In her book Making Our Future, folklorist Emily Hilliard defines folklore as “the art of everyday life—creative practices we learn by living our lives, …all the ways a group expresses itself creatively, manifesting in foodways, dance, music, language, stories, jokes, memes, dress, craft, and material culture.” In this sense, my theater is folkloric. When I make a play, I work with a group of people to build a little world, with its own particular customs, aesthetics, physical and linguistic vocabularies. The performance is an expression of that world. When you attend the performance, you visit the world we have built.
I live in Philadelphia. I make plays with people. I care about collectivity, collaboration, and process. I am concerned with presence and liveness. Performance is a local process and I am here for it.
I have made plays at the Arden, InterAct, Azuka, Headlong, Orbiter 3, Quintessence, The Flea, and with Adriano Shaplin, Kristin Linklater, MK Tuomanen, John Jarboe, Michael Kiley, Annie Wilson, Cynthia Hopkins, Emily Bate, and The Private Theatre. I am a founding company member of Applied Mechanics.