RECENT INDEPENDENT PROJECTS – CREATED/PERFORMED
“HOME” - a large-scale dance-theater spectacle about the difference between ‘house’ & ‘home’ - 2017 Commissioned by BAM, New Zealand Festival, Edinburgh International Festival, ASU Gammage (Philadelphia FringeArts Festival, Arts Emerson, BAM Next Wave ’17)
“The Object Lesson” - a performance/installation about our attachments to “stuff” - 2013-2018 Commissioned by Lincoln Center (Philadelpphia FringeArts Festival, Edinburgh Fringe Festival, BAM Next Wave, World Stage (Toronto), Kirk Douglas Theater (CTG-LA), Curran Theater (SF), Walker Arts Center, Wexner Center, Bard College, Sydney Festival, Perth Festival, Studio Theatre (DC), New York Theatre Workshop, Taiwan Festival)
“Hear Their There Here” - a free public sound walk through Brooklyn Bridge Park - 2017 (ongoing) Commissioned by St. Ann’s Warehouse (Brooklyn Bridge Park / St. Ann’s Warehouse)
“Elephant Room” – an absurdist magic show - 2011-2014 Commissioned by Center Theater Group (Los Angeles) (St. Ann’s Warehouse, Edinburgh Fringe Festival, MCA Chicago, Bard College, Kirk Douglas Theatre (CTG-LA), Philadelphia FringeArts Festival, Arena Stage (DC))
“Flesh and Blood & Fish and Fowl” – a doomsday clownshow for two actors and 35 taxidermied animals – 2008-2010 (Philadelphia FringeArts Festival, Edinburgh Fringe Festival, London Mime Festival / Barbican BITE ’11, Paris Festival Quartier d’Été)
“machines machines machines machines machines machines machines” – a rube-goldberg kinetic junk play – 2007-2009 (Philadelphia, Studio Theatre (DC), HERE Arts Center)
“Amnesia Curiosa” – a surgical séance – 2006-2008 Commissioned by Philadelphia FringeArts Festival (Pennsylvania Hospital historical surgical amphitheatre / Philadelphia FringeArts Festival, Studio Theatre (DC))
“all wear bowlers” – a dreamscape vaudeville - 2005-2012 (Philadelphia Fringe Festival, 1812 Productions (Philadelphia), HERE Arts Center (NYC), Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Kirk Douglas Theatre (CTG-LA), La Jolla Playhouse, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Studio Theatre (DC), Princeton University, London Mime Festival/BITE ’07, Sydney Opera House, Int’l tour – Italy, Germany, South Korea, UK)
WITH PIG IRON THEATRE COMPANY “Welcome to Yuba City” - 2009 “Chekhov Lizardbrain” - 2007-2010 “Our Hollow Earth” - 2006 “Hell Meets Henry Halfway” - 2004 “James Joyce is Dead and So is Paris: The Lucia Joyce Cabaret” - 2002 “Shut Eye” - 2001 “Mission to Mercury” - 2000, 2006 “Gentlemen Volunteers” - 1999-2000
NOTABLE COLLABORATIONS “Holoscenes” - public underwater spectacle about people and climate change - with Lars Jan “Pandæmonium” - lyrical dance/theater/live-film project - with Nichole Canuso & Lars Jan “Red-Eye to Havre de Grace” - action-opera based on the life and mysterious death of Edgar Allan Poe - with Theaddeus Phillips and the Lucidity Suitcase Intercontinental FELLOWSHIPS / GRANTS Creative Capital Fellowship PEW Fellowship in the Arts Independence Foundation – Fellowships awarded to develop “all wear bowlers” and “The Object Lesson” Doris Duke Foundation - Building Demand in the Arts - “Hear Their There Here” American Dance Institute (The Lumberyard) - “HOME” The Wyncote Foundation - “HOME;” “The Object Lesson” MAP - “The Object Lesson” New England Foundation for the Arts - “Elephant Room” PEW / Philadelphia Theater Initiative - “The Object Lesson;” “Elephant Room;” “Flesh and Blood and Fish and Fowl;” “machines machines machines machines machines machines machines;” “all wear bowlers”
RESIDENCIES The Hermitage ArtsEmerson - technical residency “HOME” Penn State - technical residency “HOME” BRIC Arts/Media - technical residency “HOME” MANA Contemporary - technical residency “HOME” SPACE on Ryder Farm - writing residency, “The Object Lesson” The Orchard Project- residency, “The Object Lesson” The Yard - residency, “The Object Lesson” Philadelphia Live Arts Brewery Program (LAB) - residency, “The Object Lesson” Hunter College Residency – to develop “Elephant Room” Philadelphia Live Arts Festival LAB Fellow – residency to develop “Elephant Room” Swarthmore College - “Flesh and Blood & Fish and Fowl” EMPAC - residency / commission – “Filament Festival” Philadelphia Live Arts Festival LAB Fellow – residency to develop “The Object Lesson” Princeton University Atelier University of Minnesota Residency Stanford University - to develop “all wear bowlers” HERE Arts (HARP) - “all wear bowlers”
AWARDS Bessie Award - “The Object Lesson” Carol Tambor Best of the Fringe Award (Edinburgh) - “The Object Lesson” Total Theatre Award (Edinburgh) - “The Object Lesson” Scotsman Fringe First Award (Edinburgh) - “The Object Lesson” / “Flesh and Blood & Fish and Fowl” OBIE Award (design) – “machines machines machines machines machines machines machines” Innovative Theatre Award – “all wear bowlers”
EDUCATION & AFFILIATIONS Stanford University (BA, English Literature with Honors) École Jacques Lecoq (Physical theatre training; Paris, France) Philippe Gaulier, David Shiner, Giovanni Fusetti (Clown training) Pig Iron Theatre Company – company member (2001-2012), teacher at the Pig Iron school (2012-2014) Bard College - professor Theater & Performance (2014-2016)