Directing / Choreography
In addition to acting, I direct and choreograph select projects that center physical storytelling, ensemble collaboration, and inventive theatricality.
I make work that tells stories through movement, image, music, and text. Whether directing, choreographing, or devising, I’m drawn to collaboration: working closely with performers, designers, and writers to build theatrical worlds that are visually specific, physically alive, and emotionally resonant.
I’m drawn to heightened form and style, partially because it gives me pleasure, but also because of the way it amplifies feelings, meaning, and mystery. While most of the work I have helmed has been multidisciplinary, I’m also interested in bringing the same sense of rigor and daring to text-driven plays.
A film about a Chinese American playwright coping with isolation during quarantine by trying to become a playwriting influencer on social media. When she starts exploiting some salacious family history in her attempt to write a Pulitzer Prize-winning play, her ancestors start showing up to set the record straight through song and dance numbers, music videos, and vaudeville acts.
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photo by Ben Krantz
A semi-immersive staging of Dave Malloy’s epic sung-through musical based on a small section of War and Peace. The production moved fluidly from a raucous party to eerie intimacy to moments of high adventure and collective hope. While the story centers on Natasha and Pierre, the approach embraced the full inner lives of all the characters, treating each as the protagonist of their own story within a shared, shifting world.
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photo by Kegan Marling
A physical theater play with live music inspired by Nathaniel Hawthorne’s short story. The piece investigates time, place, truth, and the bonds of love.
Founder / Artistic Director
In my 18 years running a scrappy dance theater company, I created 30+ dance and dance-theater works. These are some favorites. More work samples can be found on my vimeo channel
Lydia Daniller
A quartet tracing two queer relationships across time, unseasonable weather, and emotional change, blending lush choreography with poetic text by Brian Thorstenson.
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photo by Pak Han
A playful exploration of non-human primates and prayer as contrasting ways of understanding what it means to be human.
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photo by Jeff Crook
An intimate dance-theater event riffing on the themes and images in A Streetcar Named Desire. Framed by a game of chance, each performance is shaped by a round of Hearts that determines which scenes appear.
A site-specific performance in a Victorian flat, that makes the audience into voyeurs spying on intimate domestic scenes performed by a cast of dancers and singer-songwriters. We later made a film version called "Domestic Animals".
A short no-budget film created for Shotgun Players’ quarantine-era 30th anniversary, inspired by the experience of performing in The Forest War, the first play done with Shotgun Players.
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A short film made in collaboration with Brian Thorstenson in 48 hours for Shotgun Players’ 2 Minutes in 2 Days project.
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