I am a theatre director, actor, sound designer, and sometimes-musician. I also produce & sound design Living Radio, a monthly series of brand-new radio plays remixing current events, performed live at UNDER St. Mark’s.
Director
Favorite directing credits include Season to Taste, an original drama collaboratively created with actors Laura Iris Hill and Anna Savant for Co-Op Theatre East (COTE); a conservatory production of Frank McGuinness’s brilliant play Carthaginians at the Stella Adler Studio of Acting; a live performance of Samuel Beckett’s radio play Cascando and Vinko Globokar’s Un jour comme un autre, both featuring music ensemble thingNY; David Myers’s Muzungu with COTE; the ensemble-derived Mission with Mixed Phoenix Theatre Group; my own original radio plays, including A New Cassette for Geste Podcast; as well as several works in Amios Theatre Company‘s Shotz series.
I have also created several other original works with COTE, including the one-act Urinal Play, an allegory set in a corporate men’s room with an omniscient, disappearing boss and an overflowing toilet; the radio play Conference, which puts the audience on a campaign strategy conference call; and O Brave New World, a site-specific, improvisation-based performance about technology and theatre set in the midst of a real house-party.
Actor
As a performer, I’ve acted roles in classics and brand new plays, from drama to musicals to performance art. Favorite roles include Demetrius in Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Feste in Twelfth Night: Wall Street, The Chairman in Rupert Holmes’s Drood, The Living Voter Guide (playing all nine candidates for New York City mayor in 2009), Rev. Kimball and others in the Drama-Desk-nominated The Threepenny Opera with Marvell Repertory Theatre, Murray Deutch, trumpet, mandolin and more in Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story, and John Ivan in Myrton Running Wolf’s Carlisle: A Different Three Sisters.