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Upcoming:
Llontop. Irma Alvarez Ccoscco. The Wexner Center for the Arts Columbus, OH. Anonymous Ensemble. April 2024.
2023
DOROTHEA. Ted Hearne. Zankel Hall. October, 2023.
Fecund Error. Jerry Lieblich with music by Robert M. Johanson. At Prelude ‘23 hosted by The Tank, NYC. October 2023.
The Hunt. Kate Soper. October 2023. The Miller Theater at Columbia University. ⨳
Farming. Ted Hearne. The Crossing. The Big Sing Festival, The Netherlands. Caramoor, Katonah, NY. July and August 2023.⨳
Llontop. Irma Alvarez Ccoscco. Anonymous Ensemble. Pregones/PRTT May 2023. ⨳
The Threepenny Opera. Bertolt Brecht, Kurt Weill with Elisabeth Hauptmann. NYU Tisch. February 2023.
SPKR SPRKL: Kinetic Phonography. Bora Yoon. EMPAC. March 2023.⨳
2022
Rhymes With Opera Closing Performance. Rhymes With Opera. The Flea Theater. NYC. August 2022.
Dom Juan. Molière. Trans. Gideon Lester + Sylvaine Guyot. Luma Theater. Bard Fisher Center Summerscape. July 2022.
Con Alma Live. Paola Prestini and Magos Herrera. In-person performance adaptation of the multi-media online event created in December of 2020. Bellas Artes en Ciudad de México and El Obraje en San Miguel de Allende, México. March 2022.
2021
Three Weeks in Mahagonny. A workshop exploration of material from Weill/Brecht/Hauptmann’s The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny. The Luma Theater at Bard College’s Theater and Performance Program.
ISOLA. Alyssa Weinberg, J. Mae Barizo. Princeton Sound Kitchen. Princeton, NJ. ⨳
Stolen. Molly Herron, Maria Reva. Princeton Sound Kitchen. Princeton, NJ. (workshop) ⨳
Portrait and a Dream. Petuch. Part of Contemporaneous’s Day of Imagination World premieres.
Ipsa Dixit. Kate Soper. Wet Ink Ensemble. PS21. Chatham, NY.
Red Giant. Matlock and Slattery. An online adaptation of the new opera. Rhymes With Opera.
The Wildness. Worsham-Jarrow + Jarrow. An online adaptation of Sky-Pony’s rock- concert production of The Wildness. Ars Nova + The Play Co.
Coriolanus. Shakespeare. Workshop. Theatre for a New Audience.
Under One Sky. Kathryn Hamilton. Multi-media simulcasting event for cosmetics company, fresh, for the event of their employee global summit. With live performances by Helga Davis and video performances created with Dan Tepfer and Jeff Ziegler. National Sawdust and fresh. Broadcast online
2020
Con Alma. Paola Prestini and Magos Herrera. Multi-media simulcasting event of the album release. National Sawdust, Brooklyn; Canal 22 (México); WNET All-Arts; WQXR. And the internet.
In Absentia. Anisha Agarwal. MIT Playwrights Lab. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Music and Theater Arts. Cambridge, MA (and online).
Out of the Silence: A Celebration of Music. Director of the simulcasts of the four-concerts that comprise the season’s Bard Music Festival featuring The Orchestra Now (TōN). Bard College. Annandale-on-Hudson, NY.
I Once Was Lost But Now Am Found. A series of spoken word and choral performances and community engagement activities with artists and voting rights advocates from the Charlotte, NC area simulcast on the same nights as the RNC. School of Good Citizenship. Charlotte, NC and the internet.
Bard’s 160th Commencement Weekend. Directed the in real life and multi-cam, live simulcast of the four ceremonies that made up Bard College’s conclusion to the ’19/’20 academic year. Bard College. Annandale-on-Hudson, NY.
Follow me Into the Fields. John Luther Adams (adapt. Tata) with Alan Pierson and Alarm Will Sound. A promenade-style, environmental sonic and physical installation that intersects with live performance on nature trails through the venue’s landscape. PS21. Chatham, NY.
