Vancouver International Film Festival, and the New York Television Festival in NYC. Most recently, he was the cinematographer on D.W. Young’s feature documentary Uncropped, about photographer James Hamilton, executive produced by Wes Anderson. He was also the cinematographer and producer on the original series Building, written and directed by Colin Quinn and featuring Vincent Piazza and Kathrine Narducci. Francesco just completed work as cinematographer on Women Laughing, a documentary about the pioneering women artists of The New Yorker magazine, executive produced by Katie Couric, and he is currently directing The People's Masterpiece, a feature documentary about Keith Haring and the power of art as activism. His feature documentary On the Line, which follows the careers of three New York City boxers over the course of ten years, is scheduled for release later this year.
Marika Hacking is a New York-based editor, director, cinematographer, illustrator, and co-founder of the production company Unarmed Media. With a multidisciplinary approach and a keen visual sensibility, she has built a dynamic career that bridges commercial, narrative, and documentary work. Her editing portfolio includes a broad range of clients - from global agencies like Omnicom to respected institutions such as NPR - showcasing her ability to shape compelling stories across genres and formats. Driven by a deep passion for storytelling, her work is rooted in empathy and a commitment to authenticity, often revealing the personal and political forces that shape individual lives. Most recently, Marika was the editor on the feature documentary On The Line, a decade-long project following three New York City boxers as they fight for identity, purpose, and success both inside and outside the ring. Other recent credits include, director of photography with Francesco Saviano on Colin Quinn’s original series, Building, D.W. Young’s Uncropped, a documentary on photographer James Hamilton, executive produced by Wes Anderson, and Women Laughing, a documentary on the pioneering cartoonists of the New Yorker Magazine.