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2022 - 2023
A HISTORY OF GATHERINGS a new work of live cinema exploring the act and art of gathering - its meanings, forms, functions and resonances. actors and audience enact gathering in everyday and impossible formations. a cluster of cells, a forest of trees, a family meal, an unproductive rehearsal - serve as content, context, as well as physical sites, through which to explore, estrange and understand the nature of gathering - as it is and could be. created with Emily Mendelsohn currently in development with support from New Georges 2021 LIFE AND DEATH a death walk and creative workshop for the public created with Kate Muehlmann presented by Think Olio & Brooklyn Society for Ethical Culture 2019 BAT MITZVAHA a community ritual & queer bat mitzvah incorporating home video, live performance and sheet-cake supported by Queer|Art presented at The Wythe Hotel, NYC 2018, 2020 QUEER SCOUTS a performance project exploring queer identities, self/group determination, and celebration - comprised of live performance, video installation, ongoing meetings & publications supported by Queer|Art, Dixon Place, Abrons Arts presented at Leslie Lohman Museum of Art, NYC 2018 JO a narrative short film - set in the 1980's Borschtbelt, a 13 year old girl reluctantly prepares for her Bat Mitzvah, when an unexpected encounter with a local teen sends her rite of passage in an unorthodox direction writer/director Woodstock Film Festival, premiere 2015 THERE'S NOTHING TO SEE HERE a participatory civic performance exploring interdependence, regenerative futures, and social creativity; a group of audience-participants convene to build imaginary gardens, a boat and other gathering spaces for shared survival -- future-building through personal and found objects and materials, work songs and acts of collective composition... supported by Brooklyn College & Gallim Dance, NYC presented at Gallim Dance, NYC 2014 - 2015 METAVERSES a media & performance hack of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, incorporating the artwork and stories of NYC's elder and immigrant artist communities into the museum's collections... created in residence at the Met's Media Lab for the Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC 2013 DAVID LUNCH MOVIE TRUCK an immersive and interactive installation in a box truck; a cinephile family ushers its audience into their surreal cinematic universe as they open the doors to their box-truck theater, and to to their vaults - revealing never-before-seen footage by the late-great auteur, David Lunch Lost Horizon Night Market, NYC 2012 TINY DANCE FLOOR THEATER an experiment in pop-up, micro-performance; a trio of performers enact a series of 1 - 2 minute performances on a moveable 4 x 4 checkered dance floor, inspired by and in relationship to the art in a gallery Brody House | Art Show, Budapest 2010 FACEDANCING a narrative short film; a troupe of virtuosic idiots brings their singular choreography to the stage, attempting to move their audience using only the grace of the face Maryland Film Festival, premiere 2013 - 2015 Visual & Folk Art Projects PATCHES PROJECT, celebrating queeroes and heroic weirdos through embroidered patch art, supported by queer|art, nyc POSTCARD PROJECT, a public art and activist project against gun violence using postcard art, nyc PORTRAIT PROJECT, a community portrait project in collaboration with supermoon community arts space, nyc OTHER PEOPLE PRESENT 2019 BLUNDERPUSS Shaina Feinberg, Director @ LES Film Festival, premiere actor 2017 QUEEN OF EVERYTHING a burlesque folktale, created with former Queen of Burlesque, Trixie Little, and with original music by Gato Loco directed by Justine Williams Creative Arts Alliance, Baltimore 2014 TOWHEADS @ MOMA's New Directors | New Films, premiere actor 2011/2012 A DOCTOR IN SPITE OF HIMSELF a contemporary commedia-inspired re-imagining of Moliere's classic farce adapted and directed by Christopher Bayes presented by Yale Repertory Theater, Berkeley Repertory Theater, Red Bull Theater actor 2011 TAKE WHAT IS YOURS the (too) little-known (true) story of how American women fought and won the right to vote directed by jill a. samuels assistant directed by justine williams presented by the New Ohio Theater and 59E59 Theater, NYC 2010 JOURNEY TO THE OCEAN directed by Aya Ogawa presented by the Foundry Theatre and the Rubin Museum of Art, NYC, and created in collaboration with Adhikaar, Queens, NY and with members of the NYC/Nepalese immigrant community actor-creator |
A Band Called Courage, Sibiu International Theater Festival, Romania
created with the International Performance Ensemble, Pace University 2016