Directing
Theater and film offer a precious opportunity to be with what is, and reframe a conversation towards a brighter vision for our collective future. I partner with visionary writers to explore stories that are buried in our bodies and bring underrepresented narratives to life.
I view my role as a director as an instigator of inquiry. I work most often in non-traditional creative processes and thrive off creating new practices of caring collaboration.
I generate and direct work with my company, Exploding Knot, that explores paradigms of power. I also collaborate with artists and companies on productions that fearlessly engage in new artistic forms and necessary conversations.
Selections of directing work-
a transporting experience where a concert becomes a mass, and a mass becomes a séance
by Heather Christian
Stage Director for the film adaptation produced by Woolly Mammoth, American Conservatory Theater, and the Bushwick Starr in association with Madeline Foster Berskin, Matt Ross and Outskirt Media
Co/Directed with Mark Rosenblatt at The Bushwick Starr
a collection of tiny plays that stretches the concept of blackness from the political to sublime
by Daaimah Mubashir
I directed the selections The Parrot Play and Unnamed Superhero Woman
at JACK
→ you can read Daaimah’s published series, The Immeasurable Want of Light, here.
five women from across the world converge and connect in a yoga studio in Beirut
Heart and Soul Yoga Studio Beirut
by Olivia Clement
at the Corkscrew Theater Festival
a wry and absurdly humorous new play exploring, self-hatred and sexual liberation
Delicious Filth: Grindr Play #3
by Brett Solomon Evans
at The Brick
a new play exploring white privilege
by Young Jean Lee.
Associate Director at The Public Theater, national and international tours
Straight White Men was produced on Broadway in 2018.
Interested in collaborating? Drop me a line.
