Hi! Here’s a quick list of things that interest me:
Ambitious, unconventional, emotional, funny new musicals
Experiments in hyper-precise rhythm and music
Heightened language, foreign languages, and verbal games
Assembling groups to raise plays together
Investigating ideologies and belief systems
Establishing fair, just, and non-exploitative practices for NYC theatre, especially re: Off-Off Broadway and early-career artists
Reimagining the visual language of cinema in theatre
“American Studies” projects (plays and musicals that explore personal, cultural, intellectual, historical and philosophical layers of American life)
I’m currently developing the new musical A Burning Church through New Ohio/IRT’s Archive Residency and A Blade of Grass’s fellowship for socially-engaged art, as well as Musical Theatre Factory’s MAKERS cohort. I’m co-directing and co-bookwriting with Zhailon Levingston, and Nehemiah Luckett is composing. The show traces the recent history of an ever-evolving church in Alabama in order to consider what the American church tells us about our country, how theology fits into leftist movements, and what comes after an institution burns down.
Assistant credits include Side Show (Broadway, Kennedy Center), School of Rock (Broadway), and film projects directed by Bill Condon.
photo by Cortney Armitage