CRINGE
(or #NO BETA WE DIE LIKE MEN)
PARKING LOT FAIRIES
MUSEUM
NOISES OFF
MICRODRAMAS:
508 + 90 DAYS
TODAY & TOMORROW
artist statement
I am a circus-informed and immigrant-influenced director, reveling in folktales, patterns, and embodied memory. For me, directing is community organizing: each piece I make is tactile and organic, duct-taped together through interdisciplinary investigation and emergent from the people in the room. I tell narratives that surprise, that find comfort in dimensionality. I write plays about pancakes and family dysfunction, paint life-loving snails which may-or-may not be squashed, and direct dramas with comedy improvisers.
I put collaborative storytelling at the center of my work and to bring shows outside of traditional venues, into places where my pieces can converse with geography and community. My schemes are two-fold: to create worlds for urgent, new work and to do it in spaces in which traditional leadership forms are dismantled through clown noses, Hall & Oates dance parties, and collective Wikipedia spirals.
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* Reading ✧ Upcoming
DIRECTING
CRINGE by the Three Sardines | 59E59, Edinburgh Fringe (2024)
THE MISANTHROPE by Olivia Hunt | HERE Arts Center (2024)
INSERTION by Sarah Groustra | The Connelly Theater (2024)
BIPOLAR BADASS by Marisol Crawford | Theatre Row (2024)
MUSEUM by Tina Howe | Fishmarket Theatre Co. (2024)
PARKING LOT FAIRIES by Franny Weed | Chain Theatre (2023)
SCENES WITH GIRLS by Miriam Battye | Cap & Bells (2021)
BURYA (THE TEMPEST) adapted Shakespeare | Williams College (2021)
SAVING WONDERLAND by Chad Gorn | Braving the Bard (2021)
LOVE’S LABOUR’S LOST by W. Shakespeare | Braving the Bard (2020)
NOISES OFF by Michael Frayn | Cap & Bells (2019)
SKANK by Phoebe Mattana | Cap & Bells (2018)
508 | 90 DAYS by A. Herzog, L. Meriwether | Williams College (2018)
WILL by Nadiya Atkinson | San Diego Fringe Festival (2018)
ASSOCIATE/ASSISTANT DIRECTING
IN THE COURT OF PUBLIC OPINION* by Terry Jastrow | dir. Margarett Perry | The Lark | 2019
A BOLD STROKE FOR A WIFE* by Susanna Centilivre | dir. Margarett Perry | The Resident Acting Co. | 2019
THE LAST DAYS OF JUDAS ISCARIOT by Stephen Adly Guirgis | dir. Shadi Ghaheri | Williams College | 2019
INSERTION
THE MISANTHROPE
BURYA
SCENES WITH GIRLS
O’NEILL + WILLIAMS
LAB WORK
BRAVING THE BARD
inspirations
clowns (of all sorts), folk stories, craft, long walks ((in stretch pants with lavender coifs)), complicite, Lygia Pape, a very niche movement called impressionism, Emergent Strategy, sci-fi, a decades old Sherlock Holmes love
dream directing
New works (of all sorts); The Old Man and the Old Moon; Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812; self-translated adaptation of The Cherry Orchard; installation art Hamlet (just give me 5 minutes, I’ll explain); anything circus related