As a MAKER of performance, I shift amongst the roles of playwright, director, and collaborative maker. I often work at the intersection of dramaturgy and direction, especially when I build performances out of material from the historical record and when I devise or adapt. In all of my work, I make performances that investigate the limits and the possibilities of the archive, that revel in retelling and remixing, and that challenge fair use, copyright, and creative transformation.
Below is a full list of my works; you can also sort by mode of working on the above right.
2019
︎︎︎ Playwright
Prue McKeel’s life is ordinary. That is, until her brother is abducted by a murder of crows and she journeys into the Impassable Wildnerness to get him back. An adaptation of the young adult novel by Colin Meloy, illustrated by Carson Ellis.
2018
︎︎︎ Director
A 500-year-old Austrian count tries to find his next meal. From beyond the grave, his wife tries to show him another way. A very dark comedy by Greg Kotis, author of Urinetown.
2017
︎︎︎ Collaborative Maker
Teaching and ambition, longing and chemistry, regret and waste.
2017
︎︎︎ Collaborative Maker
Hope. Where does it come from? Who has it? How can I get some?
No statements. Only questions.
2017
︎︎︎ Collaborative Maker
Fragmented identity, sublimated love affairs, a nagging desire for fame, and the limits of credulity.
2016
︎︎︎ Playwright
Based on actual events, this adaptation of Coast of Illyria by Dorothy Parker and Ross Evans asks: what’s Romantic about madness and addiction?
2016
︎︎︎ Director
It’s a sticky hot summer in the swamplands of Pawley’s Island, South Carolina. Stepsisters Wanda and Daisy are used to people disappearing, but they’re not quite sure what to do when they come back. A new play by Alexis Schaetzle.
2008, 2011, 2012, 2016
︎︎︎ Collaborative Maker
The story of one woman’s struggle to orient herself, to reconcile motherhood with work and love with duty, and to articulate the responsibility of the artist to a world sunk in war.
2015
︎︎︎ Director
An allegory about the New South Africa written and created by Melonie and Sifiso Mazibuko.
2014
︎︎︎ Playwright
A splintering and remix of Cervantes’ massive (and metafictional) novel that examines how we get lost and how we can find ourselves again.
2014
︎︎︎ Director
In C Denby Swanson’s bleak comedy, the world’s nicest hitmen help out a pair of southern transplants to Minnesota. Or do they?
2014
︎︎︎ Director
Idealistic young teachers, blind to their own privilege and baggage, might do more harm than good in this new play by Camille Bullock.
2014
︎︎︎ Director
A child is born in a shoebox, growing branches. A dystopian allegory by Melonie Mazibuko.
2013
︎︎︎ Director
Now that her transplanted heart is pumping new blood, Eden is eager to explore the world with fresh perspective. But Max is on his own planet. A play about second chances of all sorts by Alexis Schaetzle.
2011, 2012
︎︎︎ Collaborative Maker
A comedy about writing, and therefore a play about procrastination, disappointment, hypochondria, unrequited love, and blind hope. It’s about why the semicolon is way sexier than the dash. And why children’s literature matters.
2010
︎︎︎ Playwright
A grown up play for young audiences, adapted from the novel by Imme Dros, about the confusion of childhood and the messiness of real life, about love and loss, fear and courage…and about learning that, sometimes, just knowing can be enough.
2007
︎︎︎ Director
A movement-driven solo piece inspired by the life of Frida Kahlo, created and performed by Angeles Romero.
2006
︎︎︎ Playwright
A play for yourng audiences developed in a process that foregrounded design experiment: from a list of aspirations–including a 30 foot giant and a character who rappels from the moon–I built a play to contain them all.
2004
︎︎︎ Director
A surrealist detective story about a drowning and a discovery, created and performed by Angeles Romero.
