By Philip Dawkins

Abdington Theatre Company.

Directed by Tony Speciale, Lighting by Zach Blane, Costumes by Hunter Kaczorowski, Sound Design & Original Music by Christian Frederickson.

ArtPrize International Art Festival 2023 Entry in Grand Rapids, MI. Created by Sara Walsh, Michael Rau and Derek VanHeel (SRAU). Performed by Sara Walsh.

Voted Top 5 in Time-Based Art category

Memory Room 302 is a three part time-based art piece.

by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins. Directed by Michael Rau. Costume Design by Becky Bodurtha. Lights by Tony Shayne. At Stanford University.

by Kate Benson*. New Georges with Women's Project at City Center Stage II.   Directed by Lee Sunday Evans*. Lighting by Barbara Samuels. Clothing by Kathleen Doyle.  Sound by Brandon Wolcott. (* OBIE Award Winners!)

Photos by Heather Phelps-Lipton

By Liza Birkenmeier

Best Theater of 2021 - The New York Times

Theater in Quarantine is a digital performance venue created inside my converted closet, dimensions 4X8X2. Directed by Joshua William Gelb. Choreographed and Associate Directed by Katie Rose McLaughlin. Sound Design by M. Florian Staab. Visual Design by Sara C Walsh. Video Design by Joshua William Gelb. TiQ Creative Producer, Morgan Lindsey Tachco. MiQ Software Created by Alex Hawthorn. Social Media by Brian Bose. “Complicated” Cover by Brody Bett

By Lila Rose Kaplan

At Geva Theatre in Rochester, NY

Directed by Shelley Butler. Lightng by Seth Reiser. Costumes by Lex Liang. With Sound Designer Kate Marvin and Magic & Illusion Designer Michael Weber.

(Also known as the name) Created and danced by Pele Bauch, with Jessie Winograd and Eva Burgess. Lighting by Philip Sandstrom. Performed at La Mama with Marina Celander’s Stone She: Space Edition.

Written by Christina Masciotti.  Directed by Paul Lazar.  

Produced by the Bushwick Starr and terraNOVA Collective.  Lighting Design: Simon Harding.  Costume Design: Jacob A. Climer.  Sound Design: Ben Williams
 

Photos by Maria Baranova and T. Ryder Smith

By Brenda Withers. Directed by Jess Chayes. At Northern Stage in Vermont. Lights by Isabella Byrd. Video by Alek Deva. Sound by Asa Wember.

Produced by Playwrights Realm’s Beyond the Realm Festival.

Written by Michael Yates Crowley

Directed by Michael Rau

Scenic and Costume design by Sara C Walsh

Audio / Video Design by Asa Wember

Produced by Actors Theatre of Louisville as part of the Humana Festival of New Plays. Directed by Michael Rau. Written by Michael Yates Crowley. Sound and Video by Asa Wember. Scenography and Space Dramaturgy by Sara C Walsh.

“Join our inaugural Zoom meeting and participate in neighborhood decisions in this funny, thought-provoking look at what makes a community, and what breaks it.”

At the Chocolate Factory. Choreography, direction, and performance: Anna Sperber. Music and performance: Gelsey Bell. Lighting design: Elliott Cennetoglu. Styling: Lydia Okrent.

Photos by Brian Rogers

by Michael Crowley. Directed by Michael Rau. Designed by Asa Wember. Set by Sara C Walsh. In this immersive experience, Sarah Jane Tully, a 53-year-old actuary, is taking her first vacation in years, and you’ve been hired to cover for her. TEMPING, the strange and comic tale of an employee’s inner life, is performed for an audience of one by a Windows PC, a corporate phone, a laser printer, and the Microsoft Office Suite. Photos by Asa Wember of the Edinburgh Fringe set up, produced by Dutch Kills Theatre

by Anne Carson.  Directed by Mark Cryer for Hamilton College.  Lighting by Derek Van Heel.  Video by Jeff Larson.  Costumes by Amy Petta. 

