PLAYWRIGHT
I often adapt books in the public domain into scripts for my students, and sometimes find more off-the-beaten-path inspirations for my works. Several productions have gone on to find life at other schools as well.
DRACUla
Based on Bram Stoker's novel and featuring many roles, this script has been produced by high schools in New York, Oklahoma, California, Washington, Illinois, and had its college production premiere this fall in Tucson, Arizona.
HELPLESS DOORKNOBS
Using Edward Gorey's cryptic, creepy deck of playing cards as a jumping off point, this collection of 22 scenes (shuffled and chosen at random by members of the audience) explores an extended family's attempt to connect, avert tragedy, and maybe fine true love in a world where time runs sideways and the family grandfather clock ate Uncle Angus.
A Journey to the West
An adaptation based on Wu Cheng'en's famous and fantastic story of trials and redemption. This story is as ubiquitous in Asia as it is unknown in the west. I've created two very different adaptations of this story in two very different schools, but it always
TITANIC 2: THE SEQUEL
In the long tradition of "rehearsal run amok" plays, this tale of mounting pressures on a megalomaniacal auteur was invited to perform at the North Carolina Professional Theatre Gathering in a year celebrating playwrights.
DARK IS A WAY,
LIGHT IS A PLACE
A collage piece mixing verbatim interviews, emergency transcripts, and folktales about fears both ancient and modern.
SHAKESPEARE cuttings
With the understanding of a maximal text vs. a playable text, I've cut and directed the following (often multiple times):
The Comedy of Errors, Richard III, The Winter's Tale, Much Ado About Nothing, King Lear, Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Cymbeline, Henry IV part 1, Julius Caesar, Henry V, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Twelfth Night, As You Like It, Pericles, Measure for Measure, and Hamlet.
THE TROJAN WOMEN
LITERARY ADAPTATIONS
An adaptation of Euripedes' tragedy.
THE LEARNED LADIES
A prose adaptation from Moliere's French original.
...AND MANY MORE
