About

I am a theater maker at large, working independently and in collaboration. My practice spans performance, video, puppetry, and installation. My projects stem from investigations of place and travel, the body, and global exchanges of goods, culture, and value as experienced through late-stage capitalism, with a strong and rigorous foundation in research. I am a core ensemble member of the Detroit-based theater company A Host of People.

 

 

 

 

 

 

photo by Antoinette Brock

photo by Antoinette Brock

CV

EDUCATION

  • Central Saint Martins University of the Arts London, MA Performance Design and Practice Fall 2012- Spring 2014

  • University of Pennsylvania, BA Visual Studies, Art Practice and Technology, Fall 2007-Spring 2011

  • Railway Stories, Bauhaus Summer School, Bauhaus University Weimar, Summer 2022

  • Punchdrunk Design Master Class, 2014

TEACHING

  • Opera Story Tellers teaching artist, Santa Fe, NM, Jun. 20-31 2020

RESIDENCIES

  • Artist in residence at Ox-Bow Goes to Hell, Ox-Bow School of Art, Saugatuck MI, Oct. 25-31, 2021

  • Artist in residence at 6 Stone Art Space, Taipei, Taiwan, Nov. 4-Dec. 4 2019

  • Artist in residence as part of A Host of People, Test Flight residency at Cleveland Public Theatre, Cleveland, OH, Mar. 31-Apr. 6, 2019

  • Artist in residence at 3331 Arts Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan, Feb.- Apr. 2018

  • Artist in residence as part of A Host of People, Ko Festival of Performance, Amherst, MA, Jul. 2017

  • Artist in residence as part of A Host of People, Test Flight residency at Cleveland Public Theatre, Cleveland, OH, Mar. 26- Apr. 1, 2017

  • Artist in residence at Elsewhere, Greensboro, NC, Feb. 2017

  • Artist in residence as part of A Host of People, North American Cultural Lab, Highland Lake, NY, Sept. 2016

  • Artist in residence as part of Imitating The Dog at Inteatro, Polverigi, Italy, Sept.-Oct. 2015

  • Artist in residence at Arquetopia, Oaxaca City, Mexico, Oct.-Nov. 2014

  • Resident as part of Mapped Productions at Inteatro, Polverigi, Italy, Mar. 2014, Apr. 2016

  • Artist in Residence at Takt Kunstprojektraum, Berlin, Germany, Apr.-Jun. 2012

EXHIBITIONS

  • The Architecture of Travel, Group Exhibition, Weimar Hauptbahnhof, Weimar, Germany, Aug. 2022

  • 12 New Mexico Artists to Know Now, Group Exhibition, Southwest Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM, Mar. 1 – Apr. 27 2019

  • Tomb, Group Exhibition, Arquetopia Artist Residency and 411 Espacio/Fotográphico, Oaxaca, Mexico, Oct. 30-Nov. 2 2014

  • Zu Mir Oder Zu Dir, Group Exhibition, Takt Kunstprojektraum Artist Residency Exhibition, Berlin Germany, Jun. 16-28, 2012

  • NY Art Marathon Finalist, New York, NY, Summer 2011

PRODUCTIONS AND VIDEO WORK

  • Art Director- Big Exit (music video) for Saajtak, 2021

  • Creator and Performer- This Is How The World Will End (video), Detroit Puppet Slam live stream, Apr. 25, 2020

  • Writer, Director, Designer, and Performer- Empty Orchestra (video), Xperimental Puppetry Theater Festival, Center for Puppetry Arts, Atlanta, GA, May 16-19, 2019

  • Writer, Director, Designer, and Performer- Yokomeshi: A Meal Eaten Sideways, TPAM Fringe Festival, Tokyo, Japan, Feb. 15-16, 2019, Performance Potluck and Punch, Detroit MI, Feb. 2019, CCA Cinematheque, Santa Fe, NM, Nov. 15-16, 2018, Network of Ensemble Theaters National Gathering and Symposium, Tempe AZ, Nov. 1st, 2018, 3331 Arts Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan, Apr. 27 2018

  • Writer, Director, Costume and Set Design- The Institute of Anti-Entropic Anomaly, Light Box, Detroit MI, Aug. 2016

  • Dramatrugy and Costume Design- Mapped Productions’ Homo Sacer, Polverigi and Caos Turin, Italy, Spring 2016

  • Concept, Writer, Dramatury, Costume and Prop Design- Mapped Productions’ Nova Insula, Mole Vanvitelliana, INTEATRO Festival 2015, Ancona, Italy, Jul. 2015

