Director Lily Raabe and I are teaming up for the fourth time, for “Eaten Voices.” The inaugural production of “Eaten Voices,” directed by Lily, won best production in the Thespis Theatre Festival and $5000 in 2012.

After a run in Dixon Place, Manhattan, NY, and a staged reading in the Unheard Focus Festival 2015, a festival dedicated to ending sexual violence, at the The Bread & Roses Theatre with Goblin Baby Theatre Company, London, UK, I am so glad that this work will again be shared.

This piece will be performed site specifically, around a bonfire, as part of the Arts in Nature Festival, at Camp Long, in Seattle, WA this August.

Lily will again be using devised physical movement, dance, mask work, live music, and puppetry.  Ahmed Alabaca will again be performing his live, original composition on piano.

I am so teary-eyed and overjoyed to be working with this team of brilliant, dedicated, and beautiful artists!  This is a play near and dear to my heart and I feel so blessed to be sharing this piece again and to have the privilege of working with Lily and Ahmed!

Leona, a plucky young girl, is trapped in night, being followed by unknown creatures. She meets a child, a child who knows nothing, and decides that she must be the Moon’s Child. Together, they travel through night, a place of stories, song, dance, and mystery, heading towards day.  They meet a plethora of strange characters. As Leona approaches day, she begins to remember the trauma of her past and why she retreated into night.

(Excerpt original show)

(Ahmed making magic at the piano!)

The play “Poor People,” adapted from Fyodor Dostoevsky’s novel, that I have been writing for director Irene Kapustina this year, made it into the New York City Fringe Festival! Looking forward to seeing the production this summer and continuing to work with Irene, especially after the great work she did on the piece at The Drama League!

Poster Art by Cecilia Roberts

I will be performing a solo shadow puppetry piece as part of We Live by Revelation:  The Struggle of Art and Faith. The Sheen Center, 18 Bleecker Street, Manhattan, NY April 25, 2015,  Black Box Theater 8:00pm Tickets are $20 We Live by Revelation addresses the space that artists must enter to when searching for honesty within their work, maintaining transparency as creators, and the sacred parts of life.  The show will include display of visual art, as well as spoken word, performative art, and written work.

Out of 600 entries spanning the globe, my short play, “Darn It Darla,” will be part of the Third Annual One Act Festival at Phoenix Stage Company.

June 18, 19, 20 & 21, 2015

At Clockwork Repertory Theater, Naugatuck, CT

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Happy to be writing again for another 24 Hour Play Festival with the award-winning A Rising Sun Performance Company.

Horse TRADE Theater Group Presents
A Rising Sun Performance Company Production
Theatre Mash Up! SECRETS
6 Plays created & presented in 24 Hours.

Sat, April 11

Doors open for Seating at 6:45 PM
Show begins at 7PM
There will be one intermission

Using anonymous submissions and the App “Whispers” RSP will curate real life secrets into plays.

The Kraine Theatre
85 East 4th St (Between 2nd Ave and Bowery),

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I will be one of three women artists working on NovelSpace, based on The Grapes of Wrath, by John Steinbeck.  I love Steinbeck’s humanist lens and commitment to representing the marginalized and downtrodden.  This work is so relevant and this immersive experience should be really mindful and beautiful!  I hope I can share the work with you!

Chapter 1 of NovelSpace: “Two Midnights in a Jug,” an installation based on The Grapes of Wrath.

Dates are April 29 – May 4

The installation will be hosted by Brooklyn Fire Proof

NovelSpace interprets great American novels & creates art installations in relevant urban spaces to inspire our audience through exploration, interaction & ambiance.

For the reader, every novel is a personal experience. That’s why every NovelSpace is inspired by someone’s interpretation. So whether you’ve read it a hundred times or you’ve never heard of it, no one leaves a NovelSpace without a fresh perspective.

If you would like to support the project:

NovelSpace Fractured Atlas

Here are some of the masks;

Photography/Masks: Lavinia Roberts

Models: Adriana Jones, Jennifer Stepanyk

Sculpture: Chris Marshall

Costumes: Ben Philipp

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Cecilia Roberts and I will be the featured visual artists at the Bayou-n-Brooklyn Cajun Music Festival this year.  We will be drawing musicians, selling prints and posters, as well as, exhibiting our work in the space.  Looking forward to lively music, tasty cuisine, expanding my creative village, and spending time with my favorite visual artist, my big sister Cecilia!

Jalopy Music Theatre, Brooklyn

315 Columbia Street Between, Hamilton & Woodhull, Brooklyn, NY

 Poster by Cecilia Roberts

Honored to be a part of The Moral Injury Project at 914 Works, at Syracuse University, in April 2015.  An exhibition, conversation, and community gathering worthy of our mental space and mindful attention!

The Moral Injury Project at Syracuse University formed in Summer 2014 after a gathering of academics, administrators, researchers, religious scholars, veterans, professors, chaplains, and mental health providers addressed the question: What are we doing about moral injury among US military veterans?

The Moral Injury Project explores “the damage done to one’s conscience or moral compass when that person perpetrates, witnesses, or fails to prevent acts that transgress their own moral and ethical values or codes of conduct.”

The opening is April 17th, from 5 to 9,  914 East Genesse Street, Syracuse.

A big THANK YOU, to Karin Crighton and Alex Kafarakis for performing in “Eternal Flowers,” which will be available as audio as part of the exhibition.

Here is an interview about the body of work I created at The League Residency last March featured in District Lit.  Thank you Diana Smith Bolton!

My very dear friend and long time colloborater Irene Kapustina and I collaborated to adapt to the stage Fyodor Dostoevsky’s epistolary novel, “Poor People.”  Irene will be doing a director residency with the The Drama League Rough Draft Series this March. Excited to see this piece on its feet and more of Irene’s peerless work. Join us March 13th, 2015 for the reading!

Poster design by Cecilia Roberts