current
2024
59 ACRES - a speculative soundwalk
A geolocated soundwalk in the form of a freely downloadable app to be experienced at La Jolla Playhouse and the UCSD Campus. .
Commissioned and presented by La Jolla Playhouses WOW Festival.
Available April 2024- June 2025
200 ACRES - a soundwalk through memories of wildness
A geolocated soundwalk in the form of a freely downloadable app to be experienced on the campus and the arboretum of Penn State University.
Commissioned and presented by Center for the Performing Arts at Penn State in association with the UCLA School of TFT.
Available July 2023- June 2025
YOU ARE HERE - a homebound travelogue
A virtual performance commissioned by La Jolla Playhouse’s Digital Without Walls Series
To watch a filmed version of the performance on the La Jolla Playhouse website, click here.
PAST PERFORMANCES & EVENTS
2021
32 ACRES - a soundwalk for the Los Angeles State Historic Park
A geolocated soundwalk in the form of a freely downloadable app to be experienced in the LA State Historic Park.
Commissioned and presented by Center Theater Group in association with the UCLA School of TFT.
July 14- September 29 2021
More info here.
I was featured with an interview about YOU ARE HERE in Caridad Svich’s new book Toward a Future Theatre, Conversations During a Pandemic. Bloomsbury, 2021.
The filmed version of YOU ARE HERE was selected as one of the international works at the Festival Internacional de Buenos Aires (FIBA), where it was screened from March 1-7, 2021.
I did a live streamed Q&A with Natalia Laube on the creation of YOU ARE HERE on 3/1/2021, co-hosted by La Jolla Playhouse and FIBA. Stream the conversation here.
I was a panelist at the California Center for Ethics and Policy at CalPoly Pomona on 2/24/2021. Stream the panel here.
2020
YOU ARE HERE - a homebound travelogue
Live online performances - August 6-16, 2020
Presented and commissioned by La Jolla Playhouse as part of the Without Walls Digital Series
AMONG US - UCLA
Los Angeles, CA / February - March 2020
Presented and commissioned by the Center for the Art of Performance
On the Other Side
Los Angeles, CA / February 21, 2020
Presented and co-commissioned by the Skirball Cultural Center
Don’t Look Back - a soundwalk for the purple Metro Line between Union Station and Wilshire/Western
Commissioned by LA Opera and presented by Metro Art
Available on ongoing basis starting January 15, 2020
2019
I participated in the panel What is citizenship? as part of the 10 Questions lecture series at UCLA. on November 26, 2019 in Glorya Kaufmann Hall at UCLA.
I hosted LAPP’s second edition of CASUAL, an evening of work in progress showing on November 19 at the Bootleg Theatre in Los Angeles..
Release of the book Tbilisi, It’s Complicated, co-edited with Nini Palavandishvili and Data Chigholashvili, published by Onomatopee.
Release of the article Touring San Francisco’s Chinatown, Collective memories and peripatetic performance, co-written with Sean Metzger, as part of the Routledge Companion to Theatre and Politics.
Residency at Skirball Cultural Center for the development of On the Other Side.
Los Angeles, CA / March 10-17, 2019
Residency at AUTOMATA through Los Angeles Performance Practice for the development of On the Other Side.
Los Angeles, CA / February 11-24, 2019
I was nominated as a finalist for Center Theater Group’s Sherwood Award.
2018
Residency at Art and Design Research Incubator at Penn State for the development of a new work, titled On the Other Side.
State College, PA / October 1 - 5, 2018
Nightmares of a Nation
Site specific exhibition co-curated with Marc Villanueva Mir
Giessen, Germany / May 30 - June 3
Presented by Theatermaschine in Giessen, Germany
Among Us Santa Monica
(director/creator)
Santa Monica, CA / April 7-8 and May 12-13.
Presented by Cultural Affairs Division of the City of Santa Monica.
Tickets and info here.
2017
Among Us Santa Monica
(director/creator)
Santa Monica, CA / November 4-5.
Presented by Cultural Affairs Division of the City of Santa Monica.
Among Us San Diego
(director/creator)
San Diego, CA / October 20-22.
Presented by Without Walls Festival/ La Jolla Playhouse.
Truck Tracks Ruhr - The Compilation
(contributor)
Zollverein, Germany / August 13 - September 30.
Presented by the Ruhrtriennale.
Nightmares of a Nation
Site specific exhibition co-curated with Marc Villanueva Mir
Berlin, Germany / May 18
Uferstudios. Developed as part of the International Forum Fellowship
2016
Reading by Moonrise
(director of staged reading)
Los Angeles, CA / October 16
Presented by Clockshop.
Truck Tracks Ruhr Dortmund
(contributor)
Dortmund, Germany / October 6 - November 5.
Presented by Urbane Kuenste Ruhr & Rimini Protokoll.
Among Us DTLA
(director/creator)
Los Angeles, CA / September 22 - October 2
Presented by Los Angeles Performance Practice / LAX Festival.
2015
Life on the Praça Roosevelt by Dea Loher
(director)
UCLA Little Theater, Los Angeles, CA / November 13-21.
Presented by UCLA Department of Theater.
Among Us Oerol
(director/creator)
Oerol Festival, The Netherlands / June 12-21
Presented by Oerol Festival.
2014
Winter Binnen Festival
(curator)
Amsterdam, The Netherlands / December 12-14.
Presented by Tolhuistuin & Broedstraten.
Dezerter Bazaar Soundwalk
(director/creator)
Tbilisi, Georgia / November 2014 - present.
Presented by Geoair.
Tussenland
(director/creator)
Amsterdam, The Netherlands / July 3-13.
Presented by Over het IJ Festival.
Facade Casablanca
(co-creator)
Casablanca, Morocco / April 5-6.
Presented by Anciens Abattoirs de Casablanca & Over het IJ Festival.
2013
Facade Amsterdam
(co-creator)
Amsterdam, The Netherlands / July 4-14.
Presented by Over het IJ Festival.
2012
Orpheus Descending by Tennessee Williams
(director)
Presented by the Winters Binnen Festival in Amsterdam, The Netherlands / December 15-16
Performed in situ in an operating bicycle shop with an upstairs living space.
The Police by Sławomir Mrożek
(director)
Presented by the Axis Festival in Assen, The Netherlands / September 15-16
Performed in the actual police station of the town.
Elders
(director/creator)
Oerol Festival, The Netherlands / June 15-24
Presented by Oerol Festival.
2011
Passage
(director/creator)
Winters Binnen Festival, Amsterdam, The Netherlands / December 15-16.
Presented by Winters Binnen Festival.
Passage
(director/creator)
Oerol Festival, The Netherlands / June 17 -26.
Presented by Oerol Festival.
2010
Behind These Walls
(director/creator)
Amsterdam, The Netherlands / September 3-12.
Presented by Amsterdam Fringe Festival.