Directing

CATS (2025)

A reimagined take on Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musical, this production set the story in 1946 London. The cast built out full backstories for their characters, giving renewed stakes to the script’s loose plot, and encouraging the audience to look more closely at the relationships between the cats. A warmly received production, and my return to Studio East under its new leadership.

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The Legacy of Sherwood Forest (2021)

A devised adaptation of the Robin Hood myth and its associated themes of class inequality, traveling between different locations within Morton Arboretum. Rehearsals involved adapting to the process previously used by the Walking Plays and Inkwell Arts, and the final product was truly a collaborative effort between everyone involved.

The Laramie Project (2021)

This radio adaptation provided a chance to teach sixteen youth actors about Matthew Shepard, and the circumstances around his death in 1998. The rehearsal process also focused on the underlying issues around homophobia – and indifference to homophobia – that still reverberate to this day.

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GROUPS OF TEN OR MORE PEOPLE (2020)

Co-directed with Gaby Labotka, this adaptation of Love’s Labour’s Lost was filmed over four months, entirely over Zoom. A modern-day work of “isolation theatre,” the play dealt with the struggles of companionship and the fear of loneliness, at the time when the world was feeling those struggles acutely. Act I was released in July 2020, and Act II presented as a virtual staged reading in August 2020.

Watch the full production on Littlebrain Theatre’s YouTube channel

DOUBLE VISION (2020)

A workshop process of a new sci-fi comedy. The six performers and the rehearsal team worked to take the script apart and put it back together, with scenes and songs changing nearly every week. The final production was warmly received by audiences, and helped writer Olivia Popp navigate her continued development of the script.

PETER PAN (2019)

My second project for Studio East, I worked with two casts of youth actors – 52 performers in total – to build a production that ran on childlike imagination. Incorporating tactics from poor theatre and found object work, as well as dramaturgy from 115 years of Peter Pan adaptations, the resulting production was fundamentally the actors’ own.

Bicycle Thieves (2019)

A devised adaptation of Vittorio De Sica’s acclaimed 1948 film. Told with a cast of nine performers and inspired by the Italian Neorealist movement, the piece looked at the fine line between what makes someone a good or bad person, and how societal factors can push people to act in ways they would never expect to.

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COPENHAGEN (2017)

My senior thesis at Northwestern University. A play about the line between memory and truth, staged simply with three chairs in a small blackbox. Presented with no fourth wall, the company brought a sense of joviality to an increasingly dire discussion of nuclear war.

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URINETOWN: THE MUSICAL (2016)

My first project directed for Studio East, this staging emphasized the Orwellian setting of the musical. The brutalist aesthetic served as a cautionary tale about polarity of opinion, that it can be just as dangerous to believe yourself to be entirely in the right as it is to believe your enemy to be entirely in the wrong.

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COMPANY: STUDIO EAST – KIRKLAND, WA

Author: Mark Hollman, Greg Kotis

MUSIC DIRECTOR: Kaysy Ostrom

Chroreographer: Marion Reader

Stage Manager: Christine Rattigan

Cast: 16 youth actors (ages 13-22)