The Red Balloon just opened at Adventure Theatre this weekend and runs all through May and into June. It is an exquisite ensemble piece in which I have the honor of performing and have also designed the costumes! And it’s at Glen Echo Park which is a beautiful spot to visit this time of year [...]
…Is the title of my most recent venture- a ritual theater piece told through movement, puppetry and song. We just performed it’s first incarnation at HERE Arts Center where I have been in residence with my collaborator and puppeteer Lindsay Abromaitis-Smith. The show was a great success- sold out both nights to audiences excited and [...]
This is a piece I developed with the jazz funk duo The Mimetiks (featuring Akie Bermiss and Kyle Jaster). I’ve performed it in a variety of settings- in prosceniums and on rooftops. It’s a delightful little piece- an encounter, a memory, a love story. Here is a video of the piece taken at the Sidwell [...]
After graduating from Amherst College I returned to work for a semester in the costume and scene shops designing costumes, managing props and helping with all construction. I designed for two major productions while I was there. The first was The Pillowman and the second was Performance Project, a performance put together every year by [...]
My first assignment working at Amherst College after graduation was to design costumes for a production of The Pillowman. I was given relatively free reign on the design and really had a blast putting it together. It is the story of a story-teller in a police-run dictatorship (and lots more). Our production had puppets play [...]
My Senior Honors Thesis for completion of the Theater and Dance major at Amherst College. I started brainstorming ideas in June of 2006 with no idea what the show would be, only that I had to make one. As I worked through the fall I developed a duet with a ghost puppet which eventually became [...]