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...Pasternack is the first to admit that he’s no virtuoso, at least not in all of his disparate activites, which includes playwriting, acting, music, poetry, literary criticism, dance, drawing, performance art, and freestyle rap, as well as a number of unclassifiable artistic hijinks...
...modesty belies a confident charm: Pasternack is a pale and lanky guy and exudes the kind of disaffected cool that tags him as a hipster. In conversation, however, he is warm and friendly, if a bit distracted. His eyes, like his words, tend to wander with restless attention...
...Pasternack began his Harvard theatrical career in a production of Anton Chekhov’s “Three Sisters.” There, Pasternack made connections that would eventually inspire him to write two plays. The first, “The Rehearsal,” which, Pasternack says, was “still being written” ten minutes before its first performance, is the story of a bumbling theater group putting on a play...
He’s also been a leader of three different campus bands: The Elegant Touch; the bizarre Information Wrecknology, which debuted at Arts First last year and which Pasternack describes as a “selectric hip-rok band that came back from the future to destroy your computer;” and his newest project, “The Motivational Speakers...
Despite the unfailingly kooky nature of his projects, Pasternack is serious about breaking down the barriers in Harvard’s art world. Last year, he founded Present!, an “ob-literary” magazine-turned-art-collective which Pasternack calls a “life band.” While they do produce a magazine—the premier issue was released last year and there will be a second release this month—the bulk of their activity involves staging “happenings” on campus...