Last night I had the pleasure of directing yet another zoom reading of another play by Kirt Shineman for the Theater Artists Studio. 

In Whitewashed we discover how covering up the outer appearances never changes the inner truths. It is 1916, and the famous artist John Singer Sargent (played by Marc Comstock) is bored with painting portraits. Yet, his friend, Isabella Steward Gardner (played by Linda Peterson Warren), keeps lining up more portraits. At a dinner party, the President of the Boston Museum of Fine Art commissions John to paint the museum rotunda. He could, but he has no inspiration. Thomas McKeller (played by Alex Patrick), an uneducated Black hotel elevator operator, thrusts himself upon John to be his model. John hires Thomas. In secret John completes portraits of white men and women using a Black male model and goes on to create his final greatest work, the ceiling at the Museum of Fine Art, with White gods modeled on a Black man. All the while John is drawn to Thomas, they embark on a journey of love, but a journey they must never reveal.

​We had  a great response and I'm hopeful this is the first of many steps for this piece!

I'm so excited to get another chance to collaborate with Kirt Shineman after working on his play Good Grief last fall. I'm doing a reading of his new play Where They're Going When They Leave this Monday the 8th at 9pm EST.  You can join us on zoom here

.My latest Standby venture, Leonce and Lena, by George Buchner is out now! I wanted to continue to explore Buchner's work after tackling Woyzeck and this one was a lot of fun. It's a warped fairytale of a prince and princess that explores power, bureaucracy and free will. Episode one is available here

Lately I've been back on Nantucket working on White Heron's virtual gala presentation of our Nantucket Christmas Carol. The main event is an audioplay version of Nantucket Christmas Carol featuring Christopher Plummer, Judith Ivey, and Celia Keenan-Bolger among others. It's been great to be in a theater for the first time in a while creating an holiday intro video. Though the event has passed, the play is still available here.

It's been my pleasure over the last few months to be a part of creating and producing a new radio play podcast called Standby for Places. My co-creators and I were looking for a way to create over the course of the pandemic and this is what we came up with! 

New episodes come out every Wednesday on spotify, apple podcasts, and on our website here!  So far we've put out all of The Importance of Being Earnest, part of An Ideal Husband, and my directing debut on the pod, ​Woyzeck.
If you like what you hear, head over to our gofundme so we can continue to pay our actors, and like us on facebook to keep up to date on what's next!

I was so excited to get to be a part of Theater Breaking Through Barriers' third virtual playmakers intensive InUnion! After months of quarantine I was so glad to get to work with this randomly selected team. I feel like I really lucked out and I'm thrilled to share the final product, streamed live, here.

.So very excited for this next one! Directing a reading of Enrique Huilli's beautiful new play Is This a Graveyard. It's a little bit like if Beckett lived in 2020 and was concerned about the school to prison pipeline, police involved shootings, and systemic racism. Got your attention? It's being presented on Sunday the 19th at 3:00PM at the Tank. Tickets and more info available here.

Excited to announce my next project, helming Tom Block's fun and timely new short play Let's Pretend at the International Human Rights Arts Festival. As Amanda and Becca go from making modeling clay cows, to adopted daughters, to rifles, the extent of the horrors today's kids are exposed to becomes clear. We've got one performance on Sunday, December 15th @ 3:00pm at The Wild Project downtown. Tickets are available here!

Next up is a return to Nantucket to assist on the re-mounting of our version of A Christmas Carol. It's been great getting to return to this piece and discover new things with a (mostly) new group of actors. If last year is any indication it's gonna be a great show! We open on Thanksgiving for a run through the 14th. Tickets are available here should you be island bound!

I'm so excited to announce that Transfiguration is coming back for a second round at this year's New York Fringe Festival! We've made some technical improvements and smoothed out some things that were a little rushed last time and I can't wait to get another chance for people to see this show! There are only two performances this Friday, October 12th at 7:30 and Saturday, the 13th at 2:00 at the wonderful Metropolitan Playhouse downtown. Tickets are available here!