Director + Creator

SEE/UNSEE // Director

Music and Text by Lila Blue
Text and Dramaturgy by Ren Dara Santiago

Developed in retreat at the Lake Lucille Project in July 2023 and July 2024

SEE/UNSEE (in development)

FLESH FOG // Writer, Director, Performer, Designer

Performer/Creator: Zoé Fonck
Sound Designer: Lila Blue

MERCURY STORE DIRECTING LAB with advisor Aya Ogawa, Spring 2024
SARAH LAWRENCE COLLEGE, April 2023

FLESH FOG (in development)

≈ [ALMOST EQUAL TO] // Director

Written by Jonas Hassen Khemiri

SARAH LAWRENCE COLLEGE
November 2022

≈ [ALMOST EQUAL TO]

H E A T WAVE // Director

BARTRAM’S GARDEN, Philadelphia
February 2020

PHOTO / VIDEO / READ MORE

HEAT WAVE

THE GAP // Sarah Lawrence College // Director

Written by Emma Goidel

SARAH LAWRENCE COLLEGE DOWNSTAGE
December 2021

THE GAP

BARBITURATES & ICE CREAM // Leah Stein REAP Residency Showing & SoLow Fest Show // Creator & Performer

THE ART ROOM STUDIO, Philadelphia
May-June 2018

BARBITURATES & ICE CREAM

MORTAL MEAL SERVICES // Pig Iron Catapult Festival // Writer & Performer

Lead Artist + Director: Mieke D

A cemetery scavenger hunt for one person at a time exploring mortality, destiny, and delight. Featured in Innovations in Social Distant Performance, which is curated by Elena Araoz and catalogued in the Library of Congress.

Check out a mid-process video here.

THE WOODLANDS CEMETERY, Philadelphia
November 2020

MORTAL MEAL SERVICES

AMERICA V. 2.1 // Dramatists Guild Fund Fellows Presentation // Director

Written by Stacey Rose
Performed by Gregory Haney, Jason Veasey, Edward O'Blenis, and Toni Ann DeNoble

PLAYWRIGHTS HORIZONS, NYC
September 2016

AMERICA V. 2.1

WHAT POURS IN // Headlong Performance Institute // Creator & Performer

A site-integrated durational meditation dance, performed in a private courtyard, a theater, and a street fair.

CHRIST CHURCH NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE, Philadelphia
December 2012

WHAT POURS IN

 

Assistant + Associate Director

THE QUIET CIRCUS // Headlong // Assistant Director & Site Manager

Initiated by David Brick & Maiko Matsuhima
Advisors/Agitators: Ishmael Houston-Jones, Eiko Otake & Mary Jane Jacob

The Quiet Circus was an ongoing performance residency created by Headlong at the Washington Ave Pier that included three interlocking programs, unfolding over 15 months. Contemplative practice informed artistic practice, and the agency of audiences, participants and creators was engaged to create an ongoing work that lives in the experiences of those who touched it. Visit thequietcircus.com to learn more.

WASHINGTON AVE. PIER, Philadelphia
Sep 2016 - Nov 2017

HEADLONG

A PERIOD OF ANIMATE EXISTENCE // Pig Iron Theatre Company // 2nd Assistant Director

Conceived & Co-Authored by Dan Rothenberg, Mimi Lien & Troy Herion. Co-librettists Will Eno & Kate Tarker.

ANNENBERG CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS, Philadelphia
September 2017

PIG IRON THEATER COMPANY

WASHETERIA // Soho Rep. // Assistant Director

Creator: Louisa Thompson
Director: Annie Tippe
Writer & Composer: César Alvarez

A site-specific theater experience for both children and adults, produced by Soho Rep. in a converted Williamsburg laundromat.

SOHO REP., NYC
March 2015

SOHO REP.

UTILITY // Rattlestick Playwrights Theater // Assistant Director

New York Times Critic's Pick
Director: Jay Stull
Writer: Emily Schwend

"Like I gotta lose just about everything I used to like about myself just so I can keep shit even halfway decent for everyone else around here.

RATTLESTICK PLAYWRIGHTS THEATER, NYC
February 2016

RATTLESTICK PLAYWRIGHTS THEATER

NOTHIN'S GONNA CHANGE MY WORLD // New Georges // Associate Director

Written & Directed by Mia Rovegno
Music by Alaina Ferris & Matt Schlatter
Scenic Design by Deb O
Projection Design by Bob Wuss

An immersive exploration of the dislocated and relocated in search of that mythological place called home. Our artistic team spans the theater, music, poetry, social justice, multimedia, culinary, installation, and documentary film worlds.

WATERFRONT MUSEUM, NYC
July 2016

NEW GEORGES

 

DRAMATURG

THE CITY THEATER'S ANNUAL SHOWING OF TITANIC, 1997 // Dramaturg
Director: Dante Green
Writer: Cam Pileggi
Featuring: Sinclair Daniel and Caitlin Cobb-Vialet

THE VINO THEATER, NYC
October 2023

THE CITY THEATER'S ANNUAL SHOWING OF TITANIC, 1997

LENA: A MOMENT WITH A LADY // Dramaturg
Creator + Performer: Syndee Winters
Director: Logan Vaughn

As we approach the centennial of Lena Horne's birth, Syndee Winters (Hamilton, The Lion King, Pippin, Motown) relives the most pivotal personal and professional moments in Lena's life.

DUANE PARK, NYC
November 2016

LENA: A MOMENT WITH A LADY

THE BLACK JEW THING // Dramaturg
Writers: Stacey Rose & Alexis Spiegel
Director: Logan Vaughn

Two playwrights, one Black, the other Jewish, test the boundaries of interracial friendship the only way they know how - by trying to write a play. Brutally honest, utterly absurd and deeply tender, this meta-theatrical experiment leaves nothing unsaid.

MOSAIC THEATER, D.C.
September 2016

THE BLACK JEW THING