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Playwriting 

Waxwing

We’re all falling.  Always have been.  It’s just a very long way down.  We can spend the whole time in a panic trying to make wings that will save us, but in the end they’ll only be made of wax.  

In a time and a place not unlike our own, a city is on the brink of collapse.  The lives of an agoraphobic writer, a fallen angel, and an errand girl with a talent for scaling heights are caught in a torrent of change with mythic (perhaps even apocalyptic) proportions.  Inside one man’s apartment, the ghosts of trains can be heard wandering the dark, the timing of a toaster holds the key to a toppling city’s balance, and the pen grows impossibly heavier… 

 

90 Minutes, 1f 1m, 1f/m

Premiered in 2012 with String House Theatre as part of Portland, Oregon's Fertle Ground Festival

...And the Great Refraction!

 

Shoot-outs on the dusty frontier, slights of hand, and a comet with the power to transform the ordinary into the spectacular…the spectre of a familiar director resurrected by the lonely flickering of a ghost light…a group of friends and a fictional rehearsal room not unlike our own…what is the performance and what is the truth?

 

…And the Great Refraction! is a love letter, an homage, and a behind the scenes invitation to the art form of the theatre.  Three layers of constantly evolving story–a rip-roaring adventure melodrama, the fictional company of actors creating and rehearsing it, and the individual 

voices of our own company breaking free of the fourth wall–all form the intricately faceted framework of a performance that aims to keep the audience constantly questioning where the real world ends and the show begins.  After all, are they not really one and the same?

 

This play was devised by an ensemble of actors, designers, and playwrights.  It was produced by String House Theatre and premiered in 2013.

Sidekicks (Season 1)

 

A four-part serial theatre piece produced by Action/Adventure Theatre, drawing on an equal blend of television-style episodic writing and improv comedy.  I was fortunate to be one of six staff writers working on this.

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