live theater and new works
site-specific, immediate, and here for the post-show talkback
I've been writing, devising, and adapting new material for over 25 years.
Some highlights include:
Theater is collaboration. A productive rehearsal room is one where everyone is contributing, engaged, and brings a unique perspective.
Some highlights include:
- Performing next to, underneath, and even ON Chicago's El Trains (in three separate productions)
- Productions for school audiences, deliberately tackling difficult issues like racial profiling, absent fathers, genocide, and violence
- Collaborations that center the community as author, not just audience
- Regional theater productions of new and classic works
Theater is collaboration. A productive rehearsal room is one where everyone is contributing, engaged, and brings a unique perspective.
Selected projects
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"Loves Me, Loves Me Not" was set on Jackson Park Lagoon, creating a whimsical, post-apocalyptic world where people lived on the rooftops of submerged houses.
One week before opening, Hurricane Katrina hit. We had one week to scrap the entire show and rebuild it as a meditative ritual. Every message has context, and as contexts shift, the work must respond. |
"Loves Me, Loves Me Not," Redmoon Theater at the MSI Chicago Lagoon
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"God's Work," Albany Park Theater Project and Goodman Theatre (co-production)
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"Then, One Night," Hearts & Brains at Teatro Luna
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"Celebration of Authors," PlayMakers Laboratory
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PlayMakers Laboratory creates original performances written entirely by Chicago Public School students and performed by professional actors. Every word on stage is from a young person.
The company of actors, dancers, and musicians has a strict, 18-hour rehearsal schedule to adapt, compose, choreograph, design, and stage a brand-new, hour-long show. The constraint isn't just logistical. The work has to be good enough to honor the students who trusted us with it. |
"Thanks for always radiating love and generosity, for great ideas offered in the kindest and most supportive way, for being passionate without being possessive."
-David Feiner, Artistic Director, Albany Park Theater Project
-David Feiner, Artistic Director, Albany Park Theater Project
"Thanks for bringing such joy and such great art to Links Hall!" -Roell Schmidt, Director, Links Hall
"[PlayMakers Laboratory] brings its A-game every week. That’s not just devotion to the craft: it’s devotion to the cause.” -Ian Rigg, Chicagoland Musical Theater