Developed in partnership with the Code Green Campaign, this production explores trauma and mental health struggles in prehospital emergency medical providers. First responders working in Emergency Medical Services are ten times more likely to contemplate suicide than the national average, and the most common reason responders leave the field is burnout. This devised performance will incorporate experiences of first responders struggling with and finding paths through trauma. The piece will draw on interviews, anonymous stories collected by Code Green, and art by EMS workers to weave stories of shared trauma, pride and resilience.
Counting Pebbles was granted a workshop residency at CoHo Productions as part of CoHo's Summer Workshop Lab in August of 2016, and was performed in full for the first time at the Yale Cabaret in March 2019. Moving forward, this project hopes to tour to the field, bringing the performance to the rural EMS providers who are its inspiration and target audience.
Counting Pebbles was granted a workshop residency at CoHo Productions as part of CoHo's Summer Workshop Lab in August of 2016, and was performed in full for the first time at the Yale Cabaret in March 2019. Moving forward, this project hopes to tour to the field, bringing the performance to the rural EMS providers who are its inspiration and target audience.
The Rewilding Cycle
A trilogy of devised work by Open Flame Theatre
Collaborating Artist
Summer 2016, Summer 2020
This series of devised pieces by Open Flame Theatre, formerly Children of the Wild, is an exploration of humanity's destruction of the Earth through the lens of Dante's Divine Comedy. After a multi-year devising process, the first performance, The Wastelands, toured through major cities around the Great Lakes for five months over the summer of 2016. The Garden, the second in the series, will premier in June 2020 in Minneapolis, MN. Collaborations have included early dramaturgy of the series, lighting design for The Garden, and assistant direction for the first two performances. Open Flame was the first resident company at Double Edge Theater in Western Massachusetts. The Wastelands drew inspiration from the training of Double Edge Theater, the photography of Robert Parke-Harrison, the steampunk aesthetic, and the ecological devastation surrounding us. More information at https://openflametheatre.org/
Exclusion Zone: The Vermont Yankee Reactor
(working title)
Director and Co-creater
Dates TBD
Southern Vermont and New Hampshire and Northern Western Massachusetts live in the shadow of the controversial history of Vermont Yankee, a nuclear reactor that shut down in 2014. This reactor supplied jobs and income to numerous residents of the area, but also contributed to environmental decay and safety fears on the part of many nearby residents.
The debate over the reactor's legitimacy and safety has become one of the most divisive issues in this region, leading to protests, mass arrests, graffiti-covered buildings and front yards filled with signs arguing one position or the other. This upcoming project will attempt to create a community dialogue about the significance of Vermont Yankee's closing. Using interviews with residents for and against the reactor, the project hopes to create a clearer picture of its affect on the region than either side might paint on its own. Ultimately, it hopes to explore the needs Vermont Yankee filled and failed to fill in this area, the gaps it leaves behind, and possibilities for healing the rift its presence has created in this community.
The debate over the reactor's legitimacy and safety has become one of the most divisive issues in this region, leading to protests, mass arrests, graffiti-covered buildings and front yards filled with signs arguing one position or the other. This upcoming project will attempt to create a community dialogue about the significance of Vermont Yankee's closing. Using interviews with residents for and against the reactor, the project hopes to create a clearer picture of its affect on the region than either side might paint on its own. Ultimately, it hopes to explore the needs Vermont Yankee filled and failed to fill in this area, the gaps it leaves behind, and possibilities for healing the rift its presence has created in this community.