I am an award-winning director and writer of hybrid work based in NYC. I am currently developing opera-theatre works with Stefania de Kenessey/Annie Finch, Paul Pinto and Kamala Sankaram.
I have constructed 37 works for the stage (15 original hybrid works, 9 opera-theatre and music-theatre works, 8 adaptations of novels & short stories and 5 classic plays). I work in a collaborative, process-driven way to fuse different disciplines into a cohesive whole. I have developed a unique directorial form that features a “gestural vocabulary” used both as an emotional signifier and as a choreographic element.
Selected premieres: BAM, HERE, Ohio Theatre, and Soho Rep. Selecting touring: 7 Stages, Berkshire Festival, Brown, MCA, New World, Painted Bride, Perishable, UMass, Moscow Art Theatre and Oslo. Selected workshops: Clubbed Thumb, New Georges, Playwrights Horizons, Public Theatre, and Target Margin. Selected residencies: Ankram Opera House, Bethany Arts Center, LMCC, Mabou Mines, Mass MOCA, NACL, Playwrights Center, Space at Ryder Farm, Voice & Vision, Williams. Reviews have appeared in all major New York media.
Recipient of an OBie award for Lifetime Achievement and Proclamation from the NY State Assembly for steadfast leadership at HERE, two prestigious MAP Fund awards, a nytheatre.com Person of the Decade for outstanding contribution, a Leader to Watch by Art Table and a BAX10 Award.
I am a political activist who has organized many art actions and a frequent panelist for the NEA, TCG, NYSCA, DCA, and ART/NY. I currently serve on the NYC Theatre and Live Performance Industry Council as well as a public member of Community Board #2. I work as a volunteer on legislative strategy with NYS Assemblymember Harvey Epstein.
I have taught Directing and Creative Producing as well as lecturing at a number of universities. Selected student productions at Cal Arts, NYU, and Sarah Lawrence. I assisted Robert Wilson on Salome and Hamletmachine and co-founded the tiny mythic theatre company.
I am the Founding Artistic Director Emeritus of HERE, an award-winning progressive arts center in lower Manhattan where I cultivated artists and programs all events for over 30 years for two performance spaces–including 18 OBIE-award winners –for an annual audience of 30,000. I also co-founded and co-curated 13 editions of PROTOTYPE, a city-wide annual opera and music theatre festival.
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