performance archive

spectacle & extravaganza
  • Annual Purimshpil Extravaganzas, collaboratively created spectacle performances embedded in giant parties, devised by the Aftselakhis Spectacle Committee (founding collective member, lead designer, builder, performer, co-producer, &c), 2006-2020
  • Bobe Mayses: Yiddish Knights & Other Impossibilities, collaborative spectacle performance, created and directed by Jenny Romaine for Yiddish Summer Weimar (designer, spectacle engineer, political dramaturg, performer), 2016
  • A Hemispheric Cabaret, collaborative spectacle performance, created and directed by Jenny Romaine for KlezKanada (designer, spectacle engineer, ensemble co-coordinator, performer), 2012
  • The Sukkos Mob, collaborative street performance, created & directed by Jenny Romaine (performer, builder), 2006-2011
  • The Artist Is Absent, day-long event reperforming 16 works by Marina Abramović (instigator, co-curator [with Ariel Speedwagon Federow & Quito Ziegler], production designer, performer), 2010
  • Critical HAiR, collaborative participatory musical theater production (co-instigator, co-designer, co-adaptor, co-producer, performer), 2008

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cantastoria / bankelsang / pardeh
  • abolition pardeh for Brown and Tubman, solo Persian-style cantastoria (designer, director, performer), 2014/2017/2020
  • a classical education, solo cantastoria with text by Anna Margolin and images by Lorena Böttner (designer, director, performer), 2018
  • Underfoot, solo cantastoria with songs by Marc Blitzstein (director, designer, performer), 2012-2013

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dance & movement
  • the dances are for us, collaboratively developed dance production, choreographed by Hadar Ahuvia (collaborating performer, production midwife), 2018-2019
  • Choreographing LeWitt, choreography by Abigail Levine; score by Dave Ruder (spectacle engineer), 2015/2017
  • ikh hob dikh nokh nit gezen / i still haven’t seen you, movement with sensory masks and Yiddish song (choreographer/director, designer, performer), 2015
  • Angry Women REvisited, collaborative dance production, created and directed by J Dellecave (collaborating performer), 2013-2014
  • As Sugar Loaves Train Horses, choreography by Abigail Levine (production midwife & spectacle engineer), 2013
  • Distance Measures, choreography by Abigail Levine (production midwife & spectacle engineer), 2012-2013
  • MicroMiniMaxi Mystery Theater: En Total, dance spectacle, choreographed by J Dellecave (co-producer/production midwife, performer, additional writing and staging), 2012
  • Anonymous, monthly dance & performance party (instigator, co-impressario [with Ariel Speedwagon Federow], performer), 2008-2009
  • Dance Recycling Station, collaborative dance performance, devised by Abigail Levine (performer), 2009
  • Building Jacob’s Ladder, collaborative movement theater (co-creator, performer), 1998

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cabaret & body-based & site-specific work
  • [song, handshake, diagram], site-specific movement-based performance in three parts at Fort Tilden Park, co-created with Karolina Kubik (co-writer, co-choreographer, co-designer, performer), 2017
  • [lesbian body], smell-based cabaret performance with text by Monique Wittig (director, designer, performer), 2015
  • Rachel Says, solo cabaret performance with text and music by Lou Reed (director, designer, performer), 2014
  • Boxes, solo body-based performance with text by Kari Edwards (director, designer, performer), 2014
  • Tomb of the Unknown Pederast, participatory archival installation in Pop-Up Museum of Queer History: Pop-Up SoHo at the Leslie/Lohman Museum (designer, builder), 2012
  • Fashionable Places Out of Season (a little too much is just enough for me), archival installation with text and images by Carl Van Vechten in Pop-Up Museum of Queer History: Pop-Up SoHo at the Leslie/Lohman Museum (designer, builder), 2011
  • The Artist Is Absent, day-long event reperforming 16 works by Marina Abramović (instigator, co-curator [with Ariel Speedwagon Federow & Quito Ziegler], production designer, performer), 2010
  • entr’actions, solo puppet interventions (director, designer, performer), 2007
  • Heymshtot on the Hudson, solo theater for eavesdroppers (director, designer, performer), 2004

