Performer, healer, and artist Vanessa Codorniu embodies four archetypes—the bitch, the seductress, the madwoman, and the witch—rooted in ancestry, oracle wisdom, and lived experience. Through storytelling, ritual, and comedy, she traces her lineage from Argentina to New York City, exploring inherited shame and radical self-definition.
Blending humor with tenderness, this theatrical ritual moves through machismo, religion, ambition, grief, and generational healing.
Vanessa Codorniu is a Latina solo performance artist and ritual storyteller—born in Peru to Argentine parents, raised in New York City, and now a creative transplant in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Her work lives at the intersection of theatre, ritual, humor, and ancestral memory, using the stage as a space for invocation, reclamation, and embodied truth-telling. Through archetypal storytelling and personal narrative, she creates performances that feel both ceremonial and alive, inviting audiences into moments of remembrance, release, and transformation.
She is the creator of the first Latino improv troupe in Pennsylvania, and her work has been featured on Good Day PA, The Burg, La Voz Latina, and WGAL/MSNBC. Grounded in presence and connection, Vanessa’s performances honor lineage, complexity, and voice—blending playfulness with depth to create shared experiences that resonate long after the ritual is complete.
