I think of PRODUCING as analogous to teaching. My job is to open the doors, wide, and invite artists and audiences in. And to challenge them enough to keep them coming back. I produce and I curate because I love making connections, building coalitions, and facilitating cross-pollination. In that work I emphasize the radical importance of self-production, and I steer and support and listen and reflect back.
2011-2019
︎︎︎ Producer
A student-driven, department-nurtured performance research laboratory that emphasized experiment over outcome and process over product.
2017
︎︎︎ Curator
Sixteen graduate students from the departments of art, creative writing, dance, and theatre generated transdisciplinary time-based performances that grappled with power and the body.
2014-2018
︎︎︎ Producer
With their founder and Executive Director, Matt Slaybaugh, I co-produced the Next Stage Initiative. Each year, we nurtured four to six new plays in workshop stagings with a rabid focus on investigation, revision, and experimentation.
2016
︎︎︎ Curator
In conjunction with Leap Before You Look at the Wexner Center for the Arts, students explored the pedagogical strategies deployed at Black Mountain College and built solo, collective, and participatory works that tangled with them.
2016
︎︎︎ Curator
In conjunction with the Columbus Museum of Art’s work on Equal Pay Day, students created performances that engaged with the museum’s collection to incite conversation around the longstanding gender imbalance in the art world.
2015
︎︎︎ Curator
Nine graduate students created performance works that investigated compulsion as a social, personal, and ethical phenomenon.