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straight [sic] theater
  • Won’t Be a Ghost, play with original choral music, created by Tight Braid Group (performer), 2015-2016
  • the greatest show on earth in a cardboard box, duo street performance spectacle, co-created with Ariel Speedwagon Federow (co-director, co-writer, designer, performer), 2014
  • Between Two Worlds, or, who loved you before you were mine, collaborative theater production, co-created with Ezra Berkeley Nepon & J Dellacave (co-director, designer, contributing writer, performer, co-producer), 2009-2010
  • dybbuk/between two worlds, collaborative theater production of Sh. Ansky’s tsvishn tsvey veltn (co-instigator, co-adaptor, co-producer, co-director [all with Sara Marcus], designer, performer), 1999
  • The Exception and the Rule, collaborative theater production of Brecht’s play, created with Acting Locals Conspiracy Theater for Revolution & Social Justice (co-creator, performer), 1997

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toy theater & tabletop object theater
  • Time Considered As a Helix of Semi-Precious Stones, viewer-operated toy theater diorama for Pop-Up Museum of Queer History: Queer Book Dioramas (designer, builder), 2014
  • a little ambiguity over there, solo toy theater production of 17 theater poems by Ruth Krauss (director, designer, performer), 2013
  • do not spare, toy theater production with text by Adonis, Frank O’Hara, Federico García Lorca, & Samuel R. Delany (director, designer, writer, performer), 2006-2010
  • The Murder of DeFarra “Dean” Gaymon as Told to His Killer’s Boss, solo peepshow production with text adapted from the New York Times (director, designer, writer, performer), 2010
  • Foretopman, or, HMS Handsome Pinafore, or, The Bugger’s Opera, or, The Last That Loved a Sailor, or, Hardly Ever, solo toy theater production with a song by Gilbert & Sullivan (director, designer, writer, performer), 2009
  • Momo, collaborative toy theater adaptation of the novel by Michael Ende, created with Andrea Lomonto & Nirit Ben-Ari (co-director, co-writer, co-producer, co-designer, performer), 2005
  • puttin’ on the agony, solo paper doll toy theater and costume-based puppetry with text from Craigslist personals (director, designer, writer, performer), 2004
  • Samson, solo object theater puppetry from a fragment by Federico García Lorca (director, writer, designer, performer), 2003
  • A. . . Abridged History of Housing on the Lower East Side, collaborative cardboard puppetry, created with Andrea Lomonto & Jabari Jones (co-director, co-writer, co-designer, performer), 2001
  • Every Which Way (boys listening to music in the twentieth century), solo puppetry and tape-splice score (director, writer, designer, performer), 2000

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spoken word cantatas
  • Fashionable Places Out of Season (Libertas Sine Labore / Amica Non Serva), spoken word cantata with archival projection performance, with text and images by Carl Van Vechten (director, designer, writer, performer), 2011
  • events and victims: a play in circumstantial evidence, spoken word cantata with movement & puppets, with text by Bartolomeo Vanzetti, Nicola Sacco, Alexander Berkman, Marc Blitzstein, and others (director, writer, designer, performer), 2003-2007

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design & production
  • Helps to Hate You a Little: a Lovestory, play written by Ella Boureau, directed by Jaki Bradley [2017] and Kate Moore Heaney [2019] (costume & set designer), 2017/2019
  • Pie Shop Play, play written by Alice Pencavel, directed by Sivan Battat (costume [with Milo] & puppet designer), 2019
  • Fully Functional Cabaret, cabaret production, created by Annie Danger and the cast (Northeast Tour lighting designer & technician), 2013
  • Itzik Manger’s Megile, Off-Broadway production by the National Yiddish Theater Folksbiene (spectacle engineer), 2013
  • Fame & Shame in the Lower East Side, six-production theater and performance series at the Petit Versailles Garden & Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center (co-producer, designer, technical director), 2011
  • Into the Neon, collectively curated gallery show, Chashama Chelsea Project Space (co-curator, co-designer), 2011
  • I.R.T.: A Tragedy in Three Stations, theater production by Jeff Stark (costume fabrication & run crew), 2009
  • Maggots & Men, film directed by Cary Cronenwett (costume fabrication & location shoot technician), 2005

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