Happy Fall!

The late summer and early/current fall have been full of development (despite them not being full of website updates)! Towards the end of August I had a residency at the beautiful Irondale to continue developing my play It’s in the Bag. It was fantastic to get to rework the play, which looks at the forgotten history of women who’ve run for president, more specifically within the landscape of the 2020 election. I re-teamed up with media designer SooA Kim and actors Lily Ganser and Roma Scarano, and I got to bring in actors Jimmy Brewer and John Ford Dunker. They all made magic happen.

Some magic thanks to SooA and Irondale’s architecture

Some magic thanks to Irondale’s shelf of mugs

I’ve also been continuing to develop my gerrymandering project, Packing and Cracking, following the success of its first showing through The Drama League’s First Stage Residency. My collaborator Joseph Amodei and I recently shared a selection of it through a Gerrymandering Series organized by Carnegie Mellon’s Libraries, and we’re working on sharing it across the northeast in Spring 2020—stay tuned!

I’ve also been gearing up to return to my alma mater and direct Caridad Svich’s beautiful play Town Hall at Columbia/Barnard’s undergraduate theater department in the beginning of next year. I’ve gotten a wonderful slate of designers to work with me; we’ve just started dreaming about the design and the ideas are already so exciting.

And I’ve been writing grants! Did you know I write grants? You can read all about that here.