10,000 Birds. John Luther Adams. With Alan Pierson and Alarm Will Sound. PS21. Chatham, NY
Pssst. aka The Boot. Tata. An interactive virtual theater cyberformance. Beth Morrison Projects: Limitless. New York, NY and the Internet. ⨳
Mad Forest. Caryl Churchill. Theatre for a New Audience. Brooklyn, NY. [Virtual Theatrical Cyberformance]
Mad Forest. Caryl Churchill. Upstreaming at the Fisher Center at Bard College. Annandale-on-Hudson, NY. [Virtual Theatrical Cyberformance]
Purgatory in Ingolstadt. Marieluise Fleißer. Trans. Gitta Hoeneger. Marymount Manhattan College at the National Dance Institute. NY, NY.
The Art of Change. Jean-Baptiste Barrière. Mannes Opera at the New School. NY, NY. ⨳
2019
Crown! Poppea! (A proof of concept gesture). Feat. Ted Hearne + Eliza Bagg. From the opera by Monteverdi. Prelude Festival. Martin E. Segal Center. New York, NY.
Decameron. Nick Brooke. Coffey Studios. Brooklyn, NY.
At Black Lake. Dea Loher, Trans. Daniel Brunet. Necessary Digression and The Tank. New York, NY.
Bound. Huang Ruo and Bao-Long Chu. Fresh Squeezed Opera. Baruch Performing Arts Center, NYC.
Soldier Songs. David T. Little. Beth Morrison Projects. With video by Bill Morrison. Austin Opera, ATX.
Mosaic: Interactive. Ensemble. Found Sound Nation. Big Ears Festival. Knoxville, TN. Also as Production Designer.
Triptych: The Eyes of One on Another. Dessner, Arrington-Tuttle. Arktype Productions. Mass MoCA. With Daniel Fish.
2018
s.i.n.s.o.f.u.s. Marieluise Fleißer, Bertolt Brecht, Kurt Weill; Arrang. Tata. Theatre, Dance and Media at Harvard University. Cambridge, MA.
Ipsa Dixit. Kate Soper. Wet Ink Ensemble. Miller Theater as a part of their Composer Portrait Series. New York, NY
Soldier Songs. David T. Little. Beth Morrison Projects. With video by Bill Morrison. LA Opera. LA, CA
Stop Motion. Ensemble Contemporaneous. MATA Festival. The Kitchen, NYC.
Soldier Songs. David T. Little. Beth Morrison Projects. Fargo-Moorhead Opera. Fargo, ND.
Repatha Escape Room Experience. Tata. ACC Expo ’18. Orange County Convention Center. Orlando, FL. *Gold Medal Winner from Medical, Marketing and Media awards.
#TheNewOldHome (contributing director — audio play). Peca Stefan. PopUp Theatrics. Aufbau Haus am Moritzplatz. Berlin, Germany.
2017
Turing (staged presentation). William Antoniou and Eamonn Farrell. Anonymous Ensemble. National Sawdust.
St. Vincent’s Masseduction Escape. John Fram/Ashley Tata. Spotify.
Paradiso: The Memory Room. John Fram. Immersive Escape Productions.
Ipsa Dixit. Kate Soper. Wet Ink Ensemble. EMPAC. (2016) Dixon Place.
Cut Piece for Pants Suit (after Ono). Akalaitis/Tata.
Out of Bounds. Prototype Festival.
2016
Don Juan. Molière. Trans. Richard Wilbur. The Fisher Center at Bard College.
This Tree. Leah Coloff. CultureMart at HERE Arts Center.
Katzelmacher (reading excerpt). Rainer Werner Fassbinder. The Martin E. Segal Center.
Paradiso: The Escape Test. Immersive Escape Productions. With Michael Counts and Taylor Myers.
Paradiso: The Path of Beatrice. Immersive Escape Productions. With Michael Counts and Taylor Myers.
2015
Heartbreak Express. George Lam. Rhymes with Opera.
This Takes Place Close By. Paul Pinto, Gelsey Bell, Dave Ruder, Jeffrey Young, Andrew Livingston and Erin Rogers. thingNY. The Knockdown Center.
Encounter. Mojiao Wang. Beijing Modern Music Festival, National Centre for the Performing Arts, Beijing, China.
2014
Don Pasquale. Gaetano Donizetti. Venture Opera. The National Opera Center, NYC; Kay Meek Center, West Vancouver, BC.
Guard (2014). As part of The House Is Open at the Fisher Center for the Performing Arts. Bard College.
Soldier Songs. David T. Little. Beth Morrison Projects. The Atlas Performing Arts Center, Washington, DC; Muziekgebouw, The Holland Festival, Amsterdam.
Here I Am. Lainie Fefferman. Featuring Newspeak and Va Vocals. Roulette, Brooklyn.
