SalOn! at Brick Aux

The next SalOn! will be Thursday, January 30th at 7pm Part of the 2025 Exponential Festival, the theme is DOUBLE GROOVE (think hidden tracks, chance operation, doubling, grooving…) CLICK HERE FOR THE LINEUP & TO RSVP!

SalOn! is a quarterly gathering that brings together performance artists, comedians, chefs, scientists, theologians – anyone with something to share in a DIY, low-stakes setting – in one delightfully unpredictable night. Hatched at Silent Barn in 2014 by Founding Artistic Director Theresa Buccheister, I am delighted to be stewarding this series as Artistic Director, and to be joined by co-curator Matthew Antoci.

my utopias by Jay Stull

In October 2024 I directed a workshop and invited reading of my utopias by Jay Stull, a play that dramatises the politics of world-building and utopias. Set in a version of the East Village, my utopias asks: Can we ever begin again? And is it not the intrinsic fanaticism of utopianism to think not only that it’s possible, but that we should?

Performers: Dalia Davi, Fernando Gonzalez, Melissa Hurst, Mari Lee, Anna O’Donoghue, Austin Purnell, Jon Norman Schneider, and Julyana Soelistyo

Liturgical Workshops at Sunnyside episcopal

This summer I collaborated with Fr. Carl Adair of The Episcopal Mission in Sunnyside on the site-specific, interactive, iterative performance that is a Eucharistic Mass. Over three “liturgical workshops,” we considered what values get upheld by all of the agreements one makes, implicitly and explicitly, when walking into a church, and how to shift those agreements in pursuit of a genuinely loving and liberating space.

SEE/UNSEE at HERE

TICKETS | Monday, October 21st, 4:30-9:30p (our set will be around 8 or 9pm)

Lila Blue & their band (NOGA & Adam Cabo) will be playing a few songs from SEE/UNSEE, the queer folk musical we've been developing over the last few years inspired by the work and life of painter & mystic Hilma af Klint. This will be our first time sharing the work publicly in NYC, and it would mean a whole lot to see you there. We'll go on toward the end of the evening, but I recommend coming earlier to experience the full extent of this pre-election collective healing/community-building ritual, with healers, bodywork practitioners, and performances, curated by Treya Lam.

SEE/UNSEE | LAKE LUCILLE PROJECT

In June 2024 we returned to the Lake Lucille Project for a dramaturgical workshop of SEE/UNSEE, a queer folk musical inspired by the work and life of Hilma af Klint, composed and co-written by Lila Blue. Co-writer/dramaturg Ren Dara Santiago joined us, along with performers/musicians Adam Cabo, Noga Cabo, Jennifer Ikeda, Saskia Lane, Gunnar Manchester, Mia Pak, Lucia Rogerson, and Han van Sciver.

SM: Ella Lieberman / Producer: Emily Gabler / Chef: Cam Pileggi / Sous Chef & PA: Joyah Dominique / Program Directors: Brian Mertes & Melissa Kievman

mercury store directing LAB

In Spring 2024 I experimented with staging temporal dislocation through the Mercury Store Directing Lab, facilitated by Claudia Zelensky and Manuel Ortiz, and with advising from Aya Ogawa.

SEE/UNSEE | LAKE LUCILLE PROJECT

In July 2023 I co-directed with Brian Mertes a workshop of a new musical by Lila Blue. Inspired by the life and work of radical Swedish painter Hilma af Klint, this project conjures a story of grief, queerness, love, and the divine.

Performers: Lila Blue, Jo Lampert, Maude Mitchell, Kai Thomani Tshikosi, Gabriel Ebert, Julian Crouch, Vicky Finney, Gunnar Manchester, Phil Roebuck, Saskia Lane, Luna Porta-Lane, Mariana Quinn-Makwaia, Noga Cabo, Adam Cabo / Co-producers: Melissa Kievman + Trevor Wang / Sound: Daniel Baker / Lights: Betsy Chester / SM: Lisa McGinn