Writing for Saturday Night Live, Julio Torres brought an off-kilter, surprisingly tender sense of humor to sketches like “Papyrus,” “Wells for Boys,” and “The Actress.” Since leaving the show six years ago, he has co-created the Spanish-language horror-comedy series Los Espookys, written and directed the movie Problemista, and created the kaleidoscopic comedy series Fantasmas. His most theatrical project yet is the solo show Color Theories, which has been promoted as a “theatrical spectacle.” Like many recent off-Broadway hybrids of theater and comedy, the project resists easy definition. We discussed the show over Zoom, and our conversation has been edited for length and clarity.

Pirnot made waves as the writer/performer of last year’s I Love You So Much I Could Die. Now, she’s teamed up with the six-time Obie winner Greenspan for a comedy about a group of millennial playwrights, all women, who get together to read a friend’s new play. The Rail spoke to Pirnot and Greenspan about the project in December.