Previous Work
Previous Work
Selected list. Click here to download the full theatrical resume.
Previous Work
Selected list. Click here to download the full theatrical resume.
Selected list. Click here to download the full theatrical resume.
Selected list. Click here to download the full theatrical resume.
2021
Lead Producer. Stage 42, NYC
Trevor is the story of an 8th grade boy in 1981 who has to face a world who will not accept who he is. Inspired by the film that went on to create the Trevor Project, the nation’s only accredited crisis intervention and suicide prevention organization focused on saving young LGBTQ lives.
2020
Producer and Artistic Director
Pao Art Center, Chinatown, Boston
Boston Foundation LAB Grant Recipient
A one-night devised theatrical performance using narrative, poetry, spoken word, music, somatic work, and dance investigating how women hold, heal, and transform trauma in our bodies and in the world.
We also explored intersections of race, class, gender, ancestry, and caste both in performance and in the rehearsal process.
2018
Choreographer and Performer.
Tiny and Short/Dance Complex Cambridge, MA.
Music by Peace Pilgrim.
A solo performance and feminist moving meditation. Created as part of the Tiny and Short series.
Photo by Olivia Blaisdel.
2017
Choreographer. ParadiseMoves Dance Co/CMAC
Choreography: Josie Bray
Music: Jesse Hanson, Crissy J., Adam Hanson & Barry J. Neely — with Shannon Sweeny Curran, Cassie Samuels and Rajita Menon with Matt Kyle, Alex Smith, and Alex Davis Alex Jimenez
New work in dance and movement told through unfolding relationships, dynamic connections, and liberation.
All Unfolding photos courtesy of Paradise Moves Dance company
2017
Creative Producer. Writers Theatre, Chicago
Winner of Chicago’s JEFF Award for excellence in Theatre: Best New Work
Trevor is the story of an 8th grade boy in 1981 who has to face a world who will not accept who he is. Inspired by the film that went on to create the Trevor Project, the nation’s only accredited crisis intervention and suicide prevention organization focused on saving young LGBTQ lives.
2017
Movement Coach (Director Scott Zigler). Emerson College, Boston
By Tony Kushner
The play is set in Germany in 1932 and 1933, and the events of the fall of the Weimar Republic and the rise to power of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party.
It tells of a group of Berlin artists and friends, with varying degrees of communist leanings, and of the changes in their lives as democracy falls and Adolph Hitler gains power.
2011
Director/Choreographer.
Lyric Stage Co of Boston
Book by Murray Horwitz and Richard Maltby Jr., and music by various composers and lyricists as arranged and orchestrated by Luther Henderson. It is named after the song by Fats Waller (with Harry Brooks and Andy Razaf), “Ain’t Misbehavin’.”
The musical is a tribute to the black musicians of the 1920s and 1930s who were part of the Harlem Renaissance, an era of growing creativity, cultural awareness, and pride.
2010
I birthed a child.
The best creation of my life.
2009
Assistant Director/Choreographer to Marcia Milgrom Dodge.
Neil Simon Theatre
Music by Stephen Flaherty, lyrics by Lynn Ahrens, and a book by Terrence McNally. It is based on the 1975 novel of the same name by E.L. Doctorow.
Set in the early 20th century, Ragtime tells the story of three groups in the city of New York: African Americans in Harlem, Upper-Class white suburbanites, and Eastern European Immigrants of the Lower East Side.
2008
Choreographer
(Director Jake Kruger)
By Larry Kunofsky
Presented by Four Chairs Theater
Theater Row: Lion Theater, 410 West 42nd St., NYC
2006
Choreographer
Co-Artistic Director with John Ambrosino
Boston Center for the Arts
Music by Alan Menken, lyrics and book by Howard Ashman. It is based on the 1960s film novel of the same name.
The story follows a hapless florist shop worker who raises a plant that feeds on human blood and flesh. This piece is usually produced with a life-sized plant puppet that eats the cast; John Ambrosino and I re-conceptualized the project to instead create the plant out of contemporary dancers. Each time a cast member got eaten by the plant, they became part of the plant.
2006
Choreographer
Co-Artistic Director with John Ambrosino
Boston Center for the Arts
Music by Mary Rogers, lyrics by Marshall Barer and book by Jay Thompson, Dean Fuller, and Marshall Barer. The play was written as an adaptation of the Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale "The Princess and the Pea."
The story is about a prince who needs to be married in order to inherit the kingdom, and a woman who shows up to the kingdom who must prove that she is a princess and worthy of royal marriage by proving her sensitivity. In the wake of gay-marriage being newly passed in Massachusetts (the first state in the US to do so) John Ambrosino and I re-conceptualized the project to instead cast the part of the princess as a man, created a floor painting that was a map of Boston, and worked with our scenic designer to create elements in support of gay marriage.
2005
Choreographer
Co-Artistic Director with John Ambrosino
Boston Center for the Arts
Music by Burt Bacharach, lyrics by Hal David and book by Neil Simon. The play was based on the film, The Apartment.
The story is about a junior executive at an insurance company in the 1960s who seeks to climb the corporate ladder by allowing his apartment to be used by his married superiors for trysts. As a concept, John Ambrosino and I worked with this project by popping the 1960s colors and dance styles, and over-emphasizing the time-period’s sexist corporate behavior.
2005
Choreographer
Co-Artistic Director with John Ambrosino
Boston Center for the Arts
Written by Ntozake Shange
for colored girls... tells the stories of seven women who have suffered oppression in a racist and sexist society. As a choreopoem, the piece is a series of 20 separate poems choreographed to music that weaves interconnected stories of love, empowerment, struggle and loss into a complex representation of sisterhood.
As a concept, John Ambrosino and I worked with a single white square on the floor of the space and a single white chair as a set piece. We collaborated with the actors to create movement and scene work that matched their cultural experience.
This piece was my first experience of what it meant to support and lift the voices of women of color in theatre. I made a lot of mistakes. I have so much gratitude to these women actors who taught me things about being a White person in a Black space, even when they didn't have to.
2002
Choreographer and Director
Co-produced with Barry Neely
Initial Versus was the first piece of theatre or dance that I produced outside of college; I was selected for a grant by Green Street Studios, a small modern dance studio in Cambridge, MA as part of their Emerging Artist Series. The series was for promising young artists, which provided producing and artistic mentorship to create an evening-length project.
Barry Neely created original music for the project. It was an ambitious undertaking; a 20-minute piece of original music and choreography with 7 dancers and 7 musicians.