Photos by Jeff Larson and Derek Van Heel

Esperanza Spalding's Emily's D+Evolution.  Designed and co-directed with Esperanza.  Costumes by Diego Montoya. 

Broadway storytelling meets immersive spectacle in this innovative house party musical by Kerrigan & Lowdermilk. Produced by Evan Bernardin, Zach Zamchick, Phoebe Dunn, and Matthew Hui.

The Bad Years workshop production. Directed by Stephen Brackett. Choreographed by Jennifer Jancuska​. Lights by Jamie Roderick. See thebadyears.com for complete cast and crew.

Written and Directed by: Eric John Meyer and Jean Ann Douglass

Performers: Ben Beckley, Laura Campbell, Anne Gridley, David Skeist

Scenic and Costume Design: Sara C. Walsh

Lighting Design: Simon Harding

Sound Design: Chris Chappell

An immersive dance-theatre staging of the classic ballet that uses Tchaikovsky's music to depict the life-story of a woman (and dancer) named Clara. Performed in the cavernous Knockdown Center, Clara’s childhood, young adulthood, middle and old age appear simultaneously atop four different stages accompanied by live musicians.

Presented by JV Squad and Designated Movement in association with the Knockdown Center and Sprung Wood Solutions.  Directed by Joshua William Gelb. Choreography by Katie Rose McLaughlin. Music Arrangements by Ian Axness. Lighting Design by Josh Smith. Sound Design by Gavin Price. Costume Design by Diego Montoya.

Photos as indicated by Maria Baranova.  

By Liba Vaynberg & Emily Louise Perkins.

Directed by Inés Braun. Lighting by Cha See, Costumes by Dina El-Aziz, Sound by Asa Wember

Photos by Matthew Dunivan

by Arnold Wesker

directed by Geoff Sobelle at Bard College.

An enormous undertaking with  cast of 27 students running  a commercial kitchen that runs the 70 foot length of the theatre.  With Chris Giarmo on sound, Eric Southern doing lights and clothes by Oana Botez. 

Choreographer - Anna Sperber
Lighting design - Elliott Jenetopulos
Music - Ryan Sawyer
Costume Design and Fabrication - Christian Joy

Performers - Rebecca Breheney, Lizzie Feidelson, Michael Ingle, Jasmine Jawato, Emma Judkins, and Tara Willis
 

For Prize we created architecture that could be invisible.  a gently shifting forest.  

In the world premiere of Prize, a wild, natural and driving kinetic power emerges. The dancers navigate a psychologically viscous space within, outside, and between one another. The force of the piece contracts and expands from a centrifugal group power and from solos that emerge from these highly organized crystalline formations.  In each solo, the dancer’s distinct approach to energy resonates as a powerful statement; some assertion of self - as though the dancer left a small trace of him or herself behind in the space.  At times with a startling and singular quietness and focus, while others are wild and unhinged with an essential agitation that bubbles beneath the surface of the work, and exploding it in a moment of fracture.

Written by Barbara Weichmann.  A student production at Whitman College in Walla Walla Washington, directed by Kristen Kosmas with sound design by Evan Mosher.  Lighting Design by Everett Wild, Costumes by Robin Smasne

A 2012 production, premiered at The Kitchen in NY, subsequently toured to UCLA, Institute of Contemporary Art Boston, the Wexner Center, OH among others. Choreographed by Faye Driscoll and created by Faye and Jesse Zaritt. Lighting by Amanda K Ringger. Sound by Chris Giarmo.

Directed by Jeff Larson.  Photos from the touring version of Get Mad at Sin! done in a revival tent. Examples include San Diego Museum of Art, Fusebox Festival in Austin TX and TBA festival in Portland, OR.

Milka Djordjevich + Chris Peck.  Lights by Madeline Best.

