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[devised with the ensemble]
(3M, 3F), 2 hrs. 15 min.
Presented by The Assembly at The Collapsable Hole, July 2011.
An ensemble-devised piece of political theater exploring the history of the 1960s radical group, The Weather Underground. Disgusted by the Vietnam War and the government’s repression of those seeking equality domestically, a handful of leaders from the 1960s student movement seized control of Students for a Democratic Society and reshaped it in the name of overthrowing the United States government. Believing violence to be the only means to a true and lasting peace, these passionate idealists accelerated a movement to its fervor, but left a country behind.
BrainExplode!
[co-written with Richard Lovejoy and Danny Bowes]
(2M, 1F), 1 hr. 30 min.
Presented by Sneaky Snake Productions at The Brick’s Game Play Festival, July 2011.
The year is 1987, and eminent diversion engineer Ray Pinter has a problem: his mind has been wired to explode in one hour. In a fully interactive theatrical experience, audience members navigate Ray through a live-action adventure game, giving him commands as he confronts futuristic technology, supernatural antagonists, and his own personal demons. Combining the best aspects of interactive fiction and live theater, BrainExplode! is an ambitious new form of storytelling that will resonate with anyone who has ever been drugged, kidnapped, and given an hour to prevent their brain from exploding.
The Dark Heart of Meteorology
(1M), 1 hr.
Developed at The Flea Theater, July 2008.
Presented by The Assembly at the Philadelphia Fringe Festival, September 2009.
Presented by The Assembly and Horse Trade Theater Group at UNDER St. Marks, October 2009.
A barely-multimedia presentations–part lecture/slideshow, part happening–about natural disasters, large and small. Amid concerns about global warming and an uncertain future, Franklin Elijah White is traveling across the country on an increasingly quixotic and personal journey. Aided only by a slide projector and assorted meteorological equipment, he has a simple message: The weather is going to kill us all. Every single one of us.
What I Took in My Hand
(4M), 1 hr.
Developed by The Ontological-Hysteric Short-Form Incubator, January-April 2008.
Presented by The American Story Project at The Ontological-Hysteric Theater, May 2008.
A theatrical chamber piece about hope, grief, and genius in the midst of a rapidly modernizing world. Beginning inside the Spirit of St. Louis midway through its trans-Atlantic journey, What I Took in My Hand follows Charles A. Lindbergh through the death of his son, his manic attempts to build a machine to cheat death, and his eventual reconciliation with mortality as he digs his own grave.
Daguerreotype
(2M, 1F), 1 hr 30 min.
Presented by The American Story Project at The Abingdon Theater, August 2007
Matthew Brady’s images defined the Civil War. Now, at the twilight of his life, Matthew must choose between the life he has built and the legacy he wants to leave behind. A fascinating and candid journey into the mind of one of America’s unsung artistic pioneers, and the iconic and powerful nature of the photograph.
We Can’t Reach You, Hartford
[co-written with Jess Chayes]
(4M, 3F), 2 hrs.
Presented by The American Story Project at The Edinburgh Fringe Festival, August 2006.
Presented by The Wesleyan University Theater Department, Spring 2007.
The true story of the Hartford Circus Fire of July 6th, 1944. One month after D-Day, the Hartford Circus Fire — which killed 168 circus-goers, mostly women and children — seemed a small tragedy. But the story of the fire that destroyed “The Greatest Show on Earth” raises the most fundamental questions about he loss of a city’s innocence, a missing girl who becomes the object of obsession and a search for the truth in a piece of history that no one can reach.
Spalding Gray is Missing
(2M), 45 min.
Presented by Second Stage at the ’92 Theater (Middletown, CT), May 2006.
A haunting meditation on identity and storytelling. Spalding Gray went missing on January 10, 2004. On March 7, his body was pulled from the East River. 3 days short of 2 months-is that long enough to swim to Cambodia? An imagined final monologue resurrecting a legendary performer.