  • Concept, Dramaturg, Costume and Prop Design- Mapped Productions’ NaCl(Salt), Villa Nappi, INTEATRO Festival 2014, Polverigi, Italy, Jul. 2014

  • Writer, Director, Costume, Prop, Puppet, and Production Design- Katabasis, Studio Theatre, Central Saint Martins, London, UK, Spring 2014

  • Writer, Director, and Production Design- Necrocartography: An Introduction, Central Saint Martins, London UK, Winter 2014

  • Concept, Dramatury, and Costume Design- Mapped Productions’ Runner, Piraeus, Greece, Spring 2014

  • Concept, Dramaturgy, and Costume Design- Mapped Productions’ (Uns)table, Rabbit Hole Theater and Embros Theater, Athens Greece, Platform Theater, London UK, Spring 2013

DESIGN

  • Set, Costume, and Prop Design- A Host of People’s Fire in The Theater!, Nov.-Dec. 2022

  • Set Decoration and Prop Design- Seafoam Palace’s Falling Sideways, Lange Nacht der Museen, AEG Tunnel, Berlin, Germany, Aug. 27th 2022, New Braunfels, Texas, Feb. 2022

  • Second Creature Assistant- Friends Forever, feature film, 2022

  • Production Designer- Dead River, feature film, 2022

  • Set, Costume and Prop Design- A Host of People’s Kilo Batra, Arab American National Museum, Dearborn, MI, Nov. 2021

  • Set, Costume, and Prop Design- A Host of People’s Cleopatra Boy, Andy, Detroit MI, Sept. 13-28 2019, Cleveland Public Theater Test Flight Series, Apr. 4-6, 2019, Fool’s Fury Festival, San Francisco, CA, Jul. 17th and 19th 2018

  • Costume and Set Design- A Host of People’s Neither There Nor Here, Cleveland Public Theater Test Flight Series, Cleveland, OH, Mar. 27-Apr. 1

  • Costume and Set Design- A Host of People’s The Golden Record, The Re-Release Party, The Jam Handy, Detroit, MI, Nov. 4-19, 2016, Links Hall, Chicago IL Apr. 28, 29, 30, 2017, Catapult, New Orleans, LA, May 5 and 6, 2017

  • Costume Design- Seafoam Palace’s Islands of the Hollow Earth, Totems Riverfront Arts Festival, Aug. 5th, 2016

  • Costume and Puppet Design- Agua de Luna (Psalms for the Rouge), Matrix Theatre Company, Detroit, MI, Feb. 26-Mar. 20, 2016

  • Costume and Prop Design- Imitating The Dog’s The Train, Marche Teatro, Ancona, Italy, Sept.- Oct. 2015

  • Costume Design- A Host of People’s The Harrowing– Detroit, MI, Aug.-Sept. 2015

  • Costume Design- Aliki Kylika’s Pre-Bard//Post-Shard, Summer 2014, London Festival of  Architecture, Somerset House, London UK

  • Costume Design- Marco Turcich’s Histria, Spring/Summer 2014, Platform Theater, London UK

  • Costume Design Assistant- Geraldine Pilgrim’s Toynbee, Artsadmin and Toynbee Studios, Winter 2013, London UK

  • Costume Design [film]- Scott Lyman’s Swimming Pool Libraries, Fall 2013, London UK

  • Props Design- Boxstep Productions’ Death Ship 666, Summer 2013-Winter 2014, Leicester Square Theater, The Courtyard Theater, Jermyn Street Theater, London and Edinburgh Free Fringe, Edinburgh UK

  • Costume Design- Nayantara Kotian’s The George and Hazel Show, Battersea Arts Center Freshly Scratched Festival, June 1st 2013, London UK

GRANTS AND PRIZES

  • Finalist for SPREAD 7.0, SITE Santa Fe, spring/summer 2021

  • Recipient of grant from Xperimental Puppetry Theater Festival for production of Empty Orchestra (puppet film), Feb.-May 2019

  • Selected for 12 New Mexico Artists to Know Now, by The Magazine, Feb.-Mar. 2019 issue

  • Recipient of the Michigan Council for the Arts Young Leader: Retention and Engagement Grant for Re-Release Party: The Golden Record with A Host of People, 2016

  • Recipient of the Charles Willson Peal Prize for Visual Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, 2011

  • Mary L. and Matthew S. Santirocco College Alumni Society Undergraduate Research Grant, 2011

  • NY Art Marathon Finalist, 2011