FAUST (a tragedy). Bryan Quick. New Plays Now Festival of MFA playwrights’ thesis plays at Columbia University at the Signature Theatre.
Foreign Wars. Samara Weiss. Random Access Theatre Company.
Into the Woods. Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine. Post Theatre Company, Long Island University.
Dog Days. (semi-staged) David T. Little, Royce Vavrek. Beth Morrison Projects. Opera America New Works Forum. The National Opera Center, NYC.
2013
The Censorship of Lillian Hellman’s “The Children’s Hour” (Reading). The Martin E. Segal Center.
The Telephone. Gian-Carlo Menotti. Alchemical Theater Laboratory.
The Glory of Living. Rebecca Gilman. Revolve Productions.
2012
The Decay of Cities: NOLA. Devised by Enthuse Theater & Co. with additional, written text from Chekhov, Tennessee Williams and Tata. Dryades Performance Space, New Orleans Fringe Festival.
Dirt (Part 1). Samara Weiss. HERE Arts Summer Sublet Series.
The Decay of Cities: Farm. Devised by Enthuse Theater & Co. with additional text from Chekhov. The Wilkinson Family Farm, ME.
A Weimar Flute. Housing Works Bookstore. Morningside Opera Company.
The Good Person of Szechwan. Bertolt Brecht. Columbia Stages at the Riverside Theatre.
Rejoice in the Imperative. Samara Weiss. The Lucrece Project at NYU.
2011
Presence. Crossing the Line Festival.
Director of the Columbia School of the Arts Diploma Presenting Ceremony
Lucrece from the Dark. Samara Weiss. The Lucrece Project at NYU.
Internet Famous (reading). Meghan Deans. Ensemble Studio Theatre’s Bloodworks Festival.
2010
Forget This City (After Euripides). Samara Weiss. Enthuse Theater.
Common Tongue. Sam Chanse. Panoply Theatre Festival.
2009
Through Fred. Stephen Belber. Passion of The Play Productions.
The Clouds. Aristophanes. Enthuse Theater.
2008
Antígona Furiosa. Griselda Gambaro. Enthuse Theater.
Envy from “The Seven Deadly Sins” (workshop). The Internationalists.
2007
My Children! My Africa! Athol Fugard. United Artists of Color Theatre.
Julius Caesar (reading). William Shakespeare. Hudson Warehouse. 2007.
2006
The Bacchae. Euripides. Hudson Warehouse. 2006.
Othello. William Shakespeare. Pale Horse Productions. With Rob Eggers —NYIT Award winner.
2001
Nosferatu. F.W. Murnau. Edwin Booth Theatre. With Rob Eggers.
ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR
2019
Judgment Day. Ödön von Horváth. Adapt. Chris Shinn. Directed by Richard Jones. The Park Avenue Armory.
2018
Oklahoma! Rogers and Hammerstein. Directed by Daniel Fish. St. Ann's Warehouse. (Obie Award Special Citation for Director and Creative Team. The production went on to win a Tony for Best Revival of a Musical, 2019).
Some of the People, All of the Time. David Levine. Brooklyn Museum.
2017
Persona. Keeril Makan, Jay Scheib (after the film by Ingmar Bergman). Jay Scheib, Director. National Sawdust, Brooklyn, October 2015; LA Opera at REDCAT.
Not Mozart’s 40th. Created by Jayce Ogren and Michael Counts. Atelier at Princeton University.
Road Trip. Michael Gordon, David Lang and Julia Wolf. Bang on a Can. Michael Counts, Director. Ford Ampitheater, LA; Brooklyn Academy of Music Howard Gilman Opera House.
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR
2017
Blank Out. Michel van der Aa. Michel van der Aa, Director. Park Avenue Armory.
2016
Ouroboros Trilogy. Cerise Jacobs, Paola Prestini, Scott Wheeler, Zhou Long. Michael Counts, Director. Cutler Majestic Theater. Beth Morrison Projects.
Dog Days. David T. Little, Royce Vavrek. Robert Woodruff, Director. Beth Morrison Projects. PROTOTYPE Festival at the Skirball Center; LA Opera Off Grand (2015);Fort Worth Opera (2015); Peak Performances at Montclair State University (2012).
The Source. Ted Hearne, Mark Doten. Daniel Fish, Director. Beth Morrison Projects. LA Opera Off Grand; BAM Next Wave Festival (2014).
2015
Who Left This Fork Here? Daniel Fish, Director. Baryshnikov Arts Center.
