PRIMITIVE TISSUE
University Settlement, New York, 2017
In 19th century Industrial England, or maybe the present day, the tiny village of Middlewreck is experiencing a rare celestial spectacle. A teenage nurse prays to Jupiter, a cam girl finds a better cable connection, and a lonely academic finds the key to all mythologies. Someone dies.
HOT DUST
Incubator Arts Project, New York, 2013
combines the mystical trickery of 19th century Spiritualist mediums with the ecstatic frenzy of 1920s Pentacostal evangelism. Both seance and revival, HOT DUST comprises original and found text, historical musings and invented ritual.
YE'RE HERE, CUZIN!
Incubator Arts Project, New York, 2011
A reverse-"Grapes of Wrath" road trip, navigating the cultural chasm between a suburban California enclave and an isolated Arkansas hill town. Narrated by a passionately accurate (or possibly delusional) Mrs. Byrd, YE'RE HERE, CUZIN! channels the perceptions of two kids in the backseat as their parents embark on a deluded journey to the Ozarks in search of the simple life.
CAN I HELP YOU?
The Bushwick Starr, Brooklyn, 2008
CAN I HELP YOU? is based on a video transcript inspired by a medical reality TV show. The action of the video transcript takes place in a hospital’s Trauma unit, and is transferred to the stage, complete with rewinds, fast-forwards and jump cuts.
WHAT I LIKE ABOUT BREASTS
Williamsburgh Art & Historical Center, Brooklyn, 2003
Our production at the Williamsburg Art & Historical (WAH) Center was a reworking of Guillame Apollinaire's surrealist drama, The Breasts of Tiresius, which tells the story of a woman who gets rid of her breasts, leaves her husband and becomes a man.
DATE:TIME
Collective: Unconscious, New York, 1996
DATE:TIME was a performance installation composed of four separate scenes that ran simultaneously and lasted one hour. The set was divided into four walled squares, with aisles between them through which the audience moved.