I'm joining incredible theater artists Soomi Kim and Suzi Takahashi as their Assistant Director for the culminating production of CHANG(E) at HERE!

Fighting for global social transformation, performance artist and activist Kathy Change (formerly Kathleen Chang) was on a mission to save the world from disaster. As a final act of protest, she self-immolated on the campus of UPenn in October 1996. Chang(e) is a live-staged docudrama that slips between reality and fantasy, plunging viewers inside the mind of Kathy Change. Through a phantasmagorical blend of dance, text (interview and performance transcriptions and Change's own writings), video and original score, Change’s prescient defiance comes to life in this real life account of a modern day "Cassandra."

Devised in collaboration by
Soomi Kim and Suzi Takahashi

Performed by
Soomi Kim, Ben Skalski, Kiyoko Kashiwagi, David Perez-Ribada*, Criena House, Adi Spencer, and Zeke Stewart
Directed by Suzi Takahashi
Composed by Adam Rogers
Set by Bryce Cutler
Video by Kevan Loney
Lights by Lucrecia Briceno
Costumes by Machine Dazzle
Sound by Iggy Hung
Assistant Directed by Leta Tremblay
Choreography by Alexandra Beller
Stage Managed by Alex West
Photo Credit Benjamin Heller
Graphic design Adrian Ferbeyre
*Appears courtesy of Actors Equity Association

November 4-22
Wednesday Preview
Thursdays - Saturdays @ 8:30PM
Sundays @ 4PM

HERE Arts Center
145 6th Ave, NYC

TICKETS at $18
http://here.org/shows/detail/1696/

I'm directing Stephen Kaplan's new short play, Helen Keller Visits Martha Graham's Dance Studio as part of Project Y Theatre's 3rd New York New Playwright Festival (NYNP) with #ParityPlays, by the Project Y Playwrights Group, where the casts are 50% or more women! 

20 WRITERS. 9 NEW PLAYS.  
3 WORLD PREMIERE PRODUCTIONS.

"Project Y's New York New Playwright Festival (NYNPF) was created in 2011 with the focus on playwrights and development of new work. We want to break the endless cycle of readings that many plays get trapped in by giving writers a chance to see their work up and on its feet before an audience in a review-free, supportive environment. It is the goal of NYNPF to allow each piece in the festival the space to grow in front of an audience by providing writers with the tools to mount a workshop production of their new play and “test it” with
Project Y."

Helen Keller Visits Martha Graham’s Dance Studio
written by Stephen Kaplan  
directed by Leta Tremblay
featuring Madeline Chilese, Maia Karo, & Bethany Nicole Taylor
"Two giants face off over the nature of art."

PERFORMANCES of #ParityPlays:
Wednesday, October 21 at 8:30pm
Thursday, October 22 at 7pm

At The Cell (338 W. 23rd Street)

Tickets are available at  http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/2402185

Art Wife Mariah MacCarthy drew my name out of a hat and I'm directing again for Ensemble Studio Theatre's annual Youngblood Asking for Trouble festival!! Our task, to stage More Than One Way To Skin a Cat​, which just happened to be inspired by Reba McEntire's hit, "Does He Love You." Do yourself a favor and watch this music video.  

Do you smell that in the air?
It's not the whiff of pumpkin spice and fresh hay bales.
It's trouble. 
A ten minute play festival with 26 brand new plays over four separate nights of theatre - October 13-17th.
Only by the writers of EST/Youngblood.

More Than One Way To Skin A Cat
written by Mariah MacCarthy
directed by Leta Tremblay
featuring Patricia Randell & Ann Talman

Series C performs:
Wednesday, October 14 at 7pm
Friday, October 16 at 8:30pm
Saturday, October 17 at 5:00pm

Ensemble Studio Theatre
549 W 52nd Street, 2nd Floor

Click here for more info and tickets: www.ensemblestudiotheatre.org