I love producing Living Radio every month, and this round, I took a bit of a risk (for me) and assigned myself to write a piece.
It has been an absolute privilege and joy to sound design Writopia Lab's Worldwide Plays Festival for the last 10 years or so—and it's so incredibly exciting that we're back in a proper theater, with two days of full performances of new works by young playwrights, for this year's festival.
This spring, I'm providing sound design for The Stella Adler Studio of Acting's Evening Conservatory productions.
I was back at The Stella Adler Studio of acting recently, to direct their NYU students in a production of Sarah Daniels' marvelous play The Gut Girls. Written under Thatcher in 1980s Britain, the play tells the story of the freedoms enjoyed, and horrors faced, by young women working in the gore of cattle-gutting sheds, amid the social forces, technological advances, and economic pressures that push them around.
I'm designing again at the Stella Adler Studio of Acting for the Daytime Conservatory productions of Dominique Morisseau's Skeleton Crew, and Larry Ketron's Patrick Henry Lake Liquors.
I'm working once more with the fine folks at The Skeleton Rep, providing sound design for their world premiere production of Georgia & the Butch.
I once again had the pleasure of working with the good folks at the Lee Strasberg Theatre & Film Institute to sound design a production showcasing their students, this time for Joshua Harmon's Significant Other directed by my friend Illana Stein.
It's a blast to be working with Kevin Ray and company again, this time on an adaptation of Yevgeny Zamyatin's dystopian science fiction story WE.
My friend Kara Ayn Napolitano has written a beautiful play, In Search of Elaina, and I was lucky enough to provide some sound.
I'm always honored to be asked to work with the students at the Stella Adler Studio of Acting—this month, Conservatory students will play our production of Shelagh Stephenson's The Memory of Water from April 5–10 at the studios Jimmy Theater.