24, 7, 365
This photo was taken at the premiere production of Jennifer Nelson’s 24, 7, 365, which I directed at the Theatre of the First Amendment, Atlas Theatre, Washington DC, 2011.
Archives: projects/past
Waterwalk: Surface and Depth/Lunar Pantoum
Waterwalk: Surface and Depth: As part of her Pathways Project, Nancy Romita and Moving Company commissioned this gamelan opera for the 2001 inauguration of a stone labyrinth built for healing on the grounds of Hopkins Bayview Hospital in Baltimore. I wrote the libretto, Robert Macht composed the music, and Nancy Romita directed the work for …
Cave in the Sky
A play with songs, puppets and video, I wrote the play and lyrics and directed the production at The Culture Project in NYC as part of the Artists at St. Ann’s Puppetlab in 2001. Daniel Nelson led the puppet design and Chas Marsh created the video and music. The play follows Alexandra, a 19th century …
The World is Round
A chamber opera for 5 singers and 14-piece orchestra, composed by James Sellars, I adapted the libretto from Gertrude Stein’s gorgeous children’s book. While serving as Artistic Director of Hartford, CT’s Company One Theater, I directed the premiere production in 1993 at The Wadsworth Athenaeum’s historic Avery Theatre, where Stein and Virgil Thompson’s Four Saints in …
Sunspots
This photo was taken at the premiere production of Charles Borkhuis’ Sunspots at Company One Theater, in 1993.