About Me
Bi-coastal, with an international upbringing, Pascale doesn't play victims - she plays survivors. In Little Mother Lies (dir. Amanda Jones, produced by 2026 Academy Award winner Gwendolyn Yates Whittle), she's a mother who defies every expert to save her son from heroin addiction. Cinema Crazed at the SoHo International Film Festival called it plain: "Her work makes the whole film worth tracking down just to see her."
She's built a career on characters who refuse to break - May in Fool for Love, Rosannah in Brilliant Traces, and her own 88-minute solo show Fingers & Spoons, directed by Austin Pendleton. Shakespeare or Shepard, the throughline's the same: humans who stay mysterious even at their most exposed. As The Chronicle Herald's Ron Foley MacDonald put it, she makes them "fully human as they retain rather than reveal their basic human mysteries."
Battle-scarred, fiercely undeterred - Pascale doesn't compromise. Director, poet, playwright, screenwriter: her work takes its cue from Anouilh's Antigone - you shout not to make a point, but because you learn from the shouting, and if you shout well, maybe someone else learns to shout too.
Off stage: mother, teacher, cook who invents her own recipes. She loves working with kids straight through young adults, swims in cold oceans, still pulls off two pull-ups, runs when the snow turns hard and bright, and reads to feed her soul. Trading stories with friends is where she rests - and where, if you think about it, everything really starts.
