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Happy/Hungry
1M/2W, 2 hr.
When Ella is sent by her stepmother to the Forest Witch for fire, she was never supposed to survive — and perhaps she doesn't. After all, the woman that comes out on the other side of the forest seems altogether different. Darkly comic, Happy/Hungry strips bare the stories we tell ourselves after we've partnered with monsters to get what we want.
When Ella is sent by her stepmother to the Forest Witch for fire, she was never supposed to survive — and perhaps she doesn't. After all, the woman that comes out on the other side of the forest seems altogether different. Darkly comic, Happy/Hungry strips bare the stories we tell ourselves after we've partnered with monsters to get what we want.
The Assessment
1M, 45 min.
There are 26,000 home fires every week. There are 2,000 miscarriages every day. Someone is diagnosed with cancer every nineteen seconds. But I do it out of love. Are you ready for your assessment? This one man show is an intimate look at the forces that hold our world together.
The Assessment will be presented in the 2013 New York International Fringe Festival.
There are 26,000 home fires every week. There are 2,000 miscarriages every day. Someone is diagnosed with cancer every nineteen seconds. But I do it out of love. Are you ready for your assessment? This one man show is an intimate look at the forces that hold our world together.
The Assessment will be presented in the 2013 New York International Fringe Festival.
Child of Good Fortune
3-5M/3-4W, 1 hr. 20 min.
In this play, one man plays legendary poet Lord Byron, legendary actor Edwin Booth, and a baby that grows up to be legendary conqueror Charlemagne. Intertwining the stories of these three figures, Child of Good Fortune picks apart the choices we make in answer to the crippling expectations placed on us.
Child of Good Fortune was a semi-finalist for the 2012 Bay Area Playwrights Festival.
In this play, one man plays legendary poet Lord Byron, legendary actor Edwin Booth, and a baby that grows up to be legendary conqueror Charlemagne. Intertwining the stories of these three figures, Child of Good Fortune picks apart the choices we make in answer to the crippling expectations placed on us.
Child of Good Fortune was a semi-finalist for the 2012 Bay Area Playwrights Festival.
Mechanical Sonnet
_I do not see why [a computer] should not enter any one of the
fields normally covered by the human intellect, and eventually compete
on equal terms. I do not think you can even draw the line about sonnets, though the
comparison is perhaps a little bit unfair because a sonnet written by a
machine will be better appreciated by another machine.
-Alan Turing
3M/1W, 1 hr. 10 min.
What if a computer wrote a play? A virtual reality experience gets hijacked by a computer program so that she can reveal to us her own unusual brand of theater. A play that attempts to go to the heart of being human, from the point of view of someone who isn't.
-Alan Turing
3M/1W, 1 hr. 10 min.
What if a computer wrote a play? A virtual reality experience gets hijacked by a computer program so that she can reveal to us her own unusual brand of theater. A play that attempts to go to the heart of being human, from the point of view of someone who isn't.
Phantomwise
3w/4m, 2 hr. 5 min.
In 1862 Charles Dodgson told a girl named Alice Liddell a story about another girl, also named Alice, who fell down a rabbit hole into a fantastical world—a story that would later be published under a pseudonym and be one of the most influential stories to children everywhere. In 1932 Alice said in a letter to her son "I am so tired of being Alice. Does that sound ungrateful? It is—only I do get tired!" Phantomwise is the story of everything that happened between. Sweeping between fantasy and reality, it tells the story of Alice's life, and her own relationship to the story that made its author famous.
Click here to see pictures from the Yale Dramatic Association production of Phantomwise.
Phantomwise was presented in the 2012 New York International Fringe Festival.
In 1862 Charles Dodgson told a girl named Alice Liddell a story about another girl, also named Alice, who fell down a rabbit hole into a fantastical world—a story that would later be published under a pseudonym and be one of the most influential stories to children everywhere. In 1932 Alice said in a letter to her son "I am so tired of being Alice. Does that sound ungrateful? It is—only I do get tired!" Phantomwise is the story of everything that happened between. Sweeping between fantasy and reality, it tells the story of Alice's life, and her own relationship to the story that made its author famous.
Click here to see pictures from the Yale Dramatic Association production of Phantomwise.
Phantomwise was presented in the 2012 New York International Fringe Festival.
Armida
1w/3m, 18 min.
An adaptation of the classic story of love and honor in the crusades, Armida tells the story of a sorceress from Damascus and her doomed love of a Christian knight.
An adaptation of the classic story of love and honor in the crusades, Armida tells the story of a sorceress from Damascus and her doomed love of a Christian knight.
Esdras: Perished, Erred, and Sinned
3w, 1 hr.
Three women play over twenty roles in this series of vignettes retelling the stories of historical and mythological women who caused or faced tremendous injustice. It includes Cleopatra split in three, Joan of Arc meeting the Devil, a terrifying Elizabeth Bathory, and a perpetually rewinding and fast-forwarding Sharon Tate, among others, tied together with the story of Iphigenia.
Three women play over twenty roles in this series of vignettes retelling the stories of historical and mythological women who caused or faced tremendous injustice. It includes Cleopatra split in three, Joan of Arc meeting the Devil, a terrifying Elizabeth Bathory, and a perpetually rewinding and fast-forwarding Sharon Tate, among others, tied together with the story of Iphigenia.