2014
The Protagonist. Kurt Weill, Georg Kaiser. Edwin Cahill, Director. Fire Island Opera Festival.
Atomic The Musical. Danny Ginges, Gregory Bonsignore, Phillip Foxman. Damien Gray, Director/Producer. The Acorn Theatre at Theatre Row.
Visitations. Jonathan Berger. Rinde Eckert, Director. PROTOTYPE Festival. Beth Morrison Projects.
2013
Matsukaze. Toshio Hosokawa. Chen Shi-Zheng, Director. Spoleto Festival, USA; Lincoln Center Festival.
2012
love fail. David Lang (Composer and Director). Beth Morrison Projects. The New Haven Festival of Arts and Ideas; BAM’s Next Wave Festival.
WORKSHOP/REHEARSAL ASSISTANTSHIPS
2016
Job. Developmental workshop. Robert Woodruff, Bill Camp, Evan Ziporyn, Creators. Yale Repertory Theater. (And 2015).
2015
Bat Out of Hell. Developmental Lab. Jim Steinman. Jay Scheib, Director.
Bad News! I was there… JoAnne Akalaitis, Director. New York Theater Workshop Monday Night Reading Series.
2014
3 Sisters. After Chekhov. Daniel Fish, Director. Workshop at Baryshnikov Arts Center. (And 2015).
2013
Anatomy Titus. Heiner Müller. Robert Woodruff, Director. Martin E. Segal Center.
Trade Practices. Created by Kristin Marting and David Evans Morris. Kristin Marting, Director.
2012
Elsewhere. Created by Maya Beiser and Robert Woodruff with compositions by Eve Beglarian, Michael Gordon and Missy Mazzoli. Robert Woodruff, Director. Beth Morrison Projects.
falsepeach. Created by Annie Dorsen. Annie Dorsen, Director. (Premiered at BAM’s Next Wave as A Piece of Work).
RESIDENCIES
2020
153 Coffey - Red Hook, Brooklyn
Brooklyn Academy of Music Artist in residence (inaugural cohort).
FESTIVAL PARTICIPATION
2018
RADIKAL JUNG FESTIVAL. Guest. Volkstheater. Munich, Germany
2011
CROSSING THE LINE 2011. “Presence”. fi:af. New York, NY.
PRAGUE QUADRENNIAL: SCENOFEST SIX ACTS. 3rd Act with Louise Anne Wilson. Prague, Czech Republic: Participant/Student Artist.
2008
INTERNATIONAL BULGAKOV ARTS FESTIVAL Kiev, Ukraine: Invitee.
AWARDS + HONORS
2021
MAP Grant Recipient
2017
Opera America Robert L.B. Tobin Director-Designer Showcase Winner.
2014
Lotos Foundation Prize in the Arts and Sciences grant given to an Emerging Artist.
2007
Graduated Summa Cum Laude. Member of Omicron Delta Kappa and The National Honors Society. Gerard Scholar Recipient. Recipient of The Gold Key in Theatre Studies. Honors Colloquium Presenter.
TALKS + PANELS
2021 The Future of Transmedia Performance. Part of Mahindra Humanities Center at Harvard Transmedia Arts Seminar.
2020 Fisher Center At Bard: The Making of Mad Forest. Part of Up-Streaming
2020 Chicago Opera Theater: The Future is Now. Part of Inner Workings Series
2020 Segal Talks: Ashley Tata. Part of the Segal Center’s online programming
EDUCATION AND PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF THE ARTS: MFA. Theatre Directing. With Anne Bogart, Brian Kulick, Gideon Lester, James Leverett, Christian Parker, Arnold Aronson, Barney O’Hanlon, Tory Bailey
MARYMOUNT MANHATTAN COLLEGE: BA. Theatre Studies with an emphasis in Dramaturgy. Graduated Summa Cum Laude. Member of Omicron Delta Kappa and The National Honors Society. Honors Colloquium Presenter. With Mary Fleischer, Mark Ringer, Jordan Shildcrout
CENTER FOR THEATRE PRACTICES, GARDZIENICE: Participant in Anthropological Performance Intensive, with Włodzimierz Staniewski and members of Center for Theatre Practices, Gardzienice, Poland.
Mask and Clowning Intensive with Duccio Bellugi-Vannuccini of Ariane Mnouchkine’s Le Théâtre du Soleil.
LINCOLN CENTER THEATRE DIRECTOR’S LAB: Participant