HIGHLIGHTS
June 2021
“Gutter Notes,” an excerpted interview born from from my studio visit with artists Tamy Ben-Tor and Miki Carmi, will be
published in Minerva Projects’ Text Book: Tamy Ben-Tor and Miki Carmi.
May 2021
Artist Finalist award in Dramatic Writing from Mass Cultural Council.
September 2019
Birds is discussed in Acts of Poetry: American Poets’ Theater and the Politics of Performance by Heidi R. Bean (University of Michigan Press).
October 11–27, 2018
Tryouts will receive its world premiere at Salvage Vanguard Theater (dir. Diana Lynn Small).
Dougherty Arts Center
1110 Barton Springs Road
Austin, TX
May 2018
I am currently collaborating as a librettist with composer Leaha Maria Villarreal on her new piece, Crossing The Rubicon.
February 15–17 and 22–24, 2018
I will premiere my video/live performance piece, Picture This (directed by Natalya Baldyga), as part of Sleeping Weazel's A Winter Gathering of New Music & Multimedia Performance, featuring works by Thread Ensemble, Kirsten Volness, and Ioana Jucan (in collaboration with Amanda Andrei, Maurice Decaul, Juwon Jun, and Jing Xu).
7:30 pm
Plaza Black Box Theatre
Boston Center for the Arts
539 Tremont Street
Boston, MA
February 17, 2017
Allison Vanouse interviewed me for spoKe poetry annual, issue 4 (in which an excerpt from Birds was included). The launch will be held at Grolier Poetry Book Shop, 6 Plympton Street, Cambridge, MA. 7:00–9:00 pm.
Late June 2016
I was an artist resident at the inaugural Sedona Summer Colony in Sedona, AZ.
June 2–11, 2016
Sleeping Weazel premiered Birds (directed by Shana Gozansky) alongside Charlotte Meehan's Beesus & Ballustrada and Kate Snodgrass' The Last Bark as part of The Birds and The Bees, a festival of new works at Boston Center for The Arts.
7:30 pm
Plaza Black Box Theatre
Boston Center for the Arts
539 Tremont Street
Boston, MA
April 19, 2016
New York-based composer Leaha Maria Villareal's Never Not (for voice and chamber ensemble), featuring set text from Birds, received its Los Angeles premiere as part of 21c Liederabend (a project of Beth Morrison Projects and VisionIntoArt, in collaboration with the LA Phil).
8:00 pm
Los Angeles Philharmonic
Walt Disney Music Hall
111 S Grand Avenue
Los Angeles, CA
May 25, 2015
Tryouts was selected by the Great Plains Theatre Conference for its PlayLab series.
4:15 pm
Metropolitan Community College
Fort Omaha Campus
Room SCC 201F
Omaha, NE
FREE
April 17, 2015
I spoke on a panel with other producers about being an emerging artist in the Boston theatre landscape. The event was called Treading Water or Treading the Boards?, and it was moderated by Melia Bensussen and Meg Taintor.
3:30–5:00 pm
The Paramount Center, Studio 7
555 Washington Street
Boston, MA
FREE
April 16, 2015
Sleeping Weazel Artistic Director Charlotte Meehan and I co-wrote an article, The Means of Production: Snapshots from the Field—Part II, published by HowlRound.
January 5–6, 2015
My short plays, Language and Other Ideals (directed by Lindsay Eagle) and Split Second (directed by Hatem Adell), were presented as part of The 4th Annual Boston One-Minute Play Festival.
8:00 pm
Boston Playwrights' Theatre
989 Commonwealth Avenue
Boston, MA
June 19–21, 2014
Sleeping Weazel premiered Talk To At Me as part of Doubles, Demons, and Dreamers: a festival of plays, trans cabaret, and solo performance at Boston Center for The Arts. Directed by Shana Gozansky.
Boston Center for the Arts
Plaza Black Box Theatre
539 Tremont Street
Boston, MA
Talk To At Me was supported in part by a grant from the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts.
February 22, 2014
New York-based composer Leaha Maria Villareal's Never Not (for voice and chamber ensemble) set text from an early version of Birds. It was commissioned by Wild Rumpus and received its world premiere in the ensemble's "The Light Within" concert.
8:00 pm
Trinity Chapel
2320 Dana Street
Berkeley, CA
September 25, 2013
My article, "On Becoming a Playwright-Producer," was published by HowlRound.
September 23, 2013
I wrote lyrics for Providence-based composer Kirsten Volness' "Across The Oceans," one of three songs in her cycle, Precious Nothing (for mezzo-soprano, mixed octet, and electronics). Hotel Elefant premiered the cycle and Ear Heart Music presented it.
8:00 pm
Roulette
509 Atlantic Avenue
Brooklyn, NY
July 2013
2014 Fellowship Merit Award in Playwriting/Screenwriting from the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts.
April 17, 2013
Read my thoughts about Rhode Island Peformance Exchange, a collaborative group I was involved with, in GoLocalProv's feature.
March 8-9, 2013
Sleeping Weazel presented a workshop production of Tryouts (directed by Cecelia Raker) as part of its four-day festival, WOMEN IN ACTION: a new wave of art, theatre, music, and performance.
7:30 pm
The Factory Theatre
791 Tremont Street
Boston, MA
Read the EDGE Boston review of Tryouts.
February 20, 2013
A short play of mine was included in Station Nation: A National Reflection on the Station Nightclub Fire, a commemorative event organized by Erik Ehn and Connie Crawford with Brown University.
9:30 pm
First Baptist Church
Providence, RI
September 30, 2012
I (alongside Charlotte Meehan and Vanessa Gilbert) represented Sleeping Weazel on a panel discussing new modes of theatrical production during Brown University's All That Rises Festival.
12:00–3:00 pm
McCormack Family Theatre
70 Brown Street
Providence, RI
FREE
May 9, 2012
Sleeping Weazel presented a reading of an excerpt from my new play, Talk To At Me, as part of Pin To Dry: an evening of theatre, dance, and performance.
7:30 pm
The Factory Theatre
791 Tremont Street
Boston, MA