In the news

10.28.21   Panelist: “Making Feminist Theatre (and Making Theatre Feminist)  Digital Theatre+ webinar, October 28, 12pm EST. Joined by directors Katie Mitchell, Keziah Serreau, Candace D’Meza, moderated by Lisa Peck. See the recording here.

9.15.21   Award: National Touring Project   PearlDamour’s Ocean Filibuster receives the prestigious NTP Award, facilitating touring through 2025. Read about it here.

7.15.21    Published Essay, Theater Topics: Total Dramaturgical Collapse in The Method Gun–American Theater in Pandemic Time  Co-written with Jaclyn I. Pryor. Read the essay here.

1.15.21    Fellowship: Wesleyan University Center for the Humanities  Appointed a CHUM fellow at Wesleyan to pursue a book project using the ephemera from the filming of The Rest I Make Up, the documentary about Maria Irene Fornés made in collaboration with filmmaker Michelle Memran. Public talk April 19th, here.

5.2.20   The Method Gun premieres!  In one of the first-ever pandemic-era Zoom performances, my Wesleyan student ensemble shines– garnering international attention. You can watch it here.

7.1.19   Named Assistant Professor, Wesleyan University   I will be joining the faculty of Wesleyan’s Theater Department as a tenure track Assistant Professor of Directing. Faculty profile here.

9.15.18    Workshop: SUNY Purchase “‘Conversation Constellations”  Creating new tools with the advanced playwriting students to develop their new plays.

2.15.18    Workshop: The Home States Project With NYU/Playwrights Horizons students. What happens when you mash up personal biography with state and civic history? In conjunction with my own Home State performance about Oklahoma, OK OK!,  at the Ko Festival in July 2018.

12.15.17   Development: OCEAN FILIBUSTER @ the A.R.T. Two more great sessions of work with Lisa D’Amour on our newest PearlDamour piece, commissioned by the ART and Harvard University Center for the Environment. Now we’ve worked with three extraordinary actors in three separate sessions, learning how the actor’s body and identity impacts the content of the piece: Daniel Alexander Jones, Taylor Mac, and Jenn Kidwell have each stepped in as our performer, and it’s been incredibly enlightening each time. We’ve reunited with our old collaborator Sxip Shirey (SLABBER) on the song composition.

9.1.17   Guest Chair of Directing, University of California San Diego   As the 2017 Quinn Martin Guest Chair of Directing at UCSD, I will teach a collaborative creation class for all incoming MFA students and direct WHAT OF THE NIGHT? by Maria Irene Fornés.

8.1.17   Production: RED HILLS  I’m directing the new play RED HILLS by Sean Christopher Lewis, co-produced by Quantum Theatre (Pittsburgh) and En Garde Arts (NYC).  Premiering in Pittsburgh August 2017, coming to NYC May 2018.

7.1.17   Commission: Climate Change Theater Action Project.   My play APPRECIATION will be performed around the country and is currently being adapted for performance in Greek at the ‘Art for Change 17’ festival in Athens, Greece by performer Olivia Kaloudi.

5.15.17  Production: PearlDamour’s MILTON  MILTON finally makes it to Milton, Massachusetts! The production and accompanying Elder Playfest are key pieces of MILTON REFLECTING, PealDamour’s year-long collaboration with the town of Milton, MA to bring creative programming to Miltonians of all ages in order to provide opportunities to talk about, reflect on, and celebrate that extraordinary diversity of that town.  (Part of our 5-town “Milton” Project, started in 2012.)

12.15.16  Commission: American Repertory Theater/Harvard University Center for the Environment  PearlDamour dives into development of our new piece about the deep oceans (…and that’s pretty much all we know!).

12.2.16   Reading: Town Hall at Ensemble Studio Theater   I’m directing a reading of Caridad Svich’s new piece for four actors. Town Hall is about being an audience, about the times in which we live, about what we could do to change the world.

12.1.16  Performance: AFTER ORLANDO My piece “Today is a Good Day” will next be performed at Brandeis University as part of the Missing Bolts/No Passport/ Daryl Roth action After Orlando. Spingold Theater Center, Brandeis University, Waltham MA

8.15.16  Art Burst:  National Performance Network Conference. Invited artist at the NPN annual convening in Austin, TX– representing PearlDamour and also sharing some of my individual work.  Watch the 6 minute  “Art Burst” performance of my show-in-progress ok Ok OK!