ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
California Repertory Company (Cal Rep), 2016-2020
Tearing the Mask, NIDA, Sydney, 2014
California Repertory Company (Cal Rep), 2016-2020
- Direct one production per year
- Curate, produce and oversee our annual season of 8 shows – featuring a mix of classics, contemporary plays, musicals and devised work
- Created a new program, Devising Democracy: committed to devising theatre productions addressing urgent social-political issues of our time. Last year we produced Dreamers: Aquí y Allá a verbatim piece about DACA students on campus featured on TV (Univision, Telemundo and CNN en Español); voted “Best Play of 2018” by OC Weekly. This spring I am devising a piece based on interviews I am doing with members of Rising Scholars, a campus group of formerly incarcerated students
- Other shows I have curated for Cal Rep: verbatim theatre piece Dear Harvey about the life and legacy of Harvey Milk; the World Premiere of Tahirih Moeller’s A Live Mixtape which won 2nd place in the “Hip Hop Theatre Creator Award” at the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival; and the West Coast premiere of Hilary Bettis’ play The Ghosts of Lote Bravo, set in Juarez, Mexico, dealing with issues of violence against women and immigration
Tearing the Mask, NIDA, Sydney, 2014
- Initiated, organized and curated a unique week-long series of free public events at NIDA
- An exploration of Japanese performance via films, panels, lectures and performances, with butoh and noh experts from Japan
ASSOCIATE ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
& ARTISTIC ASSOCIATE Classic Stage Company (CSC), NYC, 2004-2008
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CO-DIRECTOR/CO-FOUNDER
New York Butoh Festival, NYC, 2003-2007
PRODUCER: SYMPOSIUM/EXHIBITION
Bobst Library, New York University, NY, 2003
New York Butoh Festival, NYC, 2003-2007
- Created and organized biennial festival showcasing over 50 international butoh artists
- Curated season and brought emerging and established artists from Japan, Germany, France, Colombia, Mexico, Canada, San Francisco and New York
- Oversaw three sold-out festivals (in 2003, 2005 and 2007) and their complex matrix of events – performances, workshops, films and lectures – that were attended by over 3,000 people
- Produced workshops/performances at some of the major theatre venues and educational organizations in New York: CUNY, Japan Society, Noguchi Museum, NYU, Theater for the New City
PRODUCER: SYMPOSIUM/EXHIBITION
Bobst Library, New York University, NY, 2003
- Associate-produced Visions for a Changing Theatre, month-long exhibition on experimental theatre from 1960s-1990s
- Curated and coordinated symposium involving: Richard Schechner, Lee Breuer, Judith Malina, Joseph Melillo, Steve Buscemi