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P R O D U C I N G                      

                                                                         

THE PUBLIC THEATER (Under the Radar listed under Festival Producing):

MAKE ME DOWN: SONGS FOR MAKING IT THROUGH ALIVE* By The HawtPlates (Jade Hicks, Kenita Miller-Hicks, and Justin Hicks), 2020

THE LINE* (Jessica Blank & Erik Jensen), Line Producer, The Public Theater Digital Summer Season, 2020

THE VAGRANT TRILOGY V. 2020 (Mona Mansour, dir. Mark Wing-Davey), Line Producer, The Public Theater, (I got the show to Day 3 of tech before lockdown!)  

A BRIGHT ROOM CALLED DAY (Tony Kushner, dir. Oskar Eustis), Line Producer, The Public Theater, 2019    

SOFT POWER* (David Henry Hwang, Jeanine Tesori, dir. Leigh Silverman), Line Producer, The Public Theater, 2019

WE’RE ONLY ALIVE FOR A SHORT AMOUNT OF TIME* (David Cale, dir. Robert Falls), Line Producer, The Public Theater, 2019

GIRL FROM THE NORTH COUNTRY* (Conor McPherson), Line Producer, The Public Theater, 2018 

CYPRUS AVENUE (David Ireland, dir. Vicky Featherstone), Line Producer, The Public Theater, 2018

MLIMA’S TALE* (Lynn Nottage, dir. Jo Bonney), Line Producer, The Public Theater, 2018

BLACK LIGHT (Daniel Alexander Jones), Line Producer, Joe’s Pub @ The Public Theater, 2018    

HAIR TO HAMILTON, 50 Years of Revolutionary Musicals (The Public's Annual Gala, Directed by Daniel Sullivan), Line Producer, The Delacorte, 2017 

LET IT SHINE (Mosaic Youth Theatre of Detroit), Line Producer, Joe's Pub, 2017   

 

ADDITIONAL NEW YORK:

A SHINING LIGHT: An Online Benefit (Steve Cosson), Line Producer, The Civilians Theater Company, 2020

SELF PORTRAITS* (Phillip Howze, dir Stevie Walker-Webb), Producer, The Open Festival at BRIC Arts, 2019

LAZARUS Film Shoot (dir. Ivo Van Howe), Producer, New York Theatre Workshop, 2016

THE NEXT PAGE Reading Series, Line Producer, Atlantic Theater Company, 2009

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YALE:

YALE SCHOOL OF DRAG (3rd Annual), Producer, Co-Curator, Co-Host, Yale Cabaret, 2015

LOOK UP, SPEAK NICELY, AND DON'T TWIDDLE YOUR FINGERS ALL THE TIME* (Emily Zemba, dir. Ato Blankson-Wood), Producer, Yale Cabaret, 2014

MYSTERY BOY* (Chris Bannow & Helen Jaksch), Creative Producer, Yale Cabaret, 2014

WE FIGHT WE DIE (Timothy Guillot, dir by Jireh Holder), Creative Producer, Yale Cabaret 2014

YALE SCHOOL OF DRAG (2nd Annual), Producer, Co-Curator, Yale Cabaret, 2014

HAVE I NONE (Edward Bond, dir. Jessica Holt), Creative Producer, Yale Cabaret, 2014

DERIVATIVES* (by Jabari Brisport & Ensemble, dir. Cole Lewis), Creative Producer, Yale Cabaret, 2013

RADIO HOUR* (by Paula Bennett, Steve Brush, Tyler Keiffer), Creative Producer, Yale Cabaret, 2013

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F E S T I V A L   P R O D U C I N G             

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UNDER THE RADAR FESTIVAL, 2021, Associate Producer, The Public Theater: A Free Festival On-Demand, Live Streamed, and On the Phone, 2021

          Artists include: 600 Highwaymen; Whitney White + Peter Mark Kendall; Teatro Anonímo; Piehole, The Javaad Alipoor Company; Inua Ellams;

          The Devised Theater Working Group's Incoming! (Savon Bartley, Nile Harris, Miranda Haymon, Eric Lockley, Raelle Myrick-Hodges, Mia Rovegno,

          Justin Elizabeth Sayre, and Mariana Valencia)

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ONASSIS FESTIVAL: DEMOCRACY IS COMING, Festival Producer, The Public Theater, Joe’s Pub, LaMaMa, Astor Place, 2019

          Artists include Lena Kitsopoulou; Euripides Laskaridis; 600 Highwaymen; Choir! Choir! Choir! w/ Patti Smith.

