PLAYS & PERFORMANCE TEXTS

381 Bleecker
While I’ve Got You Here
The Caregiving Project
Waiting: A Play in Three Phases
Sympathetic Division
Things That Live on Departure
Short Works

It’s 2015, and Meg, an avant-garde choreographer in her early 60s, is losing the West Village apartment where she’s spent her entire adult life. When her sister, Ellen, shows up with her son, David, to help Meg pack, the two women must reckon with a complicated snarl of old wounds connected to their brother’s battle with AIDS in the 1980s.

Development History:
Bay Area Playwrights Festival (semi-finalist), Rivendell Theatre Ensemble (reading), Florida Atlantic Theatre Lab (reading), UT New Theatre (workshop production), O’Neill National Playwrights Conference (semi-finalist)

A non-linear performance text that interrogates the nature of the self—and of consciousness—by fracturing a single person’s embodied experience of the past and present into the bodies and voices of ten different performers.

Development History:
UT-Austin (workshop led by Pirronne Yousefzadeh)

An interactive solo work that weaves together autobiographical storytelling, live audience interview, and other participatory performance techniques to investigate the complexities of caregiving in the many ways it appears in our lives. The audience generates the majority of the text in the live moment of the performance, guided by the malleable framework of the performer's questions and stories.

Development History:
Cohen New Works Festival (workshop production), UT-Austin (workshop led by KJ Sanchez)

A triptych of surreal short works that explore the dislocations and absurdities of mourning in the secular digital age.

Development History:
New York International Film Festival (production), Six Figures Theater Company (workshop production)

Armed with her father’s lecture notes as a guide, the daughter of two eminent neuroscientists takes us back in time through the critical interactions that led to her family’s dissolution. A memory play about one family trying to face itself as it splits apart, and one woman’s body trying to release the legacy of the threats it survived.

Development History:
Ensemble Studio Theater’s Octoberfest (reading), Midtown International Theater Festival (production/winner - best direction), Sweeter Theater (workshop & production)

In the quiet, after her twenty-year marriage has ended, her children have grown, and her battle with breast cancer is over, a woman has exactly one hour to decide what she will take and what she will leave behind as she moves forward into the unfamiliar.

Development History:
Dixon Place (page to stage series & workshop production)

TIRAMISU

Ava and Nora have been planning every detail of their at-home insemination for months. But when Ava’s sister arrives for a visit with Nonna in tow—three hours earlier than planned—masterful tactics of distraction and creative uses of the walk-in closet must be deployed.

DEMETER ON THE SLOPES

When the earth opened up and swallowed her daughter, Demeter retaliated with unending winter until the powers that be promised Persephone would return for six months out of the year. The snow was intended as a renunciation of life, but without meaning to, Demeter has discovered skiing. Now Persephone is back on her doorstep, and skis are very difficult to hide.

HOLY O

Ms. Machetti wants to know exactly how long she’s expected to sit in her nursing home bed with no one to talk to and nothing to do. And she does NOT want to take a shower right now. Travis and Jerzy want to preserve their own dignity and hers as they move through the daily routines of one of the hardest jobs in America. But when you’re caring for a stranger’s body, uncomfortable intimacies can spring up where you least expect them.