Every 28 Hours - Goodman Theatre

“Every 28 Hours” is a project produced by the Oregon Shakespeare Festival under the leadership of Claudia Alick  and The One-Minute Play Festival with Dominic D’Andrea, in association with local St. Louis theater maker and producer Jacqueline Thompson. Every 28 Hours is a national partnership focused on the widely shared and contested statistic that every twenty-eight hours a black person is killed by vigilante, security guard, or the police in the United States. The Every 28 Hours Plays consist of 72 one-minute plays inspired by the Black Lives Matter movement, with participation from artists across the nation.

I was proud to participate by directing one-third of the evening's plays.

As Is - About Face Theatre and Art Aids America

About Face Theatre presented a series of readings of HIV/AIDS focused plays to provide a retrospective look at how theatre artists have addressed the devastating health crisis throughout the decades, including: William Hoffman’s As Is, which I directed.

As Is, William Hoffman’s landmark Drama Desk-winning and Tony-nominated play, was among the first to explore how the AIDS pandemic affected the LGBT community.  The play tells the story of a man’s life turned on its head after he is diagnosed with AIDS – who he turns to, who turns away from him, and how the world reacts to the beginning of the crisis.

Girls Drink For Free by Grace McLeod

GIRLS DRINK FOR FREE strikes thoroughly into the ever-present issue of sexual assault on campus.  GIRLS DRINKS FOR FREE explores the stigmatized, sensationalized leviathan of an extremely publicized rape case. The play takes on the varying perspectives of such a case. It showcases the rampant hypocrisy and selfishness of its characters, with an overarching focus on an inherently flawed system.