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UNDER THE RADAR FESTIVAL, 2019, Festival Producer, The Public, Joe's Pub, Skirball, BRIC Arts, Metropolitan Museum of Art, SVA Film, 2019             

          Artists include: Tania El Khoury; Manual Cinema; Flaco Navaja; New Saloon; Lola Arias; Rude Mechs; Ifeoma Fafunwa; Plexus Polaire; The Kilbanes;

          Peter Mills Weiss and Julia Mounsey; James & Jerome

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UNDER THE RADAR FESTIVAL, 2018, Festival Producer, The Public, Joe's Pub, Skirball, BRIC Arts, Japan Society, LaMaMa, 2018

          Artists include: Toshi Reagon & Bernice Johnson Reagon; Teatro El Público; Andrew Schneider; Nature Theater of Oklahoma; Dickie Beau; Wang Chong; 

          Jessica Blank & Erik Jensen; David Cale; Adam Gopnik; Ayesha Jordan & Charlotte Brathwaite; Satoshi Miyagi; Motus; Choir! Choir! Choir! w/ David Byrne; 

          Janek Turkowski; Roger Guenveur Smith & CalArts Center for New Performance; Split Britches

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POP! A POP-UP PERFORMANCE FESTIVAL, Producer/Artistic Director/Curator, The Party Line/Various Venues & Public Spaces in Bushwick, Brooklyn, 2016

          Artists listed under Performance Curation

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INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF ARTS AND IDEAS, Main Stage Artist Services Coordinator, 2015

          Artists include: Mark Morris Dance Group; Angélique Kidjo with Ibeyi; Darlene Love;  Dan Zanes; Kurt Elling with the New Haven Symphony Orchestra;

          Pistolera; Lucinda Williams; Mary McBride; Passion for Bach and Coltrane Imani Winds; Plena Libre with Carlos Santiago y Su Momento Musical

 

INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF ARTS AND IDEAS, Main Stage Artist Services Coordinator, 2014

          Artists include: Lalah Hathaway & Ruben Studdard; Dianne Reeves with the New Haven Symphony Orchestra; Regina Carter Southern Comfort;   

          The Gloaming; Bronze Radio Return; La Santa Cecilia with Nation Beat, Brandy Clark; Martha Redbone Roots Project with Cry You One

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SKETCHBOOK FESTIVAL (12th Annual), Associate Producer, Curatorial Team, Collaboraction, 2012           

          Artists include: Dean Evans; Patrese D. McClain + Jessica Ellis; Meredith Miller; Dani Bryant + Erica Barnes; Beatrice Bosco + Lloyd Brodnax King; 

          Ike Holter; The New Colony; Carlos Murillo; Harlotry & Necromancy Appreciation Society; Kevin O'Donnell + Kasey Foster; Lee August Praley; 

          Kristin Idaszak; Greg Moss 

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STRAPPED Play Festival, Producing Director, The Inconvenience, Chicago 2010

          Writers include: Chelsea Marcantel; Ike Holter; Caitlin Montayne Parrish; Mackenzie Yeager; Aaron Weissman; Mark Mason E. Frances Cowles

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POST-TRAUMATIC Play Festival, Producing Director, The Inconvenience, Chicago 2009

          Writers include: Ike Holter; Caitlin Montayne Parrish; Jason Gray Platt; Mark Mason

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P E R F O R M A N C E  C U R A T I O N

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SALONATHON, "SalonathOnline" weekly online series, Curator, 2020

          Artists include: Ato Blankson-Wood; Dickie Beau; Whitney White; Arturo Soria; Modesto Flako Jimenez; Stephanie Hayes; Chance Bone; Chalia La Tour;   

          Michael Breslin + Patrick Foley; Jaime Sunwoo; Mariana Sanchez; Emily Zemba; Raymond J. Lee; Audrey Frischman; Bradley Tejeda; Cornelius Davidson 

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UNDER THE RADAR'S DEVISED THEATER WORKING GROUP, Curation Team, 2019          

          Artists include: Sean Donovan; Aya Ogawa; Lorelei Ramirez; Sam Max with Caitlin Ryan O'Connell; Eva Von Schweinitz; Whitney White

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DESSERT: A QUEER PERFORMANCE SERIES, Curator, Next Door at New York Theater Workshop, 2018

          Artists include: Ryan Haddad; Joseph Keckler; Theda Hammel; Krishna Istha; Brian Rady; Sam Max; Hannah Hiaasen; Maybe Burke; Seth   

          Timothy Larson; Abigail Entsminger; Shannon Matesky's Queer Abstract; Sylvan Oswald's High Winds with Jerome Ellis

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UNDER THE RADAR'S DEVISED THEATER WORKING GROUP, Curation Team, 2018

          Artists include: George & Co.; harunalee; Kareem M. Lucas; Modesto Flako Jimenez; Annie Saunders with Becca Wolff; Peter Mills Weiss & Julia Mounsey

