The Moors

Assistant direction and fight choreography

Produced by Dacha Theatre, directed by Mike Lion, winter 2020.

“The wind-swept moors are a bleak and vicious landscape, and their inhabitants are no less wild. Two sisters, an erratic maid, and a rather large mastiff strategize, scrub, and sigh in a labyrinthine Victorian mansion. The entrance of a governess and crash-landing of a moor-hen set all four on a strange trajectory, one step closer to the thrill and danger of being truly seen. Dacha Theatre, in association with Theatre Off Jackson, is proud to present the Pacific Northwest premiere of Jen Silverman’s dark comedy. This touching, violent, and relentlessly funny love letter to the life and work of the Brontë sisters will delight anyone who has curled up with a British novel, toured a haunted house, or giggled at an unlikely animal friendship.” (from the Dacha website)

Hear Here Walla Walla

Interviewer and co-creator

Co-created by the Whitman College Devised Theater course, the Walla Walla Immigrant Rights Coalition, and individuals in the Walla Walla community. Produced in tandem with Because You Are Here and based on the same interviews, fall of 2018. Booth tour hosted by the Walla Walla Immigrant Rights Coalition’s Art & Social Practice committee, funded by the Ben Rabinowitz Student Project Award in spring of 2019.

“HEAR HERE, Walla Walla is a phone line that seeks to map our community through stories from immigrant and first generation Walla Walla residents. HEAR HERE is comprised of excerpts from a series of community interviews, conducted and collected by Whitman College students and community members in the fall of 2018. We invite you pick up your phone and see what is on the line from and for our neighbors in Walla Walla. By pressing the numbers on your keypad you can navigate through the topics of Belonging, Exclusion, Courage, Invisibility, Change, Tradition, Legacy, Sunrise and the ultimate question: if you knew you would be heard, is there one last thing you would like to say.” (from the phone line’s website)

Video trailer here.

Beyond the Pond

Performance and co-creation

Co-created with Rose Heising and Chloe Hood.

A site-specific piece devised through Viewpoints, based on the poem “Heaven” by Rupert Brooke as a course final, spring of 2019.

Love Letters to the World as We Would Have It

Costume design and construction

Written and directed by River Low Spooner, produced by the Hayloft Players, spring of 2018.

A show centered around love, loss, queerness, natural disasters, and the impending doom of the world. Costume design for a four-actor ensemble, including an Earth-Ocean-Mother-Goddess (right-most image). Costume pieces were sourced from the local Goodwill and other thrift stores, then dyed, tailored, distressed, patched, and embroidered.

As You Like It

Direction

Independent student theatre production.

Staged in an outdoor amphitheater, this abridged production of As You Like It was rehearsed in two weeks at the end of the summer of 2017 as part of the Whitman College student-produced Shakespeare in the Park tradition.

Sun Flour Bakery in Bloom

Direction and Design

Independent student theatre production

Directorial debut. An original work by Tara Emerald McCulloch, workshopped in the Nancy Simon acting studio in spring of 2017.