I returned to Crowded Fire to direct Alice Birch’s Revolt. She Said. Revolt Again. for the twentieth anniversary season.
I directed Euripedes’ Electra at Ten Thousand Things in Minneapolis. The show toured community centers and prisons around the state, as well as playing to the public in Minneapolis.
Cornerstone Theater Company developed a new play with and about the community of Venice Beach. I worked with ensemble playwright Juliette Carrillo and a cast of 40+ community members aged 6-82 to create this original musical. We performed the rich history of the neighborhood for overflow crowds outside the Oakwood Community Center.
I directed Shakespeare's Tempest at California Shakespeare Theater. The production toured to a women's prison, homeless shelters, senior centers, and rehab facilities as well as playing for the public at the Oakland Museum of California. The tour used the Ten Thousand Things model of connecting to non-traditional audiences.
I worked with playwright Dan Wolf on a 2-year story collection process in Berkeley. I directed the resulting play, exploring Berkeley 50 years after the iconic Free Speech movement, at Shotgun Players.
I directed Erik Ehn's Dogsbody in San Francisco at Intersection for the Arts and in New York at La Mama, as part of Ehn's 19-play Soulographie cycle. Soulographie explores genocide in Africa, Central American, Bosnia, and the US. Dogsbody is set in Uganda and in a fictional future Texas. As part of that project, we also interviewed Eritrean refugees in the Bay Area and included their stories as letters to the audience
Photos from some of my favorite world premiere Crowded Fire productions including Christine Evans' Slow Falling Bird, Liz Duffy Adams' One Big Lie, and Erik Ehn's 'Maid.