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POP! A POP-UP PERFORMANCE FESTIVAL, Producer/Artistic Director/Curator, The Party Line/Various Venues & Public Spaces in Bushwick, Brooklyn, 2016

          Artists include: Ato Blankson-Wood; Shannon Matesky; James Cusati-Moyer; Hunter Kaczorowski with Lauren Dubowski; Lydia Blaisdell; Jack Ramsey; 

          100 Owls in a Room; Jax Jackson; Lauren Zeftel; Jacob Perkins; Brian Rady; Celeste Arias; Doll Parts; The Middle Voice; Phillip Howze; Tom Pecinka

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SALONATHON, "Applied Studies Showcase" weekly series, Curator, Chicago's Beauty Bar, 2011-2012

          Artists include: Joel Kim Booster; Ike Holter; Lady/Watch (Tien Tran + Kieran Kredell); The Fly Honeys; Les Enfants Terrible; Philip Sparkle; Sam Deutsch; 

          Shannon Matesky; Egg and Alfie: Detectives at Large; The Untitled French Ye-Ye Show; Kasey Foster; Blake Russell; Tif Bullard; Calamity West

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D R A M A T U R G Y          

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SUPERSTITIONS* (by Emily Zemba, dir. Jenna Worsham), The Pool/New Ohio Theater, 2021 (Dramaturgy Consultant)

SELF PORTRAITS* (by Phillip Howze, dir. Margot Bordelon), Lincoln Center Education, 2016

DEER AND THE LOVERS* (by Emily Zemba, dir. Sara Holdren), 10th Carlotta Festival, Yale School of Drama, 2015

THE SEAGULL (dir. Jessica Holt) Iseman Theater/Director’s Thesis, Yale School of Drama, 2014

TINY BOYFRIEND* (by Phillip Howze, dir. Sara Holdren), Langston Hughes Festival, Yale School of Drama, 2013

LOTTIE IN THE LATE AFTERNOON* (by Amelia Roper, dir. Ethan Heard), 8th Carlotta Festival, Yale School of Drama, 2013

THE TWINS WOULD LIKE TO SAY (dir. Whitney Dibo & Lauren Dubowski), Yale Cabaret, 2013

HIT THE WALL* (by Ike Holter, dir. Eric Hoff), Steppenwolf's Garage Repertory Series, 2012

OBLIVION* (by Carly Mensch, dir. Matt Miller), Steppenwolf’s First Look Repertory of New Work, 2011

LOOM* (by Ike Holter, dir. Dav Yendler), The Inconvenience’s Fresh Meat Reading Series, 2011

HURRAH FOR THE NEXT WHO DIES* (by Mark Mason, dir. Damon Kiely), The Athenaeum, The Theatre School at DePaul, 2008

THE SPARROW* (Conceived by Nathan Allen with words by Chris Mathews and Jake Minton), The House Theatre of Chicago & Steppenwolf Garage, 2007

HAMLET (dir. Lisa Portes), Merle Reskin Theater, The Theatre School at DePaul, 2007

THE TRIAL (dir. Dexter Bullard), Merle Reskin Theater, The Theatre School at DePaul, 2006

THE BFG (dir. Ernie Nolan), Chicago Playworks for Families and Young Audiences, 2006

 

D I R E C T I N G                 

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COME BACK RICHARD SIMMONS* (conceived with and written by Emily Zemba), Ars Nova’s ANT Fest, 2017

WE KNOW EDIE LA MINX HAD A GUN* (written with Helen Jaksch and Emily Zemba), Brooklyn's Standard Toykraft, The Party Line, 2016

ROSE AND THE RIME (by Nathan Allen, Chris Mathews, Jake Minton), Yale Cabaret, 2014

WE KNOW EDIE LA MINX HAD A GUN* (written with Helen Jaksch and Emily Zemba), Yale Cabaret, 2013

VIGILANTE* (by Ike Holter), Collaboraction's Sketchbook XII, Chicago, 2012

KURT VONNEGUT’S 2BRØ2B* (co-adaptor with Ike Holter) City Lit Art of Adaptation Festival, Chicago, 2011

CHICAGOLAND THE MUSICAL* (by Ike Holter), Chopin Theatre, The Inconvenience, Chicago, 2010

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Assistant Directing:

ANGELS IN AMERICA: PARTS 1 AND 2 (by Tony Kushner, dir. Charles Newell), Court Theatre, Chicago, 2012

ODRADEK* (by Brett Nevue, dir. Dexter Bullard), The House Theatre of Chicago, 2010

GIRLS VS. BOYS* (by Nathan Allen, Chris Mathews, Jake Minton, dir. Nathan Allen), The House Theatre of Chicago, 2010

HATFIELD AND McCOY* (by Shawn Pfautsch, dir. Matthew Hawkins), The House Theatre of Chicago, 2007

 

                                                                             *world premiere

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