Endgame
April 24-27, 2013
Sidney & Berne Davis Art Center
Fort Myers
Ghostbird Theatre Company presents Samuel Beckett's Endgame, with Barry Cavin, Armando Rivera, and Rachel Bennett. I get to sit in a garbage can and contemplate the trousers of the world. It's classic Beckett.
Fool for Love
February 13-27, 2013
FGCU Theater Lab
Fort Myers
I play the Old Man in Sam Shepard's masterpiece.
Thistletoe Cabaret
6:00-9:00 p.m., Saturday, December 15, 2012
FGCU Theater Lab
Fort Myers
I sing, I dance, and I perform a monologue for a benefit for the FGCU Eagle Theatre, FGCU's theatre club.
The Pumpkin Grower
September 26-30, 2012
Sidney & Berne Davis Art Center
Fort Myers
Ghostbird Theatre Company's first "official" production, my play, directed and choreographed by Brittney Brady and featuring Rachel Bennett, Jake Scott-Hodes, Dana Lynn Frantz, Dayanira Lopez, Michael Lee Bridges, and Jonathan Lawrence (and his amazing violin), with original soundscape by Phil Heubeck. I play Venus. I do magic. I sing. I do mischief in this play that is a performative romance, which lifts and recasts the story of Byblis and Caunus in Ovid's Metamorphoses.
Turn it little by little.
24 Hour Festival
8:00 p.m., Saturday, September 10, 2012
FGCU Theater Lab
Fort Myers
Performances, film, and artwork produced by FGCU students faculty, all created within a 24-hour period following a set of prompts and narrative.
Mud
May 23-27, 2012
Sidney & Berne Davis Art Center
Fort Myers
Ghostbird Theatre Company's first production, a play by Obie-awarding winning Irene Maria Fornes, directed by Brittney Brady and featuring Armando Rivera and Katelyn Gravel, with original music by Phil Heubeck. I play the interloper, Henry. He's a bad man.
With You, I Will Bring Them Some Light
April 20-21
Foulds Theatre, Alliance for the Arts
Fort Myers
A dance choreographed by Lori Madl and Lauren LaPatin, for which I read my own lyrics as their music.
Faustus Burns Brightly
April 4-14, 2012
FGCU Theater Lab
Fort Myers
An original play written and directed by Barry Cavin. I play Lucifer, who gets to shout in Latin and who wears the most fabulous, clingy dress (with a train!).
Thistletoe Cabaret
6:00-9:00 p.m., Saturday, December 17, 2011
FGCU Theater Lab
Fort Myers
I sing, I dance, and I perform a monologue, "A Solstice Kiss," for a benefit for the FGCU Theater Department and its efforts to bring Wooden Mouth to the Edinburgh International Fringe Festival.
Three Sisters
November 9-20, 2011
FGCU Theater Lab
Fort Myers
I play Ferapont, the kindly, slightly deaf, avuncular secretary in the Chekov drama. Watch me knit a 20-foot scarf.
Shake the Bees!
24 Hour Festival
8:00 p.m., Saturday, September 10, 2011
FGCU Theater Lab
Fort Myers
Performances, film, and artwork produced by FGCU students faculty, all created within a 24-hour period following a set of prompts and narrative.
Paler than Grass
June 15-19, 2011
FGCU Theater Lab
Fort Myers
A full-length performance piece written by the talented Brittney Brady and directed by Barry Cavin.
Collaborative Arts Experiment
April 1, 2011
Alliance for the Arts
Fort Myers
A collaborative arts celebration and fund raiser for the Arts in Healthcare Program, an event founded and organized by Katelyn Gravel. Katelyn has expanded the program and is bringing in more students for service-learning credit to participate. It's a worthwhile, celebratory affair.
ArtPoems 2011February-March 2011
BIG ARTS and Alliance for the Arts
This is an event, now in its fifth year, that Lorraine Vail and Joe Pacheco founded, and now co-chaired by Pam Brodersen. It's a collaborative project between artists and poets, each creating new work inspired by poems and artworks by the same group of artists and poets. This year, I was able to create a poem in response to David King's watercolor, Sharp-Lobed Hepatica, and the ceramicist Andi McCarter created a piece in response to my poem, "Dresses: Ingrid, 1966" (featured here).
Agamemnon
February 16-27, 2011
FGCU Theater Lab
Fort Myers
I play, along with Brittney Brady, Dana Jenkins, and Veda Roberts, the role of the Chorus. Specifically, I am the "Old Man of Argos." This is a newly translated version of the Aeschylus tragedy by the Canadian poet Anne Carson.
Thistletoe Cabaret
6:00-9:00 p.m., Saturday, December 11, 2010
FGCU Theater Lab
Fort Myers
I sing, I dance, and I perform a monologue, "Comet over California," for a benefit for the FGCU Theater Department and its efforts to bring Wooden Mouth to the Edinburgh International Fringe Festival.
Art Royale 2010
It's All Elemental
6:00 p.m., Saturday, November 2010
Alliance for the Arts
Fort Myers
Art Royale affords artists the unique opportunity to push their limits and create beyond gallery walls and theatre stages to interact with participants through theatre, costume, dance, music, film, voice, painting, photography, fashion, sculpture, technology, culinary and multi-media. This year’s theme, IT’S ALL ELEMENTAL reflects the essence of Art Royale as an innovative showcase of art that is active, not passive, art that explores the origins and boundaries of the elements, be it, Earth, Wind, Fire, Water & Space or perhaps more.
For this piece, I worked with Katelyn Gravel, Phil Heubeck, and Brittany Brady for an exhaustion performance piece: "Decomposition."
Questions for the Altar Machine
24 Hour Festival
8:00 p.m., Saturday, September 11, 2010
FGCU Theater Lab
Fort Myers
Performances, film, and artwork produced by FGCU students faculty, all created within a 24-hour period following a set of prompts and narrative.
Salvage
8:00 p.m., Friday, May 21, 2010
Sidney & Berne Davis Arts Center
Fort Myers
A dance and transmedia performance featuring the Alcye Bochette Dancers. Choreographed by Alyce Bochette. Alyce created a dance based on a poem I wrote for this event, and Katie Pankow and I will perform the poem with the dancers.
Wooden Mouth
April 7-19, 2010
FGCU Theater Lab
Fort Myers
A world premiere of Barry Cavin's rich and beautiful play. I play Mr. Scratch, a happy, tap-dancing devil. I wear tails. I scare three-year-old girls. I scream. I sing. I laugh. But I don't cry. Not me. And I give wise counsel to the heroine. Featuring the exceptionally talented Katelyn Gravel, Brittney Brady, Brad Chidester, Dan De La Rosa, Taylor Broderick, Andy Morris, and Katie Pankow. No animals were harmed in the making of this production. Dolls maybe, but only psychological scarring.
The above clip is just right before Act II, backstage with the actors, wrangling the talking catfish and getting in our play groove.
Collaborative Arts Experiment
March 21, 2010
Nita's Sweet Bean Cafe
Fort Myers
A collaborative arts celebration and fund raiser for the Arts in Healthcare Program, an event founded and organized by Katelyn Gravel. For this project, I collaborated with visual artist musician Phil Heubeck, poets Diego Fernandez and Allison Brietenstine, and dancer Angela Hicks, working over one week to create a video-based, music, poetry, and dance performance.
ArtPoemsJanuary-May 2010
BIG ARTS and other venues
Sanibel and beyond
This is an event, now in its fourth year, that Lorraine Vail and Joe Pacheco founded. It's a collaborative project between artists and poets, each creating new work inspired by poems and artworks by the same group of artists and poets. This year, I was able to create a poem in response to Ellie Glause's painting, Shuttered Light (featured here), and the artist Joshua Meyer created a mixed media painting in response to my poem, "Planting Lettuces in the Dark."
my whale, the birds: a transmedia autoperformance
FGCU Theater Lab
December 5, 2009
A solo piece of music, dance, umbrella sculpture, light, fabric, poetry, still image, found sounds, recorded voice, song, and video. I wrote it, produced it, and performed it through a workshop led by Michelle Hayford.