A Michael Rau and Michael Yates Crowley extravaganza. Wolf 359 at IRT. Costumes by Valerie Bart. Lights by Derek Wright. Also remounted at Joe's Pub.

By Franz Xaver Kroetz

Directed by Sam Stonefield at Bard College. Lighting by Gina Scherr.

Nellie Tinder at the Brick

By Julia May Jonas; directed by Jess Barbagallo and Julia May Jonas.  Assistant directed by Marisa Lark Wallin.  Songs by Heather Christian.  Costumes by Wendy Yang Bailey.  Lights by Sarah Bruning Johnston

I was the Head of Design for Queen of the Night at the Diamond Horseshoe, an immersive circus/nightclub/food extravaganza. Created by Randy Weiner, directed by Christine Jones, set design by Douglas Little, interior design by Meg Sharpe, lighting design by Austin R Smith. Other collaborators include Giovanna Battaglia, Jennifer Rubell, Lorin Latarro, Steve Cuiffo and Shana Carroll.

Inspired by Herman Melville, written by Paul Cohen

A Woodshed Collective production aboard the Lilac, a 1920s lighthouse tender docked in the Hudson River. Directed by Michael Silverstone, Lauren Keating and Stephen Brackett. Scenic Design in collaboration with Gabriel H. Evansohn & Daniel Zimmerman. Lighting by Zack Brown. Clothing by Jessica Pabst.

William Shakespeare. At Classic Stage Company. Co-design with Amanda Rehbein.  Directed by Jimmy Maize. Lighting, Projections and Photos by David Bengali.

Composed by Johann Strauss II

German libretto by Karl Haffner and Richard Genée.

Production at NYU's Steinhardt School. Directed by Michael Rau. Costumes by Valerie Bart. Lighting by Derek Wright

Music by Marc Shaiman

Lyrics by Scott Wittman and Shaiman

Book by Mark O'Donnell and Thomas Meehan

A Summer Repertory production in Santa Rosa, CA. Directed by James Newman. Lighting by Samantha Treible.

by Anton Dudley. At Stella Adler Studios. Directed by Stephen Brackett. With Costumes by Jessica Pabst and Lights by Eric Southern.

at Dance Theatre Workshop. Choreographed by Faye Driscoll and created by Faye in collaboration with the performers. Lighting by Amanda K. Ringger. Clothes by Machine Dazzle. Sound by Brandon Wolcott. Photos by Yi-Chun Wu.

A physical reenactment of an auditory experience by Jimmy Swaggart.  At the Chocolate Factory. Directed by Jeff Larson, starring Andrew Dinwiddie.  Lighting by Chloe Z. Brown.  Sound by Jon Moniaci.  

By Johannes Brahms

An NYU Steinhardt School production at the Provincetown Playhouse. Devised and directed by Michael Rau. Lighting by Derek Wright. Clothing by Valerie Bart.

By Eric John Meyer

At The Brick theatre in Brooklyn, NY. Directed by Jess Chayes. Lighting by Derek Wright. Remounted at the 4th St. Theatre.

By August Wilson

A production at New York University directed by Benny Sato Ambush. Lighting by Zack Brown. Clothing by Jenifer Nweke.

At the Chocolate Factory. Choreographed by Pele Bauch. Lighting Design by Vinnie Vigilante. Sound by Mike Rugnetta. Set and Costumes by SCW.

by William Shakespeare

A production at the Juilliard School directed by Ralph Zito. Lighting by Betsy Adams. Clothing by Annie Kennedy. Produced in rep with Merchant of Venice.

Choreographed by Faye Driscoll and created by Faye in collaboration with the dancers: Michael Helland, Celia Rowlson-Hall and Nikki Zialcita. New York Dance and Performance Award ("Bessie") Winner. Named "one of the top 5 dance shows of 2008" by the New York Times. Performed first at HERE Arts Center, 2009. Photos by Steven Schreiber.

Directed by Craig Latrell. Lights by Derek VanHeel, Video by Jeff Larson.