Archives: projects/past
Backwards from Winter
I wrote the libretto for composer Douglas Knehans’ monodrama for soprano, electric cello, video and computer. The premiere was May 25, 2018 at Symphony Space in New York City, produced by The Center for Contemporary Opera, directed by Jennifer Williams and featuring soprano Anke Briegel and Jeffrey Krieger on electric cello. A second production was …
Between Trains
A play with songs, with music by Chas Marsh, I wrote the play and lyrics, and directed a production in 2014 at Towson University. The production allowed me to create a final rewrite of the script, published by Blue Moon Plays in January 2018. In Between Trains, a woman wakes up in a train station …
Little Patch of Ground
I wrote the words and music for this play with songs, and Tom Shade and I co-directed a staged reading at Baltimore’s Single Carrot Theater in 2016, as part of my Rubys Artist Project Grant. Set in the reimagined aftermath of Shakespeare’s Hamlet where an overburdened planet is rejecting the buried dead, a gravedigger and …
Broken
I wrote Broken as part of an evening of plays commissioned by Baltimore’s Interrobang Theatre, including the words and music for the song “Sharing a Table,” that closes the play. Broken was directed by Katie Hileman and premiered in 2015 at The Strand, in Baltimore. Her world and her family are moving targets of misperception for …
The Circle
I wrote this audioplay for banished? productions site-specific guided alternative art audio-walk as part of The Capital Fringe, 2012 & 2014, directed by Carmen Wong. A woman takes us back in time from our future to our past, as we listen in on the musings of a couple of restless teens hanging out in DC’s …
Immortal: The Gilgamesh Variations
I wrote Tablet One: Stones and Stories for this multi-author adaptation of the eleven tablets that are our only modern access to the ancient Sumerian epic of Gilgamesh. The Forge’s production of Immortal was directed by Gabriel Shanks, and premiered at The Bushwick Starr in 2011.
Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me
Frank McGuinness’ Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me at Everyman Theatre. The production was named one of Baltimore City Paper’s Top Ten Productions of 2006.
Mad Breed
The premiere production of Jacqueline K. Lawton’s Mad Breed of which I directed at DC’s Active Cultures in 2008.
Red Death
Lisa d’Amour’s Red Death was presented at the University of Maryland Baltimore